Central/North Vancouver Island
ADVISORY: CUSTOMER CONVERSATION
VANCOUVER ISLAND - In today’s dynamic business landscape, small and medium sized businesses face a host of challenges. If you’re a budding business owner, you’re wearing a lot of hats while...
ENTREPRENEUR’S EVENTS MAKING WOMEN FEEL WORTHY
By Mark MacDonald, Business Examiner PARKSVILLE –Kelsey Pringle, Jordan Sandhu and Suzanne Hedges want women to feel Worthy. That’s the goal of events that are filling venues on Vancouver Island and...
BDC AND EQUIFAX LAUNCH CANADIAN SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INDEX
OTTAWA - The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Equifax Canada have partnered to launch the Canadian Small Business Health index. By combining actual business data and industry sentiment,...
VIREB: BALANCED MARKET OFFERS THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
NANAIMO – The Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB) recorded 722 unit sales and 4,015 active listings (all property types) board-wide on the MLS® System in October 2024, up 42 per cent and 12...
NANAIMO COLUMN: CHURCH PICKARD CPA JOINS DOANE GRANT THORNTON LLP
Leadership Changes At Alair Homes NANAIMO - Church Pickard Chartered Professional Accountants has joined Doane Grant Thornton LLP, effective November 1. Grant McDonald is the principal of Church...
BCREA: BC HOME SALES BUILDING MOMENTUM HEADING INTO 2025
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its 2024 Fourth Quarter Housing Forecast. Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales in BC are forecast to...
South Vancouver Island
ADVISORY: CUSTOMER CONVERSATION
VANCOUVER ISLAND - In today’s dynamic business landscape, small and medium sized businesses face a host of challenges. If you’re a budding business owner, you’re wearing a lot of hats while...
ENTREPRENEUR’S EVENTS MAKING WOMEN FEEL WORTHY
By Mark MacDonald, Business Examiner PARKSVILLE –Kelsey Pringle, Jordan Sandhu and Suzanne Hedges want women to feel Worthy. That’s the goal of events that are filling venues on Vancouver Island and...
BDC AND EQUIFAX LAUNCH CANADIAN SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INDEX
OTTAWA - The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Equifax Canada have partnered to launch the Canadian Small Business Health index. By combining actual business data and industry sentiment,...
BCREA: BC HOME SALES BUILDING MOMENTUM HEADING INTO 2025
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its 2024 Fourth Quarter Housing Forecast. Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales in BC are forecast to...
SOUTH VANCOUVER ISLAND MOVERS & SHAKERS NOVEMBER 5, 2024
News Impacting Southern Vancouver Island Business VICTORIA Jeff Christie will be appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer at Harris Auto Group. Jim LeBlanc and Scott Pierc, Licence Partners at...
STARFISH MEDICAL ACQUIRES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDICAL DEVICE FIRM
VICTORIA – Full-service medical device development company Starfish Medical has acquired Omnica Corporation, a Southern California firm that designs and engineers medical devices. StarFish Medical...
Thompson Okanagan
ENTREPRENEUR’S EVENTS MAKING WOMEN FEEL WORTHY
By Mark MacDonald, Business Examiner PARKSVILLE –Kelsey Pringle, Jordan Sandhu and Suzanne Hedges want women to feel Worthy. That’s the goal of events that are filling venues on Vancouver Island and...
BDC AND EQUIFAX LAUNCH CANADIAN SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INDEX
OTTAWA - The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Equifax Canada have partnered to launch the Canadian Small Business Health index. By combining actual business data and industry sentiment,...
BCREA: BC HOME SALES BUILDING MOMENTUM HEADING INTO 2025
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its 2024 Fourth Quarter Housing Forecast. Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales in BC are forecast to...
ECABC: GOVERNMENT POLICY IMPACT ON CONTRACTORS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The provincial government has an enormous impact on the construction sector’s operating environment. As a non-partisan industry association, the Electrical Contractors Association...
MEI: THINKTANK TAKES INSPIRATION FROM GERMAN AND NETHERLANDS HEALTH SYSTEMS
OTTAWA - Taking inspiration from German and Dutch health systems could help improve access to primary care providers such as family doctors, according to an MEI publication released this morning....
BCREA: CANADIAN GDP UNCHANGED IN AUGUST
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian real GDP was essentially unchanged in August, following a 0.1 per cent increase in July. Service-producing industries grew by 0.1 per cent, while goods-producing...
Fraser Valley
BDC AND EQUIFAX LAUNCH CANADIAN SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INDEX
OTTAWA - The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Equifax Canada have partnered to launch the Canadian Small Business Health index. By combining actual business data and industry sentiment,...
BCREA: BC HOME SALES BUILDING MOMENTUM HEADING INTO 2025
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its 2024 Fourth Quarter Housing Forecast. Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales in BC are forecast to...
TRANSLINK SEEKING PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE USES OF RETIRING SKYTRAIN CARS
SURREY - TransLink is seeking innovative ideas and proposals from organizations who would like to make use of some of the roughly 150 retiring Mark I SkyTrain cars, the first vehicles in the...
LANGLEY CHAMBER: GDP FLAT IN AUGUST WITH ZERO GROWTH
LANGLEY - Data for Business’ is an effort of the Langley Chamber, in partnership with the Canadian Chamber, to bring our members reports, stats, and analysis on economic and business data to help...
FRASER VALLEY MOVERS & SHAKERS NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Fraser Valley Business News DELTA Options Community Services Society has begun the process of finding a new CEO as Christine Mohr will be leaving her position as CEO on June 30, 2025....
GREEN SHEET FRASER VALLEY BUILDING BRIEFS: NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Location: Township of Langley (industrial) Address: 22652 Fraser Hwy - Industrial Business Park - Wesmont Park Description: New multi tenant industrial development - 5 structures - Bldg A, approx 7...
Northern BC
BDC AND EQUIFAX LAUNCH CANADIAN SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INDEX
OTTAWA - The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) and Equifax Canada have partnered to launch the Canadian Small Business Health index. By combining actual business data and industry sentiment,...
BCREA: BC HOME SALES BUILDING MOMENTUM HEADING INTO 2025
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) released its 2024 Fourth Quarter Housing Forecast. Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) residential sales in BC are forecast to...
ECABC: GOVERNMENT POLICY IMPACT ON CONTRACTORS
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The provincial government has an enormous impact on the construction sector’s operating environment. As a non-partisan industry association, the Electrical Contractors Association...
MEI: THINKTANK TAKES INSPIRATION FROM GERMAN AND NETHERLANDS HEALTH SYSTEMS
OTTAWA - Taking inspiration from German and Dutch health systems could help improve access to primary care providers such as family doctors, according to an MEI publication released this morning....
BCREA: CANADIAN GDP UNCHANGED IN AUGUST
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian real GDP was essentially unchanged in August, following a 0.1 per cent increase in July. Service-producing industries grew by 0.1 per cent, while goods-producing...
RECENT B.C. GOVERNMENT SECTOR EMPLOYMENT GREW BY 22% VS 0.5% GROWTH IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR
BRITISH COLUMBIA - BC’s net job creation from 2019-23 has been driven almost exclusively by growth in government employment rather than the private sector, at 22 per cent and 0.5 per cent over the...