BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian retail sales rose 0.6 per cent to $67.6 billion in October from the previous month. Compared to the same time last year, retail sales are up by 1.5 per cent. Furthermore,...
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BCREA: MORTGAGE RATE FORECAST
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Prior to the US presidential election, the outlook for Canadian mortgage rates seemed relatively clear. The Bank of Canada’s overnight policy rate was on a glide path to reach...
SALMON ARM CHAMBER: 2024 YEAR IN REVIEW
SALMON ARM - The Salmon Arm Chamber of Commerce is celebrating a successful and impactful 2024, marked by growth, advocacy, and community-building initiatives that brought businesses together and...
KELOWNA CHAMBER LAUNCHES 2025 TOP 40 OVER 40
KELOWNA - On December 13, 2024, the Kelowna Chamber opened nominations for the 2025 Top 40 Over 40. Now in its 11th year, the Top 40 Program is again presented by sponsor BDO LLP. “We are thrilled...
THOMPSON OKANAGAN MOVERS & SHAKERS DECEMBER 19, 2024
News Influencing Thompson Okanagan Business KELOWNA Liz and Dylan Ranney, two local artists and muralists, designed the new art banners in downtown Kelowna's Cultural District. An affiliate of...
GREEN SHEET OKANAGAN BUILDING BRIEFS: DECEMBER 19, 2024
Location: Kamloops (institutional new) Address: 3035 Airport Rd - Aircraft Hanger - BC Emergency Health Services Description: New airport hanger - 2 storeys - approx 11,554 sf - ground level hangers...
CITY OF PENTICTON RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF CANADA’S MOST LIVABLE CITIES
PENTICTON - The City of Penticton has been recognized as one of Canada’s most livable cities, according to latest rankings by The Globe and Mail. Penticton ranked as the ninth most livable city in...
BIGFOOT CRANE ACADEMY TRAINING CRANE OPERATORS ACROSS WESTERN CANADA
On the ground: students learn with hands-on instruction at Bigfoot Crane Academy ABBOTSFORD – Bigfoot Crane Academy is providing boots on the ground training to help crane operators get a better...
CAR GROUP ASKING PROVINCE TO SLOW DOWN ON ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE TARGETS
BRITISH COLUMBIA – There’s a collision coming when radical government policy concerning the electrification of vehicles meets the marketplace in 2026. Ultimately, it will be consumers that will...
BCREA: NOVEMBER CANADIAN INFLATION REPORT
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose 1.9 per cent on a year-over-year basis in November, down from a 2.0 per cent increase in October....
ICBA: B.C.’s BUSINESS DISADVANTAGE ABOUT TO GET WORSE
The following op-ed, written by Jordan Bateman, ICBA’s VP-Communications, first appeared in Business in Vancouver on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. BRITISH COLUMBIA - David Eby made his annual visit to the...
COFI RESPONDS TO NDP-GREEN AGREEMENT
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Linda Coady, President & Chief Executive Officer of the BC Council of Forest Industries (COFI), issued the following statement today in response to a commitment to undertake a...
BCREA: NOVEMBER CANADIAN HOUSING STARTS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian housing starts rose 8 per cent to 262,433 units in November at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR). Starts were up 25 per cent from the same month last year....
CREA: CANADIAN HOME SALES CONTINUE TO CLIMB IN NOVEMBER
OTTAWA – Home sales activity recorded over Canadian MLS® Systems rose again in November, building on October’s surprise jump. Sales were up 2.8% in November compared to October, and now stand a...
MEI: OTTAWA’S SPENDING SPIRALS OUT OF CONTROL WITH $48.3-BILLION SHORTFALL
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government’s broken pledge to keep the deficit below $40.1 billion for 2023-2024 is one more sign the government has lost control of federal finances, asserts an MEI researcher...
CANADIANS WILL PAY $9 BILLION TO IMPLEMENT TRUDEAU’S BAN OF BC SALMON FARMS
Liǧʷiłdaxʷ TERRITORY/CAMPBELL RIVER — A new economic impact report by RIAS Inc. concludes that the Trudeau government's proposed ban on current marine net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia will...