Work can be stressful in any industry, whether your team is tackling a new project, changing to accommodate new clients or new management, scrambling under tight deadlines, or sometimes, just going through the daily grind. When you add in rising inflation, living expenses, and life uncertainty, there can be a lot eating away at everyone’s calm and composure.
Karen Hawthorne
Our New Best Friend for Life – And Health
Fido the Robot?
We’re at the tipping point of a health crisis. Not because there haven’t been incredible advances in prevention and treatment, but because the risk of so many ailments hugely increases as people age. It just does—and there are more of us aging, despite our efforts to stay young and vibrant.
Davey Textile Solutions
A Shiny New Future for Textiles in Alberta
First responders at a traffic accident at night not only have to act quickly to save lives, they also face the danger of oncoming cars while they do it.
GreenStep
Supporting Sustainability for Smaller Businesses
When Angela Nagy was 18, she was hired to coordinate grants to build an interpretive greenway trail along Mission Creek in Kelowna, British Columbia, about four and a half hours northeast of Vancouver. The aim was to protect the ecosystem of the creek and support community learning about native species, history, and conservation.
The Comeback on the High Seas
Cruising Along
Ready to see sunsets and starry skies from your floating oasis on the water?
City of Mission, B.C.
The Real Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name
As the familiar real estate saying goes: location, location, location. The City of Mission, British Columbia has a prime location and a lot to offer businesses and individuals looking for natural beauty and a great community vibe.
Changing Consumer Trends
The New Normal
We’ve been through a lot. COVID took pretty much everything we’d taken as normal for decades and turned it all on its ear in little more than a couple of months – and kept things that way for two years.
Women Driving Economic Recovery
Entrepreneurs by Necessity
Is a “she-covery” possible as we bounce back from COVID-related job and economic losses?
The Shifting Workplace
Pandemic Reset
For a lot of us, the pandemic has shown that there are more important things in life than climbing the corporate ladder and bringing home big dollars. The uncertainties and challenges of lockdowns have had people rethinking their connection to work, how they work, where they work – and what they do for a living.
Scaling for Success
Black Entrepreneurs
In this month, we look at the history, the contributions and the achievements of the Black community in North America. Getting ahead in business can be an uphill battle at the best of times, and when one is faced with additional challenges of inequality in the form of wealth gap, lack of privilege, and outright racism, the struggle for success for an entrepreneur – especially a Black one – can be daunting.
Chasing Talent in a Vibrant New Economy
Workforce Reset
What happens when growing demand meets shrinking workforce? This has been the reality for a number of sectors, including manufacturing – even in a pandemic. With the workforce largely approaching retirement, employers are under real pressure to find skilled workers in the face of unrelenting product demand.
How Work-From-Home Employees Get More Done
Office Productivity
Office work is so 2019.
The Greater San Marcos Partnership
The New Sweet Spot for Emerging Industries
Got an innovative organization? These San Marcos, Texas ingredients will set it up for growth: strategic location, skilled workforce, new recruit pipeline, affordable living amongst beautiful amenities. And how about the famously delicious pies, or crystal-clear rivers?
City of St. Thomas, ON
How a Small Canadian City Kept Business and Growth Alive During the Pandemic
Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of headlines about doom and gloom through COVID-19, but there are some good news stories. No question, the pandemic has been a challenging time for mental health, weathering all the uncertainty and following the protocols of masking to keep contagion at bay. But the people of St. Thomas, a small railway city in southwestern Ontario two hours from Detroit, are a resilient bunch.
How Tech-Driven is Your Office?
Super Smart
Check out any high production science fiction movie and you can always tell that it’s set in the future – not because of how people are dressed or how they talk, but because of all those futuristic features that the buildings and spacecraft have.
How Healthy and Safe is Your Food?
Gut Instinct
You’ve sanitized your hands and got your mask on, but what’s going through your mind as you roll your grocery cart along the produce displays and the refrigerated meat selections?
Battery Solutions
Powering New Manufacturing Opportunities
In the past, batteries ended up in landfills or banished to boxes in the basement and forgotten. But today, as a new awareness has revealed the environmental fallout of used batteries, recycling has become the option for battery disposal going forward.
Kendrick, Inc.
This Family Timber Business Puts Hope on Your Wall
Going through COVID has been a test of will for businesses across the country. For Kendrick, Inc. in particular, it’s reinforced the importance of being part of the community and helping people out.
The Rise of Localization
Business Within the Border
What do the automobile and meat-packing plants have in common? The answer: Henry Ford.
TSI Global Companies
Wowing Clients with Video Walls and Digital Whiteboards
The St. Louis Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans in 1999’s Super Bowl. The St. Louis Cardinals swept the San Diego Padres to win the 2006 World Series. And in 2019, the St. Louis Blues beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 for their first Stanley Cup. What do these champions have in common?
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