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Ten years ago this month, some 2,600 athletes from around the globe were gearing up to head to the XXI Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Whether or not you loved the massive party that followed, it’s tough to dispute that...
World Housing House Party, Change the Rules for Girls’ inaugural fundraising event, attracted more than 150 guests and VIPs to the Livingspace showroom in Vancouver. Celebrating philanthropy and innovation, the gathering raised more than $480,000 for the Girls 2 Grannies project in Cambodia...
Treana Peake started fundraising at a very young age, when she would run garage sales and the like in the small rural town of Hanna, Alberta. Eventually she started organizing concerts featuring her future husband, Ryan Peake, who would later...
“Talent is the biggest driver of success, and a recruiter’s job is to get the talent,” writes Caroline Stokes in her new book, Elephants Before Unicorns: Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies to Save Your Company. The self-described human capital entrepreneur did marketing and PR for firms like Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Nokia Corp. before moving from the U.K. to Vancouver in 2006...
Buyer beware? In B.C., it’s more like buyer despair. The province’s volatile housing market has led to a drop in prices, but affordability remains a problem. Even with low unemployment and rising wages, owning a home remains out of reach...
After sitting on the market for 111 days, the most expensive property to sell last week was a modern single-family home in Vancouver’s exclusive Point Grey neighbourhood. Built in 2016, the four-bedroom, five-bathroom house sold for 85 percent of the $6.25-million list price...
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Leah Alexandra is both a jewelry business started in 2006 and the first two names of its founder, Leah Belford. In addition to demi-fine items, the Gastown studio produces handmade earrings, necklaces and rings using 14-karat gold, pearls and semiprecious...
Everyone knows that B.C. is home to some exceptional female business talent. Our new Women of the Year Awards aim to recognize the very best. The finalists for the inaugural competition, who hail from organizations large and small across the province...
The 2020 Hopwired Festival, at the Croatian Cultural Centre on Commercial Drive in Vancouver, features breweries and coffee roasters from across Canada and the U.S., plus the Espressotec coffee-inspired cocktail competition and a lager bar offering samples from Bellingham’s award-winning...