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CTV News
3 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
An app developed in Greater Sudbury to help local businesses goes nationwide
The Sudbury-developed Chamber Perks app, which helps local businesses and consumers alike, has been picked up by a national audience. At an age when most people are winding down into retirement, Karen Hastie of Sudbury is starting a new professional chapter in her life. 'After a 32-year career, I wasn't ready to just sit and become a retiree,' Hastie said. Karen Hastie Karen Hastie is the founder and CEO of the Chamber Perks App. The free app gives users the inside scoop on discounts on local northern businesses like Twiggs and MIC in Sudbury. (Supplied) 'I've always been passionate about small business, and the opportunity came along to work with the Greater Sudbury Chamber, and we created this app and tested it in 2022. And I got inspired and excited to continue working with it.' She is the founder and CEO of the Chamber Perks App. The free app gives users the inside scoop on discounts on local northern businesses like Twiggs and MIC in Sudbury. Connect with businesses And from a business perspective, it also allows for marketing and advertising companies to easily connect with some of the chamber businesses. 'It's been well-received from all levels,' Hastie said. 'Consumers love the idea of being able to save money and supporting Canadian businesses, and Canadian chamber businesses now get to showcase their company, not just locally in their own community, but now it can be seen across Canada.' 'So if businesses are looking for new customers, new vendors, and new suppliers, it's easy to find them on the app,' she added. 'Consumers love the idea of being able to save money and supporting Canadian businesses, and Canadian chamber businesses now get to showcase their company, not just locally in their own community, but now it can be seen across Canada.' — App developer Karen Hastie Marie Litalien, president and CEO of the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce, said the app is available to all of its close to 900 members. Litalien credited Hastie and the chamber's board of directors as the driving force behind the app. 'So it's a partnership, really, and an indication and of the partnership between the chamber of commerce and local business,' she said. Dave Russell, the owner of Twiggs Sudbury location, said he expects the app will be a success 'nationwide.' App developed in Sudbury goes nationwide Fun and important 'I think that's fun and important for local businesses to grow and grow together,' Russel said. Twiggs is one of the top businesses on the Chamber Perks App as they have been a member since the first adaptation in 2022. 'I think that's just an indication of the innovation,' Litalien said. 'And of the quality of new ventures that we have here in the community. The chamber is very supportive of those. We always will be. And we love working with Karen and promoting the app to our members. It's of great value to them.' Hastie said it has been exciting to watch the app grow in popularity. 'An app that started in Sudbury, intended to be used here, and then we got some interest from other chambers across Ontario, and now we are coast to coast in over 58 cities,' she said. 'We have over 20,000 businesses featured on the app and 1,900 perks available for anyone to download and take advantage of -- and support Canadian chamber businesses.'
Sydney Morning Herald
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The colour that is tearing families apart
Imagine the confusion in the Twigg household. The trigger was the Wordle back in June. Sheryl and her daughter Keira pitched their daily battle, seeking to reveal the mystery words in fewer moves, though the real contest lay in how to say the eventual answer. As Sheryl explains, 'I say TAUPE so that it rhymes with Thorpe, while my daughter insists the colour rhymes with rope. Both of us were adamant. In fact, we'd only realised we reached the same answer after looking at each other's phones.' So who's right? Thorpe or rope? Suddenly, I was magistrate in Twigg v English, compelling me to consult the original French. Brownish-grey on the spectrum, taupe derives from mole whose fur displays the in-between shade. Alas, French has an in-between way of saying the word, going closer to rope in rhyme yet longer in duration, the vowel somehow shorter. Acting as mole on behalf of the Twiggs, I ran a radio survey across Victoria. Pick a rhyme: rope or warp. Hundreds replied. Ninety-five per cent stood in the warp camp, despite Collins (UK) and Merriam-Webster (US) favouring the rope echo. The Macquarie has a bob each way, promoting warp over rope, leaving us lost in the brownish-grey murk of indecision. English has a subset of such foggy words, as the data (darter versus dater) suggests. Does schedule start with a sh- or sk-sound? Is mack or mash implicated in machination? Most lexicons tell their user either (or either). Pick one already! You say tomato, I say tomato, so let's stop arguing about tomatoes. Does schedule start with a sh- or sk-sound? Is mack or mash implicated in machination? I've spoken before about Gen-Z, which zedders themselves call zee, while the un-zee crowd prefers zed. In short, chaos. American English provides many of these shibboleths, those words setting two tribes apart. When Bobby Troup – who doesn't rhyme with taupe – wrote the Route 66 song, his stanza backed root as a homophone, despite the modern American, and younger Australian, deeming route to match rout in sound. Loading Abandoning French moles and US highways, let's meet the cute but confusing Leadbeater's possum. Apostrophe kerfuffle aside, Victoria's faunal emblem is one phonetic mess. I've sifted a dozen videos where zoologists (that's zoo-ologist, or zo-ologist) will suggest the eponymous taxidermist – John Leadbeater – rhymes with bed-heater, while others assume red-setter is a closer fit.
The Age
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The colour that is tearing families apart
Imagine the confusion in the Twigg household. The trigger was the Wordle back in June. Sheryl and her daughter Keira pitched their daily battle, seeking to reveal the mystery words in fewer moves, though the real contest lay in how to say the eventual answer. As Sheryl explains, 'I say TAUPE so that it rhymes with Thorpe, while my daughter insists the colour rhymes with rope. Both of us were adamant. In fact, we'd only realised we reached the same answer after looking at each other's phones.' So who's right? Thorpe or rope? Suddenly, I was magistrate in Twigg v English, compelling me to consult the original French. Brownish-grey on the spectrum, taupe derives from mole whose fur displays the in-between shade. Alas, French has an in-between way of saying the word, going closer to rope in rhyme yet longer in duration, the vowel somehow shorter. Acting as mole on behalf of the Twiggs, I ran a radio survey across Victoria. Pick a rhyme: rope or warp. Hundreds replied. Ninety-five per cent stood in the warp camp, despite Collins (UK) and Merriam-Webster (US) favouring the rope echo. The Macquarie has a bob each way, promoting warp over rope, leaving us lost in the brownish-grey murk of indecision. English has a subset of such foggy words, as the data (darter versus dater) suggests. Does schedule start with a sh- or sk-sound? Is mack or mash implicated in machination? Most lexicons tell their user either (or either). Pick one already! You say tomato, I say tomato, so let's stop arguing about tomatoes. Does schedule start with a sh- or sk-sound? Is mack or mash implicated in machination? I've spoken before about Gen-Z, which zedders themselves call zee, while the un-zee crowd prefers zed. In short, chaos. American English provides many of these shibboleths, those words setting two tribes apart. When Bobby Troup – who doesn't rhyme with taupe – wrote the Route 66 song, his stanza backed root as a homophone, despite the modern American, and younger Australian, deeming route to match rout in sound. Loading Abandoning French moles and US highways, let's meet the cute but confusing Leadbeater's possum. Apostrophe kerfuffle aside, Victoria's faunal emblem is one phonetic mess. I've sifted a dozen videos where zoologists (that's zoo-ologist, or zo-ologist) will suggest the eponymous taxidermist – John Leadbeater – rhymes with bed-heater, while others assume red-setter is a closer fit.
