Life Lessons: Michelle Kelsey
Owner of Nannies on Call has learned you must bend over backwards to keep your company's good employees
View ArticleBiggest breweries and beer distributors in B.C.
Ranked by sales to the British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch (BCLDB) for year ending March 31, 2013
View ArticleFive steps to owning your own business in the post-baby boom business sell-off
In the next five years, PwC forecasts 300,000 small-business owners in B.C. will retire or sell their businesses. That number is predicted to rise to almost 600,000 owners in the next 10 years. Who...
View ArticleControversial new recycling regime lets some small businesses off the hook
The operators of a controversial new provincial recycling system have introduced more changes to reduce the cost and paperwork for certain small businesses.Six months ago, small business owners were...
View ArticleMetro Vancouver home sales jump 30.3% in January
Metro Vancouver home sales stabilized in January, following a sluggish 2013, when sales were dramatically below the 10-year average, according to numbers that the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver...
View ArticleVFX sector holds job fair, conference
Joannah Connolly discusses Vancouver's thriving visual effects industry and the shortage of skilled recruits
View ArticleWalmart's $500m expansion plans
Joannah Connolly reports on Walmart Canada's plans to build 35 new supercentres
View ArticleCIBC, RBC roll out mobile payment apps
Smartphone users are increasingly able to conduct financial transactions by using apps on their devices.
View ArticleAffordable housing a generational challenge for B.C.
Anyone born in the 21st century should kiss goodbye any hope of buying a house in Vancouver.
View ArticleThe overqualification equation: higher education, fewer jobs
Canada could be falling into a suboptimal equilibrium, in which a growing share of the working-age population has the wrong skills or inadequate educational preparation for the available jobs
View ArticleRegulatory complexities inhibiting Canada's economic growth
Canada's economic and social union is weak and ill equipped for the 21st-century economy
View ArticleSurrey pushes $1.8 billion light rail plan
City survey finds strong support for LRT among developers and business owners, but TransLink has yet to decide on rapid transit options
View ArticleAsk the experts: It's a new year, and I need a new resumé. What should...
Recipe for a rejuvenated resumé: do your research, embrace digital avenues, be brief
View ArticleLiving wage laws don’t help the needy
Aside from failing to help the poorest workers, living wage laws can also lead to higher municipal taxes
View ArticleHealth Canada pulls not-so-natural products from Burnaby store
Products marketed as natural health products, but which Health Canada says contained undeclared prescription drugs that could be harmful, have been yanked from the shelves of Burnaby retailer West Box.
View ArticlePoCo's VendTek Systems sells Canadian business to focus on Brazil
VendTek Systems Inc. (TSX-V:VSI), a Port Coquitlam-based company specializing in prepaid and financial services software, has sold its Canadian business operations to the company's outgoing senior vice...
View ArticleSurrey office vacancies soar to nine-year high
City suffers highest annual negative absorption on record
View ArticleB.C. shippers irked over stalled Metro Vancouver truck routes
Transportation study finds little progress being made in reducing truckers’ travel time and unsnarling major port logistics infrastructure
View ArticleViaSport British Columbia boss and ex-VANOC sports czar building the business...
Former Canadian Olympian Cathy Priestner Allinger is harnessing her long Olympic Games experience to expand B.C.’s amateur sport agency
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