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Small Business Week activities planned between Oct. 19 to 25 aim to celebrate the entrepreneurs and small business owners who contribute to communities across Kawartha Lakes.

New BrunswickThe New Brunswick Strategic Innovation Centre in Digital Forestry, which will be a collaboration between the Northern Hardwoods Research Institute and ResearchNB, will create new tools to “improve how fibre is managed across supply chains,” according to Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson. Federal government announced $50M in funding for project’s expected $86M price tagJordan Gill · CBC News · Posted: Oct 14, 2026 1:58 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 14Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The New Brunswick Strategic Innovation Centre in Digital Forestry will be a collaboration between the Northern Hardwoods Research Institute and ResearchNB. (CBC)The federal government announced new funding for a new centre that seeks to digitalize the forestry sector.

Skip to mainWed, October 14, 2026 at 5:53 p.m. UTCMajor Vancouver brands like Lululemon, MEC and Arc'teryx are expanding their second-hand sales programs as demand for pre-owned merchandise grows, and travel from YVR to the U. S. declines again for the 20th straight month. BIV's Tyler Orton has your business news.

OSFI flagged the climate mortgage risk that insurance insiders are now warning about Canada’s banking and insurance regulator has already identified the risk that a group of senior insurance executives raised earlier today.

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Published: October 14, 2026 at 1:36p.m. EDTTom Kloza, chief energy advisor at Gulf Oil, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the oil sector following Trump-Putin diesel deal. Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine have pushed diesel and gasoline prices up dramatically, straining Canadian households, but higher crude oil values have provided a boost to Canada’s economy as a whole. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by TD Economics, which argued that Canada’s role as a major oil producer is helping the country absorb the current energy shocks being felt around the world. “Higher crude prices remain a net positive for Canada through stronger exports, incomes and government revenues,” wrote TD economist and report author Marc Ercolao.

CNBC's Natasha Abellard takes a deep dive into Qnity and how its products help build the semiconductors that will power the latest AI advancements.

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Skip to mainWed, October 14, 2026 at 5:17 p.m. UTCSome of Canada's major banks and telecom companies are teaming up to share intelligence information on cases of fraud to prevent repeat offenders through a new platform called the Cross-Sector Anti-Fraud Exchange (CSAFE). That story and more in Business Matters for October 14, 2026.

The ChatGPT prompts read like a to-do list. Build “a continuous audio recorder.” Add “live listening” and “downloading/deleting recordings.” Encrypt the SD card. Make the USB output “power-only.” Develop “a second unit and speech-triggered recording,” then “a third unit.” Finally, “apply final protection and silence boot output.”

Youth in Timmins, Thunder Bay and Sudbury will get firsthand experience with the skilled trades this month as the fifth annual Level Up! skilled trades career fairs return to the North. An initiative of the provincial government, Level Up! Introduces students to in-demand careers in the skilled trades through a dozen open houses being held across the province this fall. The events are geared to students in Grades 7 to 12.

Escondida supervisors, about 1,020 workers at the world’s largest copper mine, said they would strike at 8 a.m. local time Wednesday, a week after workers walked out at Centinela. Chile’s August copper output fell 12.8% to 369,500 tons, the lowest monthly total since February 2011, and a fatal landslide hit Codelco’s El Teniente on Sunday.

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ADVERTISEMENTWatchVideo released by York Regional Police shows a suspect dousing a porch in fuel, hurling rocks and shooting toward a Vaughan business. October 14, 2026 at 12:41p.m. EDT

ADVERTISEMENTWatchVideo released by York Regional Police shows a suspect dousing a porch in fuel, hurling rocks and shooting toward a Vaughan business. October 14, 2026 at 12:41p.m. EDT

Copper pulled back from a three-week high on Wednesday after US inflation data put a Federal Reserve rate hike this month back on the table, and word of a preliminary deal to avert a strike at BHP’s Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, took some of the supply premium out of the price. Comex copper for December delivery traded at $6.6695 a pound (about $14,704 a tonne) late morning in New York, down 0.8%, after touching $6.7890 earlier in the session. The most-active contract’s record settlement of $6.89 was set on September 9, the day before a report that the White House tariff plan had stalled knocked more than 5% off the price.