Chamber Updates & Local News

By Business Data Lab |  Apr. 16, 2024 “Today, after weeks of pre-budget spending announcements on housing, defense, artificial intelligence and more, the government finally answered the questions of “how much will this all cost? And who’s going to pay for it?”. Text originally published at: Business Data Lab Budget 2024 puts the total bill…

By Deborah Aarts |  Mar 26, 2024 Renowned pollster Nik Nanos shares how business leaders can draw insight out of information Text originally published at: Smith Business Insight Queen’s Nik Nanos cares what people think. In fact, he’s built his whole career on it. Nanos is the founder and chief data scientist of Nanos Research, a prolific Toronto-headquartered…

The nominees have been announced for the Kingston Business Awards 2024, presented by title sponsor MNP LLP, partner sponsor Bell and organized by the Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce. Across the ten award categories, there are 49 nominees, including: Hospitality, presented by Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Ltd.: Frontenac Club, Improbable Escapes, Italo-Canadian Club of Kingston, and…

By Deborah Aarts | Mar 5, 2024 A panel of experts shares how to make your workplace better for women and non-binary people – right now Text originally published at: Smith Business Insight Queen’s Here’s the good news: Almost everyone with a successful career in business today gets the value of gender diversity at work. At the very least, they…

Report from Canadian Chamber of Commerce highlights the persistent barriers for women in management, leadership, and entrepreneurship. [OTTAWA] – [March 5, 2024] – The Canadian Chamber of Commerce released a new report Tuesday, showing that while Canada has made some positive strides in advancing equality for women in business, there is much work to be…

New report from the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council projects job vacancies will surpass 100,000 by 2030 At a time when Canadian agriculture continues to struggle with a chronic worker shortage, new data from the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) has found that by the year 2030, there will be more than 100,000 vacant…

Social media is a great channel for communication and relationships between businesses and their customers. To do a good job, you need to be connected to the trends in this universe and develop work that represents your company to your customers. Here we highlight 5 trends for social media from Hootsuite’s Social Media Trends 2024…

By Nick Chater | Jan 25, 2024 Three simple brain biases can help us understand what’s behind so many errors in judgment Text originally published at: Smith Business Insight Queens The human brain is an incredibly sophisticated biological system for continuously processing new information and determining what to do. But while it generally works amazingly well, our brains are…

By Rebecca Harris | Jan 3, 2024 Endless interruptions, a lack of focus time and all those emails keep us from getting stuff done at work Text originally published at: Smith Business Insight Queens While working in management consulting, Ann Gomez noticed some people who handled heavy workloads and had great personal lives. They socialized! They slept! Others struggled to…

Continued Advocacy and Support for Small Businesses Post-CEBA Deadline Dear OCC Members, I am writing to you today with deep concern after hearing from members about small businesses that missed the final Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) deadline. As President and CEO, I want to assure you that the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) has…