Category: Local Business

The Growing Trend of Buying Local: Why Consumers are Choosing to Support Small Businesses

In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in consumer behavior towards buying local and supporting small businesses. This growing trend can be seen across various industries and is driven by a number of…

Shop Local: How Your Purchases Can Make a Big Difference in Your Community

In today’s world of convenience and online shopping, it can be easy to overlook the importance of supporting local businesses. However, the impact of shopping local goes far beyond just the transaction at hand. By…

The Benefits of Buying Local: Why Supporting Small Businesses Matters

In today’s fast-paced, globalized world, it’s easy to overlook the impact of our consumer choices. With the rise of e-commerce and large chain stores, it’s tempting to shop for convenience and low prices. However, there…

3 Fun Ways to Stimulate Creative Thinking

Creativity: it’s your unique personal expression. It is the way you interact with yourself and others. It is also a very fun and exciting part of your self to work with when you want to…

How to Calculate Supply and Demand For Property in Australia

When demand for property is high and supply is low, prices go up. This is a well known law of economics. In fact, nothing else affects prices – only supply and demand. Most experts will…

Invisible Children in Uganda: The Other Face of Kony 2012

Kony 2012 might have been an epic failure, but NGO Invisible Children Uganda’s greatest mistake might have been failing to draw attention to the good work it does in northern Uganda. Almost a year ago,…

So, You Want To Collaborate? The Key to Success For Songwriters

Collaborating is one of the most rewarding and productive activities a songwriter can engage in. It’s also one of the most challenging. Co-writing will stretch you in ways you can’t even imagine up front. Take…

Considering A Dance Company Business in Uganda?

When growing up in Uganda, a person who chose a career in Music, Dance and Drama(MDD) was often ridiculed by being called “Musilu Dala Dala!” [very very stupid]. Now imagine it is the future: Saturday…

Friends in Need: Interventions for Domestic Violence

Last month, I received the following letter from an old friend, Lloyd Barnhart. “A topic I would like you to cover/explore is that curious phenomena which permits otherwise independent women to be dominated… even abused……

Presenting – St Aidan’s Church – Charity Comes Full Circle in Toronto’s Beach Neighbourhood

It’s ironic, just as I decided to do my first neighborhood portrait of Toronto, the Beach, my intended subject, was in the news a lot. For the entire month of January of 2007 newspapers, television…