$1.635 Million In Funding Available In Greater Victoria For Charities Supporting COVID-19 Response VICTORIA - United Way Greater Victoria and the Victoria Foundation are now accepting funding...
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Rent Relief Becoming Make-Or-Break For Many Businesses
CECRA money should go straight to tenants if landlord doesn’t apply; provinces urged (again) to put in place temporary commercial rent protection; CEBA expansion could help A majority of small...
Boosting The Local Food Supply Chain With An Abattoir
VICTORIA - South Island Prosperity Partnership (SIPP) is pleased to announce they have received $12,500 in funding to commission a feasibility study for a local abattoir. The abattoir would be used...
9 Keys To Success In Digital Customer Service
Customer service is about solving the problems of your customers. Now, with a dramatically different business environment companies have to manage customer service across multiple channels. Whose...
BC Chamber Applauds Provincial Restart Plan
Today Premier Horgan laid out how BC’s economy will safely reopen, a move welcomed by BC’s business community. While health and safety restrictions will mean a radically different operating...
Energy Sector Helping Canada Weather Covid-19 Storm
Governments have been forced to take bold actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and simultaneous economic crisis. For the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) and our member...
Bruce Williams Named New CEO Of The Chamber
VICTORIA – The Board of Directors of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce has selected Bruce Williams to become the organization’s next CEO, effective June 15. John Wilson, chair of The...
A Careful, Phased Approach To The Reopening Of The Economy
CFIB Says BC's Rules Have Been Far More Sensible CFIB welcomes the careful, phased approach to the reopening of the economy which began today in several provinces. For background, 80 per cent of...
Cascadia Air Launches Amid COVID-19 With Rapid Emergency Air Delivery
Emergency Routes Transport Essential Personnel And Supplies To Communities Across BC British Columbia - Cascadia Air, British Columbia’s newest commuter airline has opted to forego the launch of its...
Online applications open for BC Emergency Benefit for Workers
British Columbians whose ability to work has been affected because of the COVID-19 pandemic and are receiving the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) can now apply for the BC Emergency Benefit...
Results Released of Business Survey on the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Canadian Survey on Business Conditions (CSBC), a joint effort between Statistics Canada and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, provides the most detailed insight yet into the impact of COVID-19...
BE DIGITAL – 9 Keys To Success In Digital Customer Service
Customer service is about solving the problems of your customers. Now, with a dramatically different business environment companies have to manage customer service across...
Government Of Canada Announces New Canadian Seafood Stabilization Fund
Canadian Seafood Stabilization Fund April 25,2020 Canada’s fish and seafood sector is essential to our collective food security and our economy. The Government of Canada recognizes the need to...
Northern Development Partners With Support Local BC For Gift Card Program
PRINCE GEORGE – Northern Development announced today that it has partnered with Support Local BC to promote the purchase of gift cards from Love Northern BC (LNBC) businesses. Support Local BC...
New Service—Covid19therapy.Ca—Launched On April 27th
VICTORIA - In response to the evolving pandemic, a team of counselling and technology professionals have launched COVID-19 Therapy (covid19therapy.ca)—a service dedicated to connecting registered...
Income Tax And Economic Policies Updates For 2020
Updated April 27, 2020 We are not going to tell you all the details relating to the medical issues of Covid 19, or what steps the BC Ministry of Health is currently recommending – we will...