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Genenta Science receives Nasdaq minimum bid price deficiency notice
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Bob on Business: More industrial space in the construction pipeline
Also, HistoryHomes acquisition; dealership construction; and Panther Island progress.
Brubaker earns national dealer nomination for business leadership, community service
Duke Brubaker, dealer principal of Champion Ford Mazda in Owensboro, has been nominated for the 2027 TIME Dealer of the Year award. The honor recognizes a career that spans more than three decades at the family dealership and community efforts ranging from a prom experience for people with special needs to helping a local softball team reach the Little League World Series.
Springfield City Council to vote on behavioral health campus annexation Nov. 2
Also on Monday, the city’s economic development board discussed plans for the former Buick dealership downtown, which the urban renewal agency acquired for redevelopment.
Stellantis bets on small affordable EVs for European comeback
By Giulio Piovaccari and Gilles Guillaume MEUDON, France, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Stellantis heads into Paris Motor Show with a message it hopes customers, investors and dealers are ready to
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood Unveils 'Zona de Fuego' Florida's First Fully Integrated Latin Gaming & Entertainment Experience
/PRNewswire/ -- Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood today unveiled Zona de Fuego, Florida's first fully integrated Latin gaming and entertainment...
Anthropic commits $150M to U.S. AI science initiative
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Basil Family Dealerships expands business to Springville
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Basil Family Dealerships is expanding their business across Western New York with the acquisition of two dealerships in Springville. The automotive group acquired Emerl…
Artificial Intelligence Could Reshape Dealership Business Development Centers
Artificial intelligence could sharply reduce staffing inside automobile dealership Business Development Centers within the next two years, according to a prediction from Car Dealership Guy founder and CEO Yossi J. Levi.
Maine’s deluge of political ads is crowding out small businesses
The onslaught of political ads means less airtime for Maine's bakeries, car dealerships, shops, colleges, professional services firms and others looking to get their own messages out.
Ford taps comedian Nate Bargatze for new ads promoting dealership service business
Ford taps comedian Nate Bargatze to front a new ad campaign encouraging customers to go back to dealership service centers as third-party repair competition grows.
Proprietor stitches together new business
Jake Beechler's leatherworking career started when the nylon sheath for his Leatherman tool wore out.
NBAA, IADA Deepen Alliance at 2026 NBAA-BACE
NBAA is expanding its strategic partnership with the International Aircraft Dealers Association at NBAA-BACE.
Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.0561
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AMC Entertainment starts $3.97B debt plan to refinance notes, term loans
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MSG Entertainment names new president
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Tim Lamb Group Facilitates La Porte Ford Acquisition
Tim Lamb Group, the largest auto dealership sales and acquisitions firm in North America, announced the successful acquisition of Auto Park Ford of La Porte. The dealership, located at 1522 E. …
Canaan Hardware and Supply named New Hampshire’s 2026 HBSDealer All Star
Canaan Hardware and Supply has been selected as New Hampshire’s 2026 Hardware All Star by Hardware + Building Supply Dealer magazine, earning recognition as one of just 50 independent home
Collector says $130K in vintage collectibles stolen from Corona storage unit
A vintage collectibles dealer says approximately $130,000 worth of merchandise was stolen from a storage unit in Corona, dealing a major setback to his business.
Ban on selling handguns to young adults under 21 is unconstitutional, Justice Department says
The Justice Department says federal law banning licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under age 21 is unconstitutional and can’t be enforced | KNX News 1070 AM
Ban on selling handguns to young adults under 21 is unconstitutional, Justice Department says
The Justice Department says federal law banning licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under age 21 is unconstitutional and can’t be enforced | Newsradio 1140 WRVA
Phony online car dealership uses real Douglas County business address
When scammers steal an identity, it’s not always personal information. They often post a phony business online but use a real address.
John Deere dealer Murphy Tractor names new president
Murphy Tractor and Equipment Co., one of the largest John Deere construction and forestry equipment dealerships in North America, has appointed Jeff Oldham as president, effective Sept. 10. Oldham succeeds Bill Buckles, who retired after 33 years with the company based in Park City, Kan. As president, Oldham will oversee operations across Murphy Tractor’s 29…
SEC Signs Off on Finra Outside Business Reforms
Finra’s proposed rule change eliminates a reporting requirement for lower-risk side jobs and ends broker-dealer supervision of advisors’ work at unaffiliated RIAs.
