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As Canada escalates its trade war with President Donald Trump, Alberta is betting on a softer approach.The oil-rich province has resisted some of the retaliation embraced elsewhere in Canada, while Premier Danielle Smith has pushed for more engagement with Washington.Alberta’s top representative in the US says that strategy is getting results.”I think the premier’s diplomacy-first approach has really not only been helpful for me, but certainly helpful for the province,” Nathan Cooper told CBC’s “West of Centre” podcast published on Friday.”If we look at the impact of US tariffs on the Alberta economy, we have a disproportionately low impact,” Cooper…

The US-Canada trade war is coming for your charcuterie board (and much much more).Without a last-minute change, Canada is set to implement a slew of new tariffs on imports from the US at 12:01am eastern on Tuesday morning. They include a 25% levy on cheese, a 50% tariff on honey, and a 50% charge on aluminum foil.The new measures, a retaliatory response to the Trump Administration’s 50% tariffs in August on a flurry of Canadian goods like beer and milk products, could make it more expensive for Canadians to buy hundreds of US-origin items across industries like agriculture and manufacturing.The…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leah Young, a 34-year-old from Dallas who moved to Spain in 2015. Young is the founder of Fearless Abroad, a company that helps Americans working remotely relocate to Europe. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.A lot of people love the idea of traveling to new places and experiencing something exciting. What excited me about living abroad was the adventure. When I was younger, I’d taken a few short trips, but there was still so much more of the world I wanted to see.For years, I tried to make…

Nail the basics, speak up, keep learning, and meet in person.JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and AT&T CEO John Stankey shared those four pieces of career advice during a recent, wide-ranging interview hosted by LinkedIn.LinkedIn posted text and video highlights of the conversation between the two corporate titans on its platform.Here are the four key takeaways from what the pair said:1. Fundamentals matterDimon, who has led America’s biggest bank by assets for more than 20 years, said young people have different ambitions and goals than previous generations, and are likely to have more complex, varied, and faster-moving careers.But he said the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jennifer Mannix, a 56-year-old based in Tacoma, Washington. It’s been edited for length and clarity.In 2022, after 30 years working for the city of Juneau, Alaska, I was eligible for a full retirement, which included health benefits and a pension for the rest of my life.My wife and I moved to Tacoma, Washington, and it’s been lovely to have a career break after several stressful years in risk management. However, I’m in a unique position where I can afford not to work for a while, but I’m only in my early…

Zohran Mamdani is celebrating Labor Day in a fitting way: Setting up a new city office to work more closely with unions and workers across NYC.The New York City mayor is launching an Office of Worker Power, which the administration says will be a resource for labor unions and local rank-and-file employees.The office — which will be led by longtime labor organizer and United Auto Workers alum Tony  Perlstein — will give workers information about their rights, connect union leaders with groups that can help them organize, and hold public hearings on worker issues.”With the disappearance of good middle-class careers…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sami Akkawi, the 26-year-old cofounder of Petra Labs. He lives in New York. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I used to work through consulting, where I interviewed close to 1,000 heads of marketing and CMOs.It became really clear that they didn’t have great solutions for defining how much revenue was coming from AI search. So, I cofounded Petra Labs.My team and I have outgrown five offices in the last year. From apartment lounges to a full floor in SoHo, here’s how we found our dream spot.Office #1: Akkawi’s cofounder’s Dumbo…

Scott Stevenson doesn’t want every employee’s idea to get an AI glow-up.The cofounder and CEO of Spellbook said workers’ proposals containing “AI nonsense” routinely make it to his desk. It might be a project plan or a marketing pitch. Whatever it is, he said, it can arrive looking far more polished than the thinking behind it.Stevenson said he would rather see the rough version first.”I want the D+ version of your plan,” he said.Stevenson is now asking employees at the Toronto company, which develops an AI tool for drafting and analyzing contracts, to resist the temptation to turn every idea…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Judy Zeng, a 22-year-old business development intern at global media startup EO Studios, based in San Francisco. Her identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a recent graduate from Northwestern University, where I studied journalism. I now work at a company called EO Studios.As a media major, there was always a lot of stress around finding internships and jobs. With all the AI applications and AI-powered reviewers, I had a lot of disillusionment with the traditional hiring process as a…

If there’s one thing Americans love to do with their free time, it’s shop.Retailers often treat their customers’ days off as an occasion to run promotions or otherwise get a boost — but not so much at Costco.The wholesale club has a longstanding policy of closing US stores on seven holidays, spaced throughout the year. Costco still runs Labor Day sales, you just can’t get the deals at the warehouse on Labor Day itself.”We feel it is important for our employees to enjoy these holidays with their families/friends,” CEO Ron Vachris told Business Insider via email. “That is the reason…