Central/North Vancouver Island
OPINION: OWN THE DIRT: THE NUMBER ONE RULE OF BUSINESS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - “The number one rule of business is own the dirt.” Bruce Alexander, the former owner of Parksville Chrysler and a good friend of mine, told me that more than once. With that in...
ADVISORY: CUSTOMER CONVERSATION
VANCOUVER ISLAND - In today’s dynamic business landscape, small and medium sized businesses face a host of challenges. If you’re a budding business owner, you’re wearing a lot of hats while...
ENTREPRENEUR’S EVENTS MAKING WOMEN FEEL WORTHY
By Mark MacDonald, Business Examiner PARKSVILLE –Kelsey Pringle, Jordan Sandhu and Suzanne Hedges want women to feel Worthy. That’s the goal of events that are filling venues on Vancouver Island and...
BDC AND EQUIFAX LAUNCH CANADIAN SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INDEX
OTTAWA - The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Equifax Canada have partnered to launch the Canadian Small Business Health index. By combining actual business data and industry sentiment,...
VIREB: BALANCED MARKET OFFERS THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
NANAIMO – The Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB) recorded 722 unit sales and 4,015 active listings (all property types) board-wide on the MLS® System in October 2024, up 42 per cent and 12...
NANAIMO COLUMN: CHURCH PICKARD CPA JOINS DOANE GRANT THORNTON LLP
Leadership Changes At Alair Homes NANAIMO - Church Pickard Chartered Professional Accountants has joined Doane Grant Thornton LLP, effective November 1. Grant McDonald is the principal of Church...
South Vancouver Island
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY GROWING, BUT IDENTIFIES NEED FOR MAJOR PROJECTS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - To view the glass half full, construction in British Columbia continues to grow. If one is inclined to look at it half empty, declining investments in major projects and the...
OPINION: OWN THE DIRT: THE NUMBER ONE RULE OF BUSINESS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - “The number one rule of business is own the dirt.” Bruce Alexander, the former owner of Parksville Chrysler and a good friend of mine, told me that more than once. With that in...
ADVISORY: CUSTOMER CONVERSATION
VANCOUVER ISLAND - In today’s dynamic business landscape, small and medium sized businesses face a host of challenges. If you’re a budding business owner, you’re wearing a lot of hats while...
ENTREPRENEUR’S EVENTS MAKING WOMEN FEEL WORTHY
By Mark MacDonald, Business Examiner PARKSVILLE –Kelsey Pringle, Jordan Sandhu and Suzanne Hedges want women to feel Worthy. That’s the goal of events that are filling venues on Vancouver Island and...
BDC AND EQUIFAX LAUNCH CANADIAN SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INDEX
OTTAWA - The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Equifax Canada have partnered to launch the Canadian Small Business Health index. By combining actual business data and industry sentiment,...
BCREA: BC HOME SALES BUILDING MOMENTUM HEADING INTO 2025
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its 2024 Fourth Quarter Housing Forecast. Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales in BC are forecast to...
Thompson Okanagan
MEI: THINK TANK TAKES INSPIRATION FROM GERMAN AND NETHERLANDS HEALTH SYSTEMS
OTTAWA - Taking inspiration from German and Dutch health systems could help improve access to primary care providers such as family doctors, according to an MEI publication released this morning....
BCREA: CANADIAN GDP UNCHANGED IN AUGUST
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian real GDP was essentially unchanged in August, following a 0.1 per cent increase in July. Service-producing industries grew by 0.1 per cent, while goods-producing...
WEST KELOWNA WASTE WATER PROJECT WINS PROJECT OF THE YEAR
WEST KELOWNA - West Kelowna Council celebrated winning the prestigious Project of the Year award by the Public Works Association of British Columbia (PWABC) for the City’s Rose Valley Water...
CPABC: THOMPSON-OKANAGAN’S EMPLOYMENT RATE FALLS TO LOWEST IN B.C.
KELOWNA - According to this year's BC Check-Up: Work, an annual report by the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC) on employment trends across the province, the...
KELOWNA CHAMBER ANNOUNCES CATEGORY FINALISTS IN 2024 BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARDS
KELOWNA - The Kelowna Chamber has announced category finalists for the 37th Annual Business Excellence Awards, and the 15 award categories now move to the finish line. This annual program is jointly...
MBA: FINANCIAL QUARTERBACKS FOR CLIENTS, NOT ONLY NUMBERS
KELOWNA – When business owners visit their accountants, they typically need more than just number crunching to meet the Canada Revenue tax deadlines. They might not know what to ask, and sometimes...
Fraser Valley
STONG’S STEMS SIGN ON AT CITY CENTRE 4
SURREY – Stong’s Market and STEMS Floral are the newest tenants to sign in for the City Centre 4 (CC4) building that is set for completion in the fourth quarter of 2025, and is in the Lark Group’s...
BCREA: CANADIAN GDP UNCHANGED IN AUGUST
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian real GDP was essentially unchanged in August, following a 0.1 per cent increase in July. Service-producing industries grew by 0.1 per cent, while goods-producing...
RECENT B.C. GOVERNMENT SECTOR EMPLOYMENT GREW BY 22% VS 0.5% GROWTH IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR
BRITISH COLUMBIA - BC’s net job creation from 2019-23 has been driven almost exclusively by growth in government employment rather than the private sector, at 22 per cent and 0.5 per cent over the...
BC CHAMBER ISSUES LETTER TO LEADERS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Following announcement of the provincial election results on October 28, 2024, the BC Chamber of Commerce together with other business and industry associations released the...
CRITICAL ISSUES OF PUBLIC SAFETY & COST OF DOING BUSINESS DEMAND URGENT RESPONSE FROM NEW NDP GOVERNMENT
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Business Improvement Areas of BC (BIABC) are calling on the newly elected NDP Government to move with urgency to address a number of critical issues impacting public safety and...
BCREA: AUGUST RETAIL SALES SHOW POSITIVE SIGNS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian retail sales rose 0.4 per cent to $66.6 billion in August from the previous month. Compared to the same time last year, retail sales are also up by 1.4 per cent. However,...
Northern BC
BCFNJC ANNOUNCES THE LOCATIONS OF 6 NEW INDIGENOUS JUSTICE CENTRES IN BC
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The BC First Nations Justice Council (BCFNJC) is excited to announce that it has been working with First Nations to open new Indigenous Justice Centres (IJCs), by December 2024,...
CFIB: LOWER VISA AND MASTERCARD FEES FOR SMALL BUSINESS, STRIPE NOT ON BOARD
OTTAWA - After years of advocacy work, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) welcomes this week’s significant reduction in Visa and Mastercard merchant fees for small businesses....
BCREA: REGIONAL HOUSING DISPARITIES AND CANADIAN HOUSING STARTS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that 5,579 residential unit sales were recorded in Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) systems in September 2024, up a...
GLOBAL MARKET GLOOM, BUT CHANGES (AND POTENTIAL DISRUPTIONS) ARE COMING
As seen in Truck LoggerBC Fall 2024 OTTAWA - At the end of August, there continues to be general gloom in global wood products markets. Many European countries continue to be squeezed between rising...
BRITISH COLUMBIA MOVERS & SHAKERS OCTOBER 11, 2024
News Influencing Decision Makers in BC BRITISH COLUMBIA Lauren Savoie, P.Eng, PMP has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada by the Board of...
ICBA ECONOMICS: BC RESOURCE SECTOR ON NDP LAND RESTRICTIONS
The following op/ed was first published in Business in Vancouver on Sept. 27, 2024. BRITISH COLUMBIA - Picture a BC where we no longer harness the power of water to generate clean electricity. A BC...