Hayden Panettiere death probe focusing on illegal pills from LA dealer
Federal authorities probing the death of Hayden Panettiere are focusing their investigation in Los Angeles and looking into whether the actor procured nonprescription pills from an area dealer. Drug Enforcement
The powerful millionaires hiding in plain sight
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political power.
The powerful millionaires hiding in plain sight
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political power.
2027 cars are late. That's good news for 2026 buyers.
There aren't a lot of 2027 model year cars on US dealerships. That is bringing down car prices, and could lead to some winter deals.
Native-owned Rosebud Reservation business earns national hardware industry honor
Rosebud Building Products on the Rosebud Reservation is named South Dakota’s 2026 Hardware All Star by HBSDealer for business growth and community service.
California judge suspends license for salvage inspection business
A California judge has suspended the license of a Los Angeles-based automotive dealer after a Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) investigation found the business performed fraudulent vehicle safety …
GameSquare to acquire sports, music, and entertainment IP assets from FanEngine
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Bridgeport community rallying around business, residents after Labor Day fire
Officials say the fire started in the used car dealership and then spread to a boat and car.
Classic, luxury car business plans to move into old Stevenson Lumber building
MONROE, Conn. --- Carsation, a used car dealership specializing in classic and luxury automobiles, from Porsches and Mercedes to BMWs and Land Rovers, plans to renovate the former Stevenson Lumber building at 1545 Monroe Turnpike to display its cars in a showroom for customers, though the vast majority of its business is done online. Duane
Honda brings Mamadou Diallo back to lead its U.S. auto business
Honda brings Mamadou Diallo back to lead its U.S. auto business, giving dealers a familiar executive with deep Honda and Acura experience.
Students turned drug dealers: How some US fraternities entered the narcotics business
The case of 13 Penn State students charged with trafficking is the latest example of undergraduates who traded textbooks for selling illegal substances
‘We’re not going to have a business’: Vermont companies say Trump’s renewed trade war with Canada has them scrambling, again
JAY — Mike Desmarais, who sells snow grooming equipment at a dealer in Newport, is planning to deliver three new vehicles to Canadian customers this month. The machines currently cost
Trump’s latest clemency grants aid a union boss and a Jay-Z associate
President Donald Trump issued 30 clemency grants on Thursday, including for a drug dealer-turned-executive of Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s sprawling company.
Argentine court clears return of Nazi-looted portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir
A long-lost Italian portrait looted by the Nazis has been cleared for return to the heir of a prominent Jewish art dealer | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM
Retailers React: How has the weather impacted your business?
In this week's edition of Retailers React, we asked flooring dealers: To what extent has the weather impacted your business?
Geaux Automotive Group acquires four former All Star Automotive dealerships
Geaux Automotive Group has expanded its Louisiana footprint by acquiring four former Hudson Automotive dealerships, adding 111 employees and positioning the Baton Rouge-based dealership group for cont… Already an INSIDER? Sign in. Already an INSIDER? Sign in
Off-Road Ford Mustang 'Baja' Shown Off At Dealer Meeting, Again
We first told you about the all-terrain Mustang back in 2023, when it was originally slated to come out sometime in 2026.
A Kenosha car dealership under fire, a grocery store upgrade in Whitefish Bay, and more Milwaukee business news
Milwaukee Business Journal's Tim Gibbons joins the show to discuss a Kenosha car dealer with an EEOC complaint, Vet/first responder affordable housing
Car dealerships are relying more on parts and service for profits
Dealership gross profits have fallen from the supply-constrained days of 2022. They are relying more heavily on the income streams that hedge against downturns.
Why car dealerships are a 'hedged' business
The auto industry is cyclical, but one segment of it seems to be far more resilient to downturns: the auto dealer. Parts and service departments are responsible for about half a dealership’s profits, and finance and insurance arms can contribute nearly a quarter. Now that the affluent car buyer is showing signs of weakness, dealers are leaning more on profits and finance and insurance to drive profits. Here’s why that has worked for them in the past, and why it may be challenged in the future.
Lightspeed Launches AI Command Center™
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lightspeed, the leading provider of dealership management software for the powersports, marine...
Neighboring business makes top bid for vacant Reserve Center in Grand Rapids
A Grand Rapids industrial equipment dealer placed the highest bid in the auction for an old Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center next door.
