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Canada’s expansion of the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program is changing how equity participation takes shape in major projects. The increase in both its scale and scope means that Indigenous communities can take meaningful ownership stakes in resource, infrastructure, and clean energy developments with lower borrowing costs and greater financial autonomy. For many Nations, this marks a move from simply being consulted to becoming co-owners and long-term economic partners in v

Budget 2025 signals an important shift for Canada’s earliest research and development teams. By raising the enhanced expenditure limit under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program to roughly six million dollars and widening eligibility to more public firms, Ottawa has given early-stage ventures a larger window to access refundable tax credits. For many founders, that could mean a longer runway between prototype and proof of concept—critical month

Ottawa’s March 21 decision to cancel the planned hike in the capital gains inclusion rate quickly changed the tone in Canada’s startup and investment circles. Keeping the rate at one half preserves familiar ground for founders who have faced rising uncertainty about how their eventual exits might be taxed. Timing matters: with valuations compressed and seed funding more conservative than in past years, predictability gives space to plan rather than rush deals under shifting f

Canada’s planned overhaul of the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program in 2025 marks one of the most significant updates to federal R&D support in years. By lifting the enhanced refundable credit ceiling to roughly six million dollars for qualifying firms, Ottawa signals a renewed intent to back early-stage growth. The reinstatement of capital expenditure eligibility for assets acquired after mid‑December 2024 may also change how young companies bud

Canada’s founder community is heading into 2025 facing a reset in how growth and exits are taxed. The federal adjustments to the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program are prompting early-stage companies to revisit their R&D budgets, particularly the thresholds that determine refundable credits. For many science-based ventures, the change will alter the timing of experiments, hiring, and equipment spending. At the same time, the new Canadian Entrepre