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Statistics Canada reviews $1.5 billion merchandise commerce surplus for April – Enterprise Information

Commerce surplus shrinks

The Canadian Press – | Story: 371131

Statistics Canada says the nation’s merchandise commerce surplus fell to $1.5 billion in April as each imports and exports hit file highs, helped larger by rising costs.

The company says the end result in contrast with revised surplus of $2.3 billion in March.

Whole imports in April rose 1.9 per cent to $62.8 billion as imports of client items gained 5.5 per cent with the clothes, footwear and equipment subcategory up 24.2 per cent.

In the meantime, whole exports gained

Regional Council approves 2023 Property Tax Supported Business Plans and Budget
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Regional Council approves 2023 Property Tax Supported Business Plans and Budget

Whitby, Ont – Durham Regional Council has approved the 2023 Property Tax Supported Business Plans and Budget.

The 2023 Property Tax Supported Business Plans and Budget totals $1.9 billion in gross expenditures, requiring a 2023 tax levy of approximately $817.4 million. This represents a proposed net property tax increase of 5.2 per cent, or approximately $153 for the average residential home with an assessed value of $483,100.

The Region is investing in critical frontline core service areas; advancing the implementation of the Strategic Plan; addressing the continued financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a number of Regional services; meeting

All You Really Need to Launch a Business, According to This Art Book Entrepreneur
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All You Really Need to Launch a Business, According to This Art Book Entrepreneur

In this ongoing series, we are sharing advice, tips and insights from real entrepreneurs who are out there doing business battles on a daily basis. (Answers have been edited and condensed for clarity.)

Who are you and what’s your business?

My name is Kim Bjørn, designer, musician, author, and CEO and founder of Bjooks, a Danish boutique publishing company, operating worldwide creating hardcover books on music technology, artists, and makers. Since 2017 we’ve published only seven titles, but have sold tens of thousands of them all over the world, to world-renowned recording artists as well as hobby musicians, students, and

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San Benito Healthcare District Presents Business Plan for Future at Intergovernmental Commission Meeting


HOLLISTER, Calif.

,

Feb. 17, 2023

/PRNewswire/ — Representatives from San Benito Healthcare District (the District), which operates Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital (HHMH), detailed the District’s business plan this week to an Intergovernmental Committee comprised of

San Benito County

leaders.

“The business plan for the District is to find a strategic partner or sell some or all of the District’s facilities to a larger health care system,” said

Seth Freeman

, Managing Director of B. Riley Advisory Services, a national firm hired by the District to help with its turnaround. “To date, the District contacted more than one hundred organizations

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Volunteer mentor helping prospective entrepreneurs in the Rumford area

George Kimball of Gray, longtime volunteer mentor with the Service Corps of Retired Executives, works March 1 in his office on Lowell Street in Rumford. For more than 20 years, the retired Rumford paper mill chemical engineer has been assisting aspiring small business owners. Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times

RUMFORD — George Kimball travels from his home in Gray to Rumford most weeks to mentor aspiring small business owners as a volunteer with the Service Corps of Retired Executives.

His favorite part is the personal relationships developed “with people who have dreams and want to make plans to get ahead. In

Technology companies are proving to be the great equalizer
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Technology companies are proving to be the great equalizer

[Part 1 of a 12-Part Series]

Healthcare is rife with significant challenges that can in some cases be minimized at the very minimum and in most cases be eliminated by the use of technology. The 12-part series begins by elaborating on macro-level challenges that the healthcare industry is starting to address with technology to stem the bleeding/reverse the onset of more severe complications.

Challenge 1: Supply and demand

Healthcare service delivery provisioning across the globe is starkly marked by the lack of adequate supply of qualified clinicians and specialists. This situation has been significantly exacerbated in the post pandemic new

This chef is making a few of LA’s finest kombucha from ‘ugly’ fruit, serving to farmers alongside the way in which
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This chef is making a few of LA’s finest kombucha from ‘ugly’ fruit, serving to farmers alongside the way in which

Waste Not — sustainability in food

ONGOING SERIES

Conversations about meals, the setting and our future.

Balo Orozco’s freezer is stuffed with nectarines. Properly, considered one of them is. The opposite is stuffed with plums. At his industrial kitchen in South LA, the chef is fermenting 100 kilos of chiles in orange juice. He is evenly simmering berries to make kombucha. He is scooping up extra unsold or “ugly” vegetables and fruit from native farms and reimagining them into a few of LA’s most inventive kombuchas, scorching sauces and condiments by Sundown Cultures, his pandemic-spurred challenge that is taken on a retail lifetime of its personal.

Enterprise Plan for 2023
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Enterprise Plan for 2023

Writing a marketing strategy is a crucial a part of any enterprise. In spite of everything, it helps you determine your organization’s imaginative and prescient and mission whereas clarifying precisely how you propose to develop. It may well additionally assist create a extra work-life steadiness at dwelling in case you have a plan to your work. In addition to detailing your corporation’s total technique, you may embrace info reminiscent of how a lot cash you count on to make within the first yr and what number of staff you propose on hiring through the preliminary phases.

Whether or not you