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Export Development Canada Expands Trade Impact Program

Export Development Canada expanded its Trade Impact Program, after deploying almost $3 billion to date. The program provides financing and insurance intended to help Canadian exporters strengthen cash flow and supply chains, improve productivity and diversify into new markets. WHY IT MATTERS: Canadian manufacturers receiving financing to diversify internationally will also need practical ways to […]

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Picturethis3D: What If Your Home Became the Marketplace?

Spatial Commerce moves beyond conventional 3D visualization with a property-first approach to shopping for home products and services. VANCOUVER, British Columbia — August 28, 2026 — Furniture companies, retailers and home-product manufacturers have spent years developing increasingly sophisticated ways for consumers to visualize products online. Picturethis3D believes the next fundamental change works in the opposite […]

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Affordable New Route to Market Now Open for Canadian Manufacturers and Retailers 

Canadian Spatial Commerce platform enables businesses to bring existing 3D product models into exclusive digital catalogues, reach consumers inside their own living spaces and potentially access government programs to help offset eligible costs.  August 28, 2026 08:02 ET  | Source: Picturethis3D VANCOUVER, British Columbia — August 28, 2026 — Furniture companies, retailers and home-product manufacturers have spent […]

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Canada Announces Counter-Tariffs and $7.5B Business Support Package

Following the breakdown of Canada–U.S. negotiations, Canada announced additional counter-tariffs taking effect September 8, 2026. Product categories include 50% tariffs on furniture and 25% tariffs on appliances, alongside other affected goods. Ottawa simultaneously announced approximately $7.5 billion in additional business and diversification support, including expanded tariff-response funding, BDC liquidity and the Canada Strong Diversification Fund. […]

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Much More Than a Pretty Picture

Digital technology has transformed the way we see property. Real-estate photographs can be enhanced in seconds. Empty rooms can be virtually staged. Artificial intelligence can change lighting, furniture, finishes and even the apparent character of a space. The results can be extraordinary. But there is an important distinction between creating an inspiring image and creating […]

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Federal Diversification Funding Reaches B.C. Building-Product Manufacturers

Recent PacifiCan investments include $1 million for Canadian Bavarian Millwork & Lumber to modernize manufacturing and pursue new export markets and $400,000 for Longboard Architectural Products to modernize production and diversify exports. WHY IT MATTERS: Public funding is flowing into the precise intersection Picturethis3D is targeting: Canadian manufacturing + technology adoption + building products + […]

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Canada Establishes Strategic Exports Office

Global Affairs Canada established a Strategic Exports Office as part of Canada’s broader effort to increase international market access and reduce dependence on traditional export markets. WHY IT MATTERS: Picturethis3D’s Commerce Without Borders strategy potentially aligns with Canada’s larger objective of helping Canadian businesses establish commercial relationships in additional international markets. Spatial Commerce could provide […]

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Canada Expands Trade Network with Ecuador Agreement

Canada signed a new free-trade agreement with Ecuador as part of its broader international trade-diversification strategy. WHY IT MATTERS: Canada is actively expanding commercial relationships outside the United States. As additional markets become easier for Canadian businesses to access, digital market-entry technologies become increasingly valuable. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Monitor new Canadian trade agreements and trade missions […]

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Marketing Cents

Full Listing Presentations—Unprecedented Savings Real estate marketing has quickly become one of the biggest expenses agents and brokerages absorb every year. Photography packages, virtual tours, floor plans, staging, video edits, feature sheets, social media graphics—often sourced from different vendors, billed separately, and rebuilt for every listing. The result? Rising costs, inconsistent visuals, and hours lost […]

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The Audacity of AI

Every few years, the tech industry discovers a new frontier it believes only it can save. Right now, real estate is one of those frontiers and the saviour is supposedly artificial intelligence. The claims are confident—impressively so. AI is here to “reinvent,” “redefine,” and “fix” real estate, they say, as though the entire profession has […]

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