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• Job Posting: Events Coordinator

  • December 17^th, 2025
  • Community, Events
  • Region of Waterloo, kwawesome, chamber of commerce, job posting, application, events coordinator

  Join our team as an events coordinator! About Us The Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce (GKWCC) provides strong, continued service to over 1500 members in one of Canada’s marquee pioneering and entrepreneurial business communities. For nearly 140 years, dating back to the Chamber’s founding as the Berlin Board of Trade, we have expanded into one […]

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• Fearless Female (December): Sandra Hepditch

  • December 2^nd, 2025
  • Advocacy, Community
  • business, Region of Waterloo, Awards, advice, kwawesome, chamber of commerce, fearless female, inspiration, food trucks, fo'cheezy, leadership

  On the first Tuesday of every month, we’ll announce a new Fearless Female, including a video interview of them sharing their business story. Want to be featured as a Fearless Female? Contact Memberships for more details. The Fearless Female Program would not be possible without our Title Sponsor, Scotiabank. To learn a little more about the Scotiabank Women Initiative, […]

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• Ontario Fall Economic Statement – Support for Businesses

  • November 7^th, 2025
  • Advocacy, Community
  • Ontario, tax, chamber of commerce, federal budget, Fall Economic Statement, deficit, Local Business, new markets, Advocacy, global, Region of Waterloo, tariffs, canada

  Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy released the 2025 Ontario Fall Economic Statement on November 6. The provincial fiscal update arrived two days after the first federal budget from the Carney administration. Expectations and interest from the provincial businesses sector was extraordinarily high as the provincial government was providing their first major economic update following the […]

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• Federal Budget 2025 – Investments into the National Economy

  • November 5^th, 2025
  • Advocacy, Community
  • health care, opportunities, spending, Waterloo Region, Advocacy, challenges, chamber of commerce, federal budget, mark carney

  The first budget of the Mark Carney administration was tabled on November 4, 2025. The strategy tabled by Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is structured to attract investment and implement productivity incentives. The major challenge for the Prime Minister and his cabinet will be the actual implementation and execution of numerous new measures. Success will also […]

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• BESTWR Backs LRT Phase II: A Vital Step for Waterloo Region’s Growth

  • November 4^th, 2025
  • Advocacy, Community
  • economic, chamber of commerce, cambridge, Waterloo, Kitchener, business, BESTWR, LRT

  Dear Chair Redman and Councillors, The Business and Economic Support Team of Waterloo Region (BESTWR) is in full support of the staff recommended option for the LRT Phase II. The proposed recommendation fulfills the promise and commitment of an LRT system from north Waterloo to south Cambridge. The success of the LRT Phase I in […]

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