BCBusiness’s Favourite Award-Winning Stories

A look back at some of BCBusiness’s favourite award-winning stories from the last decade.
As BCBusiness celebrates its 40th year of publishing, it’s time to reflect back on our own major milestones. Over the years, the title and its contents have

In Search of Answers
Issue: August 2010

Award: Western Magazine Award for Best Business Story

Summary: In a province famous for its drug culture – where marijuana is our top cash crop and where strung-out addicts are part of the modern Vancou

Managed to Fail
Issue: July 2009

Award: Western Magazine Award for Best Business Story of 2010

Summary: The Pacific Region division – centred in Vancouver and covering B.C. and the Yukon – is the largest branch of the six at the Departm

Squish to Swish?
Issue: July 2007

Award: Western Magazine Award for Best Business Story of 2008

Summary: Squamish’s downtown waterfront property has failed to take off, with mixed-use plans fizzling and industrial use voted down.Such abandonm

Wealth Care
Issue: August 2006

Award: National Magazine Award Honourable Mention for Health and Medicine Feature of 2006

Summary: Critics say privatization of health care in Canada could cause a polarization of services, diving medical care between

Breakaway
Issue: February 2005

Award: National Magazine Award Honourable Mention for Business in 2005

Summary: So what if the plan costs $10 million, needs the NHL’s buy-in, a national broadcaster, a major sponsor, thousands of hockey players

What’s Wrong With B.C.?
Issue: June 2004

Award: Albertans are more productive, Ontarians work harder, and even New Brunswick does a better job in education. What’s B.C.’s problem? Maybe it’s you.
But whatever you do, don’t

Den of Inequity
Issue: October 2010

Award: National Magazine Award Honourable Mention for Service: Personal Finance and Business Category

Summary: B.C. is a leader in righting social wrongs through charitable business ventures. But as social enterp