Nick Rockel
Recent Posts on BCBusiness
A building as a giant rechargeable battery? Besides providing zero-emission vehicles with clean, renewable power, a local innovation could help cities run better. UBC’s faculty of applied science recently broke ground on the Renewable Energy Hub, which aims to turn a...
There’s nothing like a global pandemic to put brand loyalty to the test. When our research partner Ipsos conducted its latest B.C.’s Most Loved Brands survey in January, British Columbians had