Finance
ATTACK VECTOR Telephone (recorded message) THE SCAM “Canada Revenue Agency” calls to inform you that you owe thousands of dollars in back taxes and/or fines; if you don’t pay them right away, you’ll be prosecuted or jailed THE GOAL Money THE TELL The real...
BCBusiness + Manning Elliott LLP It’s a temptation for Canadians with U.S. vacation property to seek tax advice from fellow Canadians who have spent years adhering to regulations and paying taxes on their homes down south. But while getting input from other property...
BCBusiness + Pacific M&A and Business Brokers Ltd. One doesn’t normally associate business matters with music, but when it comes to the task of selling a business, Pino Bacinello, president of Pacific M&A and Business Brokers Ltd., is compelled to associate the...
In 2014, after 30 years with Vancouver’s Ventures West Capital, where he focused on cleantech and communications investments, Sam Znaimer founded Locarno Capital, a private equity fund manager that invests in the fast-growing cannabis industry. He once advised clients in Canada and the U.S., but the latter is no longer part...
BCBusiness + Pacific M&A and Business Brokers Ltd. Developing any business takes years of effort, but a recent survey by the International Business Brokers Association, in co-operation with M&A Source and Pepperdine University, found that 88 percent of business owners in the...
BCBusiness + BMO Only a financial organization operating with BMO’s “One Bank” approach can navigate the diverse challenges of today’s business world. BMO is Canada’s oldest incorporated bank—and BCBusiness caught up with its B.C. & Yukon executive team to speak to their...
It isn’t every day you get to chase a talk by a best-selling author with some of the world’s best whiskies. More than 200 people recently had that privilege when they gathered at the Imperial Vancouver for the latest instalment of the Be Wise Speaker Series & Whisky Festival. The event...
As October brings a slew of local and national celebrations for small business—including B.C.’s Small Business Week, running the 15th through the 19th—we look at the big impact of little enterprise on this province
BCBusiness + BMO Bank of Montreal Traditionally, entrepreneurs in the agriculture industry have struggled to get ongoing help from financial institutions, and the challenges are intensified for those in the winery sector. That’s been the case with Sean Salem and his wife...
BCBusiness + Oyen Wiggs One of the great satisfactions of entrepreneurship is creating new and beneficial ideas, and being able to claim an intellectual property (IP) right such as a patent as one’s own. However, there is no end of those who...