Building Better Businesses Starts with Better Advisory Leadership

Save the Date: CE Savvy Business Builder Summit, March 25, 2026 | Virtual | 8:15 AM – 1:30 PM CT. Are you growing your practice?  Perhaps you are helping your clients grow their businesses better?  Small business owners face relentless pressure - from rising costs and labour challenges to tax complexity, succession uncertainty, digital disruption and for some, quite simply the basics: how to lead, how to sell, and how to make decisions based on their financial statements. If this resonates, read on about a unique business education program geared at small to medium sized business owners and a new live virtual summit.

Robert and Jackie are contemplating retirement.  Robert is 65, earns $55,000 from employment and also receives a $24,000 pension.

Glen is single, age 55.  He lives alone in a rental apartment in Hamilton, Ontario.  His current salary is $55,000.  His rent is $1,000/month.

Now that the date of the Federal Budget has been announced, Tuesday April 21, and the Minister has met with learned private-sector economists, who confirmed the March private-sector forecasts will do in interpreting plans for the near future, there is much speculation on what the budget will announce and for whom

According to Finance Canada, more than 1.2 million net new jobs have been created in Canada since the depths of the recession—one of the strongest job creation records in the G-7. 

As a financial professional, you may be called upon from time to time to act as an expert witness in a legal case.

Knowledge Bureau is pleased to announce the publication of a new edition of its certificate course  Advising Family Business, with substantive additions and commentary by Jenifer Bartman, CA, CMC.