Vendor misconceptions limiting industrial real estate sales: Avison Young
Industrial real estate sales in 2013 were dampened because of vendor misconceptions relating to potential land-use options, according to a January 20 Avison Young market report.
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Joannah Connolly discusses the City of Vancouver's reaction to Bixi's bankruptcy
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Beverlie Dietze has joined Okanagan College as its new director of learning and teaching. Dietze has spent nearly three decades in the sector in a variety of roles that include faculty member,...
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Darryl E. Jacobs has been appointed president at International Water-Guard Industries Inc., replacing Bruce MacCoubrey, who will work to transition the leadership of the IWG team to Jacobs and will...
View ArticleAsk the experts: What three areas of a company's business need evaluating at...
Start the new year off by re-examining your finances, marketing and industry positioning
View ArticleConsistency key to B.C.’s 2014 economic opportunities
Investors can adjust to almost any tax regime and regulatory environment. What they have real trouble with is uncertainty and unexpected changes
View ArticleHuman resources report: How to increase employee engagement through corporate...
Good corporate social responsibility or corporate giving practices can create a human connection to the company in ways that other elements of the job might not
View ArticleCanada, Australia, the U.S. topped list of countries with most significant...
While exploration success among the world's top mining destinations varied last year as a result of market uncertainty, the countries with the top 10 exploration budgets attracted a total of US$7.8...
View ArticleTroubled Victoria developer League forced to liquidate properties
Financially troubled Victoria developer League group of companies has started selling some of its properties under a six-month court-imposed deadline.
View ArticleMP aims to patch open net with porn and piracy blocks
Conservative Joy Smith’s proposed legislation that would force Canadian Internet providers to limit public access to websites could be expensive for smaller providers
View ArticleWidespread cull looms in junior mining sector: analysts
Market realities to eliminate weak links and benefit viable exploration companies
View ArticleHuman resources report: Employer communication is key to heading off employee...
Courts can force employers to compensate injured or disabled workers if their coverage is found to be inadequate
View ArticleB.C. wholesale trade falls in November: StatsCan
Wholesale trade in British Columbia fell 1.3% in November to $4.76 billion, according to Statistics Canada data released January 21.
View ArticleALR to blame for Vancouver's unaffordable real estate: Demographia
Vancouver real estate ranks as the second most expensive in nine countries in the developed world as a multiple of the average resident's income for the second year in a row, according to St....
View Article$3.4 million sale unlocks equity in corporate art
New technologies erode value of originals, spark corporate art collection debate
View ArticleSurrey lumber companies lament fibre shortage
Business leader warns that more local mills will disappear unless timber sales focus on the domestic marketplace and local companies have open access to B.C. logs
View ArticleCompanies should resist the urge to run with the herd
Business is infatuated with copying
View ArticleEmployers split on how to deal with skills gap
Although businesses in Canada say dealing with a skills gap is one of their biggest challenges, they are divided on how to deal with a shortage of skilled workers, according to the results of a...
View ArticleBuildDirect secures $30m in financing, plans 300 new hires this year
Vancouver's BuildDirect – which is well on its way to becoming the Amazon of home building products – has secured $30 million in series B financing and plans to add 300 new employees this year to its...
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