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• Guides on starting specific types of business: These guides are intended to provide an understanding of potential license, permit or registration requirements when considering the establishment of specific types of businesses in Canada. These documents are prepared by the Canada Business and contains a series of possible steps and issues to consider in carrying out your project. The extent to which the information will apply to you will depend on the circumstances related to your situation.
• Canada's Innovation Strategy is presented in two papers, Knowledge Matters: Skills and Learning for Canadians and Achieving Excellence: Investing in People, Knowledge and Opportunity. The strategy outlines the factors that will drive economic growth and social development over the next decade. The papers highlight the goals, milestones and targets that will improve innovation, skills and learning in Canada.
  To obtain a copy of either Knowledge Matters: Skills and Learning for Canadians, or Achieving Excellence: Investing in People, Knowledge and Opportunity, please visit http://www.innovationstrategy.gc.ca or call 1 800 O-CANADA (1 800-622-6232).

Awards Received

• The Canada Business Web site was selected for the PROFIT Essential Web Guide. The PROFIT Essential Web Guide was created to feature the best, most indispensable business information Web sites serving entrepreneurs in Canada. It has been researched and written by the team at PROFIT magazine, Canada's foremost magazine dedicated to Canadian Entrepreneurs.
• Business Start-Up Assistant (BSA): Distinction Awards bronze medal winner at the 2001 Technology in Government Week (GTEC).
• Head of the Public Service Award 1999 - Canada Business is the winner of the "excellence in service delivery" category.
  The Head of the Public Service Award recognizes employees and teams who best exemplify the achievements and values of public servants in meeting the changing needs of Canadians in three areas: policy development, service delivery, and valuing and supporting people.
• Edward Lowe Foundation "Hailed Site".
• Chatelaine magazine's "Editors' Choice".
• Interactive Business Planner: Distinction Awards silver medal winner at the 1999 Technology in Government Week (GTEC).