Manufacturing & Transport
The sanctions imposed on Russia forced the world’s third largest oil producer to seek new, more distant markets in China and India rather than just sending oil by pipeline to traditional markets in Europe. That triggered a scramble for ships and made average voyages longer.
Life Story: From an early age, Vivian Liu had a passion for the testosterone-fuelled world of cars: “In high school, I had a lot of friends who were working in the auto shop, and we would work on cars together...
Life Story: As a kid, Sarb Purewal was always curious about what his father was up to. Growing up in Langley and Surrey, he saw his Punjabi immigrant dad start out as a truck driver and work hard to build...
Life Story: For Sukhmanjit Sidhu, the decision to launch an entrepreneurial venture in transportation came naturally. Sidhu was raised by a family of entrepreneurs in India’s Punjab state: his grandfather and father had their hands in a number of endeavours...
Life Story: Edward Tung has always been interested in tech and entrepreneurship. He started coding at 11 years old, but even before that, when he was delivering newspapers as a nine-year-old, he employed his friends with a portion of his...
Walking into Chris Quinn’s corner office, one can’t help but glance over at the autographed, framed Roberto Luongo and Trevor Linden jerseys and wonder if Quinn himself still thinks about the future that almost was. Raised in Kelowna to what he...
Bast Fibre Technologies might be the most stereotypical Victoria business of all time. Run out of the University of Victoria’s Vancouver Island Technology Park, the company manufactures hemp fibre on an industrial scale in an attempt to replace plastic and...
The stock: For years, clever financiers have tried to capture the statistically superior returns of private equity in a publicly traded security accessible to ordinary investors—that is, without the minimum investment thresholds, high fees and lock-in periods. Their efforts have...
The Burnaby Mountain gondola is expected to be 50 percent faster than current transit commutes up the hill
BCBusiness + Breakthrough Studios The past five years have seen unprecedented growth in ecommerce, and one BC-based company is making sure Canadian businesses are keeping up. For more than two decades, the team at Breakthrough Studios (BTS) has been entrenched in the...