Navigating an Uncertain Future for Businesses in 2021

Canadian small business

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2020 showed us how quickly the world can change. In just a few months, the global pandemic transformed the way we live, work, shop, and connect with each other. With a continued focus on public health and as many of us adapt to restrictions in place across Canada, we must brace ourselves for another year […]

Sisters Sage is just getting started

Sisters Sage

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This series was brought to you in paid partnership with Facebook Canada [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]“I  really want to share this story because I don’t want women, especially Indigenous women, to feel like they’re stuck. You don’t have to be stuck in your toxic work culture or toxic relationships. There are options. You can get out. You […]

The Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce and Facebook Canada Just Launched a $500,000 Grant Program

Black-owned businesses

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce (CBCC) and Facebook Canada have come together to launch a new grant program designed to assist Black-owned businesses that were heavily impacted by COVID-19. Facebook Canada is contributing $500,000 to the CBCC to support the national grant program, which is available via online application for all Black Canadian entrepreneurs.  […]

Entrepreneur of the Week: How Bohten Eyewear Founder, Nana Boateng Osei, Harnessed Ecommerce to Survive COVID-19

Bohten

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This series was brought to you in paid partnership with Facebook Canada. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Osei discusses how digital integration has grown his business in the midst of the pandemic. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Developing an eyewear brand doesn’t necessarily make you a crusader committed to tackling the changing rates of vision loss around the world. Nana Boeteng Osei, however, […]

From The Archives: Canadian Change Maker, Chris Wylie, On Facebook and Protecting Democracy

Facebook

Chris Wylie, the Canadian whistleblower at the center of the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook data scandal, knows that democracy is a fragile and vulnerable privilege that Western societies take for granted. After all, the 29-year-old is said to be responsible for creating targeted campaigns of disinformation, which convinced the United Kingdom to leave the European Union and […]