This article was published in the Winter 2025 issue of the Truck Logger BC Magazine BRITISH COLUMBIA - Affordability is a trending word of the day and for good reason; the stresses of handling the...
THOMPSON OKANAGAN BUSINESS NEWS
ICBA ECONOMICS: 2025-26 FORECAST
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist BRITISH COLUMBIA - As a new year beckons, Canadian policymakers and business leaders find themselves staring at an unsettled economic landscape that renders...
MINIMUM RATES INCREASE ON DEC. 31 FOR FARM WORKERS WHO HAND HARVEST CROPS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Minimum piece rates for hand harvesting specified farm crops will increase by 3.9% on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. The increase applies to 15 agricultural crops harvested by hand as...
MNP WELCOMES 21 BDO CANADA OFFICES, PARTNERS, TEAMS, ACROSS FOUR PROVINCES
BRITISH COLUMBIA - MNP and BDO, two of Canada’s leading professional services firms, announced today that MNP will acquire a select number of BDO’s Canadian offices, partners and team members,...
BRITISH COLUMBIA MOVERS & SHAKERS DECEMBER 27, 2024
News Influencing Decision Makers in BC Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia, a Governor of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, has been appointed as the next Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Sharon...
BCREA: RETAIL SALES UP .9% IN BC FOR OCTOBER
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,...
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: TAXPAYERS IN LIMBO AS PROROGUING MUDDIES CAPITAL GAINS WATERS
Kelowna Chamber Blog KELOWNA - Now that Parliament is prorogued (until March 24) no bills can be considered/passed. However, the federal Finance Department announced on January 7 that the CRA would...
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...