A Fake Email Redirected $113,050 Into His Business Account, Then Nearly All the Money Was Gone in Hours
A North Dakota man is facing federal fraud charges after prosecutors say a nearly identical email address redirected $113,050 owed to an art dealer into ... Read More
Bob on Business: Fort Worth’s All American Tire acquired
Also, dealership upgrades, car care partnership and going down the acquisition road.
Auto loan refinancing: How it works and when it could save you money
Explore how auto loan refinancing works, when it makes financial sense, and how preapproval options can help lower your monthly car payments.
BLOOMBERG: Sports Apparel Company Fanatics Inks BGC Deal for Prediction Markets Expansion
Fanatics struck a deal to buy a federally regulated derivatives exchange and clearinghouse from BGC Group Inc., as the sports-apparel company and broker-dealer seek to partner on prediction markets for retail and institutional investors.
How gun dealers with serious past violations got licenses back under Trump
Nearly a dozen stores that had their licenses revoked under Biden have now been allowed to sell firearms again under Trump, a CNN investigation found.
BP to sell 250-site Austrian c-store business
About 115 of the c-stores are company owned and franchise operated, with others either run by dealers or unstaffed company-owned sites.
Anyone in Bluetooth Range Can Unlock Cars, Kill Engines Through Alarms Owners May Never Have Paid For
A dealer-installed alarm in two million cars is vulnerable to hackers. Worse yet, owners may not even know their car has one.
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.
This Week: Muni 1 Bus Improvements, Car Free Happy Hour, SF Politics 101
Here is a list of events this week. Tuesday Park Presidio and California Evening Pop-Up. This SFMTA project aims to improve the Muni 1 California bus route from 33rd Avenue to Steiner Street. Come learn about it. Tuesday, July 21, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Corner of Park Presidio and California, S.F. Tuesday East Bay Car Free Happy Hour. Whether you’re car free, car light, car free curious, or just want to hang out with fun people and have nerdy urbanist conversations, everyone is welcome. Tuesday, July 21, 5:30-7 p.m., Drake’s Dealership, 2325 Broadway, Oakland. Wednesday SF Politics 101 with Joel Engardio. SF Politics 101 is an entertaining look at how local politics work and the history that shaped San Francisco — brought to life with visuals and narrative storytelling. Wednesday, July 22, 6-7:15 p.m., SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission Street, S.F. Friday Woman and Non-Binary Morning Ride. Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for a socially distanced bike ride for women and nonbinary cyclists. Friday, July 24, 7:15-8:45 a.m., McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan Street, S.F. Saturday Smart City Cycling 3 — Road Practice. In this class, you’ll go on a guided group ride to practice street-riding skills on increasingly high-volume streets. This class is the third in the Smart City Cycling sequence, and Smart City Cycling 2: Maneuvering is a prerequisite. Saturday, July 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Arguello Extension, Arguello Blvd and Lincoln Way, S.F. Sunday Adult & Teen Learn-to-Ride Workshop. This three-hour workshop is for adults and teens who have not yet learned to ride a bike or would like a refresher on the basics of balancing, pedaling, and steering. Sunday, July 26, Alameda Waterfront Park, 2151 Ferry Point, Alameda. Got an event we should know about? Drop us a line.
Value Creators Or Self-Dealers? The Choice Facing Business And Society
Businesses & society must choose: Value Creators like Henry Ford (real innovation for customers) or Self-Dealers like Claude Hopkins. Data favor the Value Creators
Thieves Steal 2 Cars From Dealership. Then The Small Business Owner Realizes His Troubles Are Just Starting: 'Big, Big Problem'
'That’s why posting your business on social media has its cons.'
Booming business: America250 celebrations boost fireworks shops
Pyrotechnics dealers say the Fourth of July falling on a Saturday and the 250th anniversary of the United States have teamed up to make this one of the best years ever for fireworks sales.
Car Nut Sold a 1963 Impala SS 409 (the Great One), Regretted for 45 Years, Got Rare '63 SS in Return
The car was meticulously preserved by the original family for 57 years, and it has a unique dealer modification to accommodate the first buyer’s uncommon size
Antique Dealers Association Hosts Spring Antique Show In Falmouth
The Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association Spring antique show will be held indoors on Saturday, June 20, from 10 AM to 3 PM at the Cape Cod Fairgrounds, 1220 Nathan
CR-Connect Dealer Tour | Axis Business Technologies Is Focused on Its Local Colorado Communities
Axis Business Technologies, a traditional office technology dealer, focuses on service & subscription-based, intelligent document processing (IDP).
