As the US-Canadian trade war expands, some Canadians are purposefully shrinking their shopping options by staying local. It isn’t easy. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on about $20 billion in Canadian goods went into effect, prompting “dollar-for-dollar” retaliatory tariffs from Canada — the latest escalation since the trade war officially began in March 2025,
This is an as-told-essay based on a conversation with Joslyn Kelly, owner of J’s Breakfast Club in Gary, Indiana, which experienced a major power outage following a derecho, or a widespread, long-lived wind storm, on August 11. As of Thursday evening, over 57,000 customers remained without power, according to Northern Indiana Public Service Co. This
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Masashi Nakamura, 29, who is running Nakamura Farm, a small Wagyu farm in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I was working at a meat processing facility in Tasmania when my interest in Wagyu began. It was 2024, and I
Smokey John’s has been serving barbecue in Dallas, Texas, since 1976. It was already losing money when a devastating fire destroyed the entire restaurant in 2017. So, brothers Brent and Juan Reaves had to rebuild it from scratch. Their bet paid off. Today, Smokey John’s makes nearly $4 million in annual revenue and goes through
Garbage removal is, at its core, a simple business model with a relatively simple startup plan. When Kirk McKinney decided to start his own junk removal business as a teenager, he already had an idea of the industry. After discovering a landfill near his home in Massachusetts, he began collecting discarded speakers, electronics, weights and
This As They Told It essay is based on a conversation with Nick Lappen, an American bartender and businessman based in China. His words have been edited for length and clarity. I first visited China when I was 22 on a road trip from London to Mongolia, and the experience left a lasting impression on
