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An intimate gathering of 200 guests attended the Army & Navy’s 100th birthday celebrations at the flagship store in Gastown. Guests wandered the renovated store, enjoyed food and drink and shopped the night away. Jacqui Cohen, Army & Navy Department...
BCBusiness + Pavilion Cowork Ever since the first shared office space launched in San Francisco over a decade ago, coworking has become a global movement. People have embraced the concept of communal office spaces, which provide not only shared amenities and resources...
BCBusiness + Montridge Advisory Group A recent State Street Global Advisors survey found that nearly 60 percent of employees are emotionally stressed and distracted by their financial situations, “to the point where worksite productivity is being compromised by absenteeism, decreasing engagement, and other...
Coming after a week in which all the Canadian teams were officially eliminated from the NHL playoffs, here’s something else that will just feel right for some reason you can't really explain. It’s time for Good Week/Bad Week, where we attempt...
Waters remain turbulent, but the country’s mining industry seems to be coming out of the storm. Although the sector took a hit on the Toronto Stock Exchange last year, recent mega-deals could help right the ship, according to PwC Canada’s latest Canadian Mine...
B.C.’s tech innovators are showing off their skills this week. The Technology Impact Awards (TIAs), a competition recognizing the province’s top startup performers, has revealed its 2019 finalists. Hosted by the BC Tech Association, which aims to “make B.C. the best place to grow a tech company,” the 26th annual TIAs come...
Despite his name, these days Ronald McDonald House CEO Richard Pass keeps his basketball pretty much to himself. That’s because he no longer plays on a team as he once did—as a guard in high school and university in his...
Address: 1588 West 54th Avenue, South Granville Price: $12,888,888 Listing: R2347935 The skinny: Eight-bedroom, 10-bathroom, 8,364-square-foot house on a 12,537-square-foot lot in South Granville The bling: Well, by gosh, by golly: what a lot you get here for your lolly. Seriously, this is a veritable behemoth...
The biggest mortgage lender in the U.S. is about to get a new Canadian addition to its family. This morning, Rock Holdings, parent company of lending giant Quicken Loans, announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Lendesk, a Vancouver-based mortgage tech company that...