Exclusive | The U.S. Needs Mechanics and Electricians. Big Business Is Spending to Create Some.
Bloomberg Philanthropies is launching a new $90 million program that includes a partnership with Ford, which is contending with a shortage of mechanics at its dealerships.
Ford recall tells owners not to drive certain Bronco Sports, Mavericks
Dealers are being instructed to contact vehicle owners to warn them not to drive the vehicle.
Father and 7-year-old son get into the business of trading Pokémon cards
Josh Stacy turned part of his used car dealership into a shop for a different asset, Pokémon cards, after his son Silas helped inspire his interest.
Better Business Bureau warns of alleged car dealer scam in Omaha
The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about an alleged online car dealer scam using an Omaha address.
“It was just an immediate friendship”: says business partner of NASCAR champion Kyle Busch
Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR champion and co-owner of Boyd’s Chevrolet in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, is being mourned by the dealership and its employees, who are committed to honoring hi…
Garry Small is getting out of the Saab business
Garry Small, 86, is selling his eponymous Saab dealership and service center in Portland after 40 years in business. He wants to focus on racing.
Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success
At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. Now he and the rest of the Energy Mix team scan 1,200 news headlines a week to pull together The Energy Mix and The Energy Mix Weekender. 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Urban Science survey: Dealers confident in sales process, wary of AI for lead follow-ups
The sixth annual automotive research study by Urban Science in collaboration with The Harris Poll highlighted that nine in 10 U.S. car buyers said a traditional
Family investors turn to old-economy businesses like dealerships and fisheries to avoid AI disruption
While car dealerships and fisheries are less eye-catching than high-flying AI startups, they offer stability and cash flow that's attractive to family offices.
Bill on firearm barrel sales withdrawn after veto threat from Colorado governor
A bill that would require firearm barrels to be sold in person by a federally licensed firearms dealer was pulled by its sponsors, who say they were all but told the measure would be vetoed by Gov. Jared Polis. Sponsored by Sen. Tom Sullivan, D‑Centennial, and Reps. Kyle Brown, D‑Louisville, and Meg Froelich, D‑Englewood, Senate […]
Bill on firearm barrel sales withdrawn after veto threat from Colorado governor’s office
A bill that would require firearm barrels to be sold in person by a federally licensed firearms dealer was pulled by its sponsors, who say they were all but told the measure would be vetoed by Gov. Jared Polis. Sponsored by Sen. Tom Sullivan, D‑Centennial, and Reps. Kyle Brown, D‑Louisville, and Meg Froelich, D‑Englewood, Senate […]
Daily 5 report for May 8: Why this dealer sold his collision repair business
John Masano sold his collision repair business to Driving Force Collision in 2024 to focus on dealership sales and service operations instead.
Oh, hey, it’s Bandcamp Friday again.
You know the deal: Every dollar goes to the artist, and it’s a great excuse to overindulge in some new music. I’m picking up the new Lip Critic record. 2024’s Hex Dealer was great, and they absolutely tore shit up at the Maker Park Radio anniversary party that summer. What are you snagging? [Media: https://lipcritic.bandcamp.com/album/theft-world]
'Deeply meaningful': Local family-owned business named ‘GMC Dealer of the Year’
The dealership has earned a prestigious distinction, placing it in the top 1% of nearly 1,700 GMC dealers across the U.S.
FTC crackdown pushes auto dealers to treat compliance as a core business function
Industry experts discuss the FTC crackdown, dealer transparency and how compliance, culture and pricing strategy impact M&A and valuation.
X Shore Is Back in Business
Now that X Shore is back in business, Hanson adds, it can provide customers and dealers with spare parts and service. It will do so on
North Texas auto dealer Don Herring discusses the impact of tariffs on his business and customers
Herring said that in the year before tariffs, used car sales were just under half of his business at his dealership in Irving; Now, they are nearly 75 percent.
Guest article: Physical AI isn't replacing farmers. It's critical for keeping them in business
Dealer networks are at the center of physical AI's reach into farming, and key to restoring American agriculture and rural communities.
Playgon plans AI casino dealers that run 24/7, launch eyed in Q3 2026
Playgon will invest $1M in milestone tranches and keep 100% of AI Dealer IP, while a five-year exclusive pact sets up Q3 2026 operator rollouts.
