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      <title>Canada Pension Plan (CPP) has changed!  How are you affected?</title>
      <link>http://www.cfib-fcei.ca/english/article/3205-changes-to-canada-pension-plan.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you or any of your employees are between the ages of 60 and 70 and are collecting CPP benefits while continuing to work, you may have to start contributing to CPP again. On January 1<sup>st</sup>, 2012, new rules came into effect for those collecting their benefits while continuing to work.]]></description>
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      <title>Need to boost your productivity? $80 Million invested to help SMEs grow through technology</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Banking &amp; Financing</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[The federal government has announced a pilot project, the Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program, aimed at helping SMEs achieve increased productivity. Are you interested in being one of the companies chosen?]]></description>
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      <title>Alert: Beware of credit card processing offers too good to be true</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Banking &amp; Financing</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of the most important provisions of the Code of Conduct for the Credit and Debit Card Industry was a provision to allow firms to exit their electronic payment processing contracts with ACQUIRERS or RESELLERS without penalty within 90 days of an unscheduled rate change or the introduction of a new fee. Though the Code contains many more measures to protect your business you must still remain vigilant.]]></description>
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      <title>Cybersecurity:  Is your business system set to withstand online threats? </title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Protecting Your Business</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[Doing business online can expand your reach to new customers around the world and provide greater convenience to your local customers, but it also comes with risk.  The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has made available a series of articles featuring simple steps you can take to improve your business system’s “cybersecurity”.]]></description>
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      <title>Victim of Directory Scam? Competition Bureau sues deceptive marketing companies</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Small businesses have called CFIB to complain of being deceived when receiving forms to update their paid advertising. Typically a form arrives supposedly from Yellow Pages Group (YPG) with a logo similar to the famous ‘walking fingers’.  The look and feel of the stylized form is misleading: Once signed the business finds it has committed to paying large amounts to a directory but not Yellow Pages.]]></description>
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