Contents | October 2011
cover story
2011 Entrepreneur of the Year
Meet the class of 2011, this year's Pacific Region winners
by BCBusiness
features
Gold Rush 2.0
All across B.C. amateur miners are getting out their gold pans and partying like it's 1859.
by Christopher Pollon
Boom Time
As copper prices drive a new mining bonanza, small towns welcome an end to their lean years.
by Andrew Findlay
Reinventing Tourism
The mountains may never change, but the tourism businesses that thrive on them have to.
by Jackie Wong
On the Waterfront
What's left of the maritime industry in Victoria's harbour duels with condo owners for survival.
by Brennan Clarke
Profile: Robin Silvester
Port Metro Vancouver CEO Robin Silvester skippers a generational change for B.C.'s first industry.
by Peter Mitham
Making a Case for Legal Education
Believe it or not, B.C. needs more lawyers. And the law schools think new buildings might help.
by Peter Mitham
business briefs
Public Good Private Costs Vancouver's bike lane politics and the real costs of civic infrastructure
Teaching Fashion to the Italians B.C. teaches Italians a thing or two about fashion
The Office Commune Ditching the cubicle for communal work spaces
Inquiring Minds What would you tell a younger you?
Need to Know Creating Better Employee Incentives
Crossroads Surrey Board of Trade president Mary Jane Stenberg
Lunch with Lucy Lucy lunches with the Sun's steely editor Patricia Graham