'It's just scale': Local mom-and-pop car dealerships are growing or dying amid industry consolidation, rise of mega-retailers
Multibillion-dollar dealerships have been on the rise amid a decadeslong consolidation that has led to a grow-or-die mentality for many U.S. auto retailers.
Deep South Equipment finds natural fit in Lafayette
It’s easy to find Deep South Equipment’s Lafayette location; just look for the gorilla. The Louisiana-based equipment dealer and service provider opened at 122 Southpark Road in late 2024 and decided to keep the well-known gorilla statue from the previous owner, George’s Lift Trucks. CONNECT WITH US Top executives: John Parsons, Owner & President; Patrick […]
Matrix Business Systems Builds a Better Way to Manage Print
Education partnership: How a Nebraska-based office technoogy dealer Matrix is redefining how organizations manage print infrastructure.
America’s Car-Mart in Kirksville abruptly closes after 13 years in business
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. — A car dealership in northeast Missouri abruptly closed this week.
Car-Mart to close 42 dealerships, lay off staff - Talk Business & Politics
Rogers-based America’s Car-Mart Inc. will close 42 dealerships over the next week as market challenges impact its establishment of a “non-recourse revolving warehouse credit facility,” according to a Tuesday (April...
Pacific Office Automation Acquires Western Business Products
Acquisiion of Ricoh dealer expands Pacific Office Automation's coverage across Northern California and Southern Oregon along the I-5 corridor.
Better Business Bureau: Used car dealer sales requirements
Jo Ann Deal with the Better Business Bureau of Monroe joined Good Morning ArkLaMiss to talk about buyer’s guide requirements for used car sales.
California cracks down on luxury car buyers evading taxes through 'Montana Loophole'
California targets wealthy luxury car owners and dealers using the Montana loophole to avoid sales tax, launching audits to recover millions in revenue.
Unique nonprofit serving single moms selects new leader
SPARKHOPE AUTOMOTIVE Denver News: Jason Spears has been named chief executive officer of SparkHope Automotive. While its name might lead one to believe it is a car dealership, SparkHope Automotive, formerly Hands of the Carpenter, is a faith-based nonprofit serving employed single mothers by addressing a critical and often overlooked barrier to stability: reliable transportation. “Jason’s leadership and heart for community perfectly align […]
Bob on Business: Castle for sale. Part deux
Also, celebrating the Drover, apartment sold, more spicy chicken and new dealership.
Mercedes-Benz service tech charged for allegedly taking customer’s vehicle to sports bar
A dealership employee in Tennessee has been charged after being accussed of taking a customer’s vehicle.
Mercedes-Benz service tech charged for allegedly taking customer’s vehicle to sports bar
A dealership employee in Tennessee is facing charges after being accussed of taking a customer’s vehicle.
Mercedes-Benz service tech charged for allegedly taking customer’s vehicle to sports bar
A dealership employee in Tennessee has been charged after being accussed of taking a customer’s vehicle.
Sony temporarily suspends memory card sales due to shortages
Sony Japan stopped accepting SD and CFexpress card orders from dealers and consumers today.
South Florida car business hit by global conflict after missile damage in Dubai, as shipping disruptions mount
New images out of the region show destruction tied to escalating tensions involving Iran, and for one Miami Lakes-based company, the fallout is both immediate and costly.
Ford recalls more than 254,000 SUVs due to software issues
Ford is recalling more than 254,000 SUVs in the U.S. after a software defect was found to impact rearview cameras and key driver-assistance safety systems.
The OG Four-Door Porsche Sports Sedan Wasn't Even Built By Porsche
In 1967, a Texas-based car dealer wanted a four-door Porsche 911 S. Porsche wouldn't make it, so he turned to coachbuilders for help.
Honda cancels 3 planned EV models for US
Honda shifts U.S. strategy from electric vehicles to hybrids as consumer demand weakens, canceling three planned EV models including Honda 0 Series lineup.
He Earns $1,000 a Job—and He’s a Car Dealer’s Worst Nightmare
With car prices soaring, one man deploys dealer speak to talk down the sticker price on behalf of buyers: “You’re hiring a middleman to deal with the middleman to make the middleman more efficient.”
VTA taking local trucking business to court after eminent domain dispute
VTA and a local truck dealership are headed to trial over VTA's use of eminent domain and a question of fair compensation. The agency has been acquiring land for its six-mile BART extension project, slated to open in 2036.