{"id":851347,"date":"2026-09-17T20:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851347\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:56:15","slug":"hunter-prize-finalists-deliver-10-innovative-ideas-to-fix-declining-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851347\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Prize finalists deliver 10 innovative ideas to fix declining entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-100 lazy\" viewbox=\"0 0 800 438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HunterPrize_bluebubble_logo_2colour-e1729889296658.png\"  data- height=\"438\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today, the Centre for Civic Engagement and its media partner, The Hub, are proud to announce that 10 finalists have been selected for the fourth annual Hunter Prize for Public Policy, along with their groundbreaking ideas to fundamentally fix Canada\u2019s decline in entrepreneurship and business dynamism.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s competition features a diverse group of finalists targeting areas such as capital gains taxation, small business financing, regulatory reform, immigration policy, among others, to find a policy solution that will begin to alleviate Canada\u2019s stalled business dynamism.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists were selected from a record 343 entries, including entrepreneurs and some of Canada\u2019s leading public policy thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Read for free<\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Civic Engagement and The Hub have announced 10 finalists for the fourth annual Hunter Prize for Public Policy, showcasing innovative ideas to address Canada\u2019s declining entrepreneurship. Selected from a record 343 entries, these finalists propose reforms in areas such as taxation, financing, and immigration policy. An esteemed panel of judges will evaluate the proposals, with the winner receiving $25,000 to implement their idea. The competition aims to foster fresh policy solutions to enhance business dynamism in Canada, with the winner to be revealed in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the Centre for Civic Engagement and its media partner, The Hub, are proud to announce that 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,23103,359704,359703,359706,158,359702,359701,145256,359705],"class_list":["post-851347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-business-innovation","tag-canadian-startups","tag-declining-entrepreneurship","tag-economic-policy-canada","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-entrepreneurship-in-canada","tag-hunter-prize","tag-small-business-growth","tag-the-hub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}