CanadianSME Small Business Magazine August 2021

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NEWS

BMO Extends Wellness Services to Canadian Business Owners and Entrepreneurs BMO has been a major proponent of championing mental health in the workplace, providing resources and support, and seeing it as part of someone’s overall health,” said Mike Bonner, Head, Canadian Business Banking, BMO Bank of Montreal. “We saw the challenges and strain that the pandemic was putting on clients and recognized that, in order to help businesses thrive, we needed to do more than just support them financially. We’re providing our wellness services to our clients to support Canada’s main street businesses more holistically.

Moneris partners with tiptap to offer touchless giving™ for non-profits and charities We’re excited to be working with tip-tap, a great Canadian scale-up that helps non-profits and charities help others,” says Malcolm Fowler, Chief Strategic Partnership Officer, Moneris. “The payments industry has made great strides in improving and expanding contactless payments to better protect Canadians during the pandemic. However, a convenient technological equivalent to support charities and non-profits has been a gap. tiptap has really created a solution that will help charities continue to raise funds for their important work.

What Canadian Businesses Should Consider When Expanding to Singapore

Nespresso Voted World’s Most Sustainable Coffee Company Sustainability is at the heart of what we do. I’m proud of the achievements we have already made in scaling sustainable coffee farming and recycling provision, in enabling industry-wide capsule recycling, in reducing the Nespresso carbon footprint per cup and in agroforestry efforts in the coffee-producing regions. I am very happy to see these recognized by the World Finance Magazine. Innovation and collective actions will help us accelerate in this decisive decade. Businesses must be part of the solutions and Nespresso will continue to focus on being a force for good to preserve the future of our planet and the lives of people”, said Nespresso Global Head of Sustainability, Jérôme Perez.

GuideMeSingapore by Hawksford is the leading Singapore-focused business information portal that provides a host of resources for entrepreneurs and corporates who are looking to set up a business in or relocate to Singapore. Singapore’s reputation as a strategic gateway to Southeast Asia makes it an attractive hub for Canadian companies looking to establish or consolidate their business in Asia. If your company is not already based in Singapore, it may be useful to look at engaging the services of a professional business administration provider to register your company in Singapore to take care of all the back-end work.

Canadian Business Students Step in to Help Organizations Impacted by COVID-19 This is welcome news for both organizations impacted by the pandemic as well as the students, many of whom lost job opportunities they had lined up when COVID-19 hit, and the majority of them facing an uncertain future in a deteriorating job market,” said Mitacs CEO and Scientific Director John Hepburn. He added that Canada’s economy stands to gain from the internship program. Since launching in May 2020, the BSI program has placed about 1,000 interns in business positions across Canada.


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