Manufacturing & Transport
Fitting thousands more travellers onto our already-strained roads will be one of the Olympics organizers’ biggest challenges during the upcoming Games . Irene Kerr, of all the Olympics officials, has perhaps the most thankless task. Kerr is the executive in charge of...
How I learned to stop worrying and love bicycling in Vancouver. That guy on the bike who I almost killed when I opened my car door? That girl with the purple hair pedalling so irritatingly slowly that I couldn’t pass her for two blocks? Or the couple riding side by side, talking to each other the whole time? Who the hell do they think they are?
It has one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Its middle class of 300 million people is expected to double in less than 15 years. Is India the Promised Land for B.C.’s beleaguered exporters? Mervyn Pinto thinks so.
Small-time hauler takes on the giants. The owner of a small garbage-hauling business is celebrating a victory over a pair of multi- national competitors after federal watchdogs agreed that their behaviour amounted to “abuse of dominance.” Derek Haarsma says he left the cut-throat...
The new SkyTrain to YVR is great news for most people. But whither the poor cabbie? The Canada Line is running. A train to the airport – it’s about time. I speak as someone who once, in a younger, more foolish...
Recipe for economic survival in turtling times: go with the bling. The North American auto industry may be reeling, with Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp. in bankruptcy and dealerships closing down faster than a Lamborghini on a deserted Saskatchewan highway. But in the niche world of “auto pimping” – popular with the Lower Mainland’s growing legion of gangsters, real and imagined – business is booming.
Spinoffs proving to be a driving force behind next-gen electric cars. About 30 years ago, Ballard Research Inc. started out as a company figuring out how to make high-energy, long-life lithium batteries, and its success was marked by the U.S. Navy signing up as a customer using its batteries in submarines. Yes, lithium batteries, not fuel cells; the company we know today as Ballard Power Systems Inc. emerged from that original focus on extending battery life, and today we all know...
Next February’s Olympics is expected to put Vancouver International Airport’s baggage-handling process through the wringer. But after last December’s snowstorm debacle, many are wondering if YVR can handle the load. Some people might think I needed my head examined. But in January of 2008, I applied to work for Swissport Canada Handling Inc., a company that provides third-party baggage-handling services to WestJet and other airlines flying in and out of Vancouver International Airport.
Construction jobs may have swollen the province’s employment rolls when times were good, but when global financiers Lehman Brothers and others began collapsing last September, the shock waves shook the B.C. construction sector. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 had...
Catalyst is going to court to formally petition for tax relief in the Vancouver Island communities of Campbell River, North Cowichan, and Port Alberni as well as in Powell river. Catalyst says it’s paying way more than its share in...