KELOWNA - Bird Construction Inc. (TSX: BDT) announced that it has been selected as construction manager for the Vancouver Community College Centre for Clean Energy and Automotive Innovation and the...
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Bank of Canada Maintains Policy Rate, Continues Quantitative Tightening
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada today held its target for the overnight rate at 5%, with the Bank Rate at 5¼% and the deposit rate at 5%. The Bank is also continuing its policy of quantitative...
Rocky Point Engineering: Retrofits To New Building Mechanical Design
NANAIMO – Rocky Point Engineering (RPE) has been involved in the building industry since 1997, on projects ranging from small-scale retrofits to new building design. Along the way, they’ve been...
Cascadia Architects Inc: Experts in Design-Building-Community
VICTORIA – Cascadia Architects Inc. is known in the industry as “Design-Building-Community” experts. Owners and Principal Architects Peter Johannknecht and Greg Damant started the company in 2012,...
Victoria’s Ping DSP has been acquired by NORBIT
VICTORIA - NORBIT announced the acquisition of the Canadian maritime technology company PING DSP. The acquisition will broaden the product offering in the NORBIT's Oceans segment. “With the target...
Victoria Real Estate Market Needs Better Mix Of Housing Supply
VICTORIA - A total of 544 properties sold in the Victoria Real Estate Board region this August, 13.8 per cent more than the 478 properties sold in August 2022 and an 8.6 per cent decrease from July...
August Capital Region Commercial Real Estate Report
By Mike Kozakowski of Citified.ca ESQUIMALT A groundbreaking ceremony was held along the Gorge Waterway last week for Central Block, a six-storey, 99-suite condominium...
Second Quarter Results Show Canadian GDP Roughly Unchanged
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian real GDP fell by 0.2 per cent from the prior month in June, following a 0.2 per cent increase in May. The decline was led by weak wholesale trade, which contracted 3 per...
ALUULA Working With UBC On New Recycling Applications
VICTORIA – Advanced materials technology firm ALUULA Composites is collaborating with the University of British Columbia to develop new recycling applications for the company’s composite materials....
Nominations Open for Fraser Valley Commercial Building Awards
SURREY – On October 26th the Fraser Valley will have its very own celebration of commercial construction excellence. Coming to the Sheraton Guildford, the 2023 Fraser Valley Commercial Building...
Victoria Chamber: Advocacy Is More Than Entertainment
GREATER VICTORIA - A few years back, before the pandemic rewired so much of our daily routines and outlooks, the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce began the process of renewing our website. We...
OPINION: Chambers Of Commerce Should Play Their Strongest Hand: Advocacy
BRITISH COLUMBIA - One of the more subtle casualties of the Covid Pandemic has been membership in Chambers of Commerce throughout the province. When the business organization decided to shift its...
VRBA: Trudeau Has “Carriage” of Indexing GST Rebate to Inflation
VICTORIA - Prime Minister Trudeau recently said: “I’ll be blunt as well — housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility. It’s not something that we have direct carriage of. But it is something that...
BCREA: BC Housing Market Resilient Despite High Rates
BCREA 2023 Third Quarter Housing Forecast BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its 2023 Third Quarter Housing Forecast Update recently. Multiple Listing...
Coastal Community Donates $20,000 for Wildfire Relief Efforts
The Credit Union supports the Canadian Red Cross BC Fires Appeal with a donation to help people in need VANCOUVER ISLAND — With thousands of British Columbians impacted by an unprecedented wildfire...
New Owners at Cooper Pacific Mortgage Investment Corporation
VICTORIA – A passing of the torch is taking place at the Cooper Pacific Mortgage Investment Corporation family firm. Morley Cooper, who founded the company in 1994 in Victoria, together with a group...