According to a recent report from compensation consulting firm Eckler Ltd., the average salary increase across Canada is expected to be 4.2 per cent in 2023. That is the biggest increase in 20 years and welcome news to anybody struggling financially due to inflation or high interest rates in these post-pandemic years. However, business owners […]

As this contribution was being crafted on Wednesday, Hurricane Ian had not quite reached Category 5 status as its winds and rain were already hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast, with devastating storm surge. Numbers such as Cat 4 or 5 mean nothing in the clean-up afterwards and how bad that is in Florida remained to be […]

A popular term being thrown around social media these days is “quiet quitting,” by those who don’t actually quit their jobs, but seek a better work-life balance by not going beyond their job descriptions and not do anything extra at work. The term appears to have come from the Covid-19 pandemic among workers who feel […]

We went past the midway point of September last week and just concluded the final week of official summer. There’s a bit of colour on the trees where I live and there have been a few chilly mornings, but there have also been plenty of summer-like days this month, enough to belie the fact that […]

  The Bank of Canada jacked up its trendsetting interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point last Wednesday to 3.25 per cent. That alone may be enough for a business to put the brakes on any capital expenditure, but even if it does have the available cash and doesn’t need a loan or the […]

The leaves haven’t begun to turn, not yet anyway, but there is a nip in the morning air. The high school/university students who worked as seasonal staff just a few short weeks ago are back in class. Labour Day is over and summer is winding down, with September quite likely the final full month of […]

We’re into the final week before Labour Day, that time of year when golf begins changing like the leaves. It’s a slow process, but it won’t be long until you start to notice the fall colours around the golf course, where there will also be fewer people around than at the peak of the season. […]

Nobody wants to be the person to bring this up, but you know anyway that the peak of Canadian golf season is beginning to wind down. The calendar says that September is just over a week away and a sure sign is that high school and university students who worked at your golf business over […]

The good news is that the inflation rate for July in Canada fell to 7.6 per cent, according to Statistics Canada, and it’s the first time that there’s been a decrease from the previous month in a year. That’s your happy thought for the day, but it might be wise to put any celebrations on […]

In early May, the GNN Poll asked readers how close they are to retiring from the golf industry. A great majority, or 58 per cent, said they planned to retire within five years, with another 22 per cent in six to 10 years. Another seven per cent expected to end their careers in 11 to […]