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The 300 well-dressed guests and business leaders who turned out for the inaugural Face the World Today Gala raised $925,000 for local charities. Local philanthropist Jacqui Cohen, Army & Navy president and Face the World founder, joined forces with her...
BCBusiness + Shaw Business Canadian consumers are more connected than ever. In between accepting meeting invitations and sending emails, they are also browsing products, buying services, ordering meals, and shopping online. As a result of this increased online presence, many small and medium-sized business owners are finding that they need to...
Apart from the gleaming tractor unit in the middle of the room, the Holodeck looks like a big empty warehouse. Have I come to the right place? I slip on a pair of Microsoft HoloLens glasses, tightening the band against...
From Larry Commodore’s vantage point near Chilliwack at the top of the Fraser Valley, the Trans Mountain Expansion Project isn’t a done deal. “Not going to happen,” vows the former two-term chief of the Soowahlie nation turned grassroots activist. Commodore...
BCBusiness + Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP Investors have seen the value of tech companies increase for years. Local high-profile exits, like Vancouver’s Recon Instruments (bought by Intel for $180 million), make it easier for other companies to raise money. Government programs are also leading the way: there is the Venture Capital...
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BCBusiness + Manning Elliott LLP It started as a hobby: fermenting brews in the garage or the basement and sharing the results with friends. But that hobby grew into a passion, and then a business. So goes the story for many of...
470 per cent—That’s the premium ticket-seekers were facing on resale sites in January, only minutes after U2 seats went on sale for the May 12 concert at Vancouver’s BC Place. The rise of ticket-buying software—known as scalper bots—has been increasingly...
For the past decade, networking experts Gayle Hallgren-Rezac, Judy Thomson and Darcy Rezac at Shepa Learning Company have been surveying their clients to discover their networking challenges. Based on more than 5,000 survey responses, they have suggested the following solutions to the top 10 challenges.
New oil and gas pipelines are winning approval in B.C. and across the country, but the world is also shifting in new directions. Global investment in green energy hit a record of almost US$286 billion last year, according to the...