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De Havilland Canada To Supply India Airline With Twin Otters
VICTORIA – De Havilland Aircraft of Canada announced that Big Charter Private Limited has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase up to ten new Twin Otter Series 400 aircraft for operation by its...
March Capital Region Commercial Real Estate Report
Mile Zero Micro-Brewery Applies For Liquor Manufacturing License LANGFORD Langford’s skyline appears poised for more change as an additional two highrise towers are now before municipal planners...
Amalgamation Discussions Postponed
VICTORIA - Nathan Cullen, Minister of Municipal Affairs, Lisa Helps, mayor of Victoria, and Fred Haynes, mayor of Saanich, have released the following statement about moving forward with the...
OPINION: What About Homes For Those Who Want To Buy Homes
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadians are facing a double-edged homeless crisis. Everyone can see downtown streets increasingly clogged with shopping cart pushing homeless people, who have no place to lay...
BC Real Estate Organization Announces New Leadership
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) announced that Vancouver Island REALTOR® Janice Stromar has been elected as its 2022-2023 Chair at the BCREA Annual Meeting on...
Commercial Real Estate Surge Hits Alberni And West Coast
PORT ALBERNI – It appears that the Alberni Valley’s time has come in regards to commercial real estate. As it is throughout central Vancouver Island, the commercial market is hotter than hot in Port...
WestShore: It’s A Great Time To Make Connections
VICTORIA – Back in December I was fretting somewhat about getting our in-person events confirmed for January. As you know, I need not have worried. After two in-person events in December, we had to...
Victoria Chamber: Throne Speech A Glimpse At Province’s Plans For 2022
VICTORIA - We all benefit from perspective gained from pandemic. Greater Victoria's business community welcomed the news this month that mask and vaccine mandates are being lifted. It was one more...
Merchant House Capital Makes Acquisition Of Apartments In Sidney
SIDNEY – Victoria based real estate investment and development company, Merchant House Capital Inc., has acquired The Waterfront, a mixed use 42-unit luxury apartment property above 8 retail units...
FPAC: Getting Canada’s Economy Back on the Rails – Literally
BRITISH COLUMBIA - When the COVID pandemic hit Canada back in early 2020, Canadians quickly learned how reliant we are on healthy supply chains to provide us with essential services and products....
Island Businesses Win At 2022 BC Tourism And Hospitality Awards
VICTORIA – Some Island Businesses were winners at the recent 2022 BC Tourism & Hospitality Awards. The British Columbia Hotel Association (BCHA) and Tourism Industry Association of BC (TIABC)...
BC Hydro Completes Major Milestone On Site C
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The second and final 500 kilovolt, 75 kilometre transmission line on the Site C project has been completed and energized. With this milestone, the work to connect the new Site C...
2022 Business Excellence Awards Winners Announced!
Celebration Of The Best of Island Business VICTORIA – San Group of Port Alberni was named Business of the Year and Ignition Motorsports of Duncan the Small Business of the Year at the 21st annual...
Sidney, North Saanich And Victoria Airport Authority Form Partnership
Collaboration Will Improve Traffic Flow VICTORIA - The Town of Sidney, District of North Saanich, and Victoria Airport Authority have agreed upon a Memorandum of Understanding to build a roundabout...
Pre-entry COVID Testing Removed As Of April 1st For Travellers
OTTAWA - Effective April 1, 2022 at 12:01 AM EDT, fully vaccinated travellers will no longer need to provide a pre-entry COVID-19 test result to enter Canada by air, land or water according to...