Vancouver home prices fall 9% from their highs, creating opportunities for investors and first-time buyers amid shifting market dynamics.

Residential building permits fall sharply as developers retreat amid rising costs and weak demand, signaling a national construction slowdown.

With 36 years’ experience building businesses and guiding export growth, Rob Arthurs leads the WBN Tariff Edition, helping companies navigate tariffs, trade policy, and global markets with actionable news, insights, and strategic expertise.

Tariffs are hitting small businesses in Canada, the U.S., and worldwide, forcing owners to adapt to rising costs and supply chain chaos. Today’s top stories reveal the pressures and resilience of entrepreneurs in a turbulent 2025.

Markets wobble on fresh global shocks, SMBs ramp up AI hiring, Canada unveils new tax breaks for digital businesses, the Fed stands firm on rates, and Europe’s retailers shift to local sourcing. Here’s what matters most for small business leaders today.

For generations, Canada has been a place of hope, courage, and reinvention. For newcomers, for Indigenous Peoples, for families, for dreamers, for doers. But in the noise of the modern world, it’s easy to forget just how extraordinary that is.

Canada—two countries that share a border but couldn’t be more different when it comes to business

Take Fridays, for example. Back in London, Friday is an extension of Thursday and there to the end. Here, "Are you busy?" means “Let’s hit the slopes,” given that it's only 15 minutes from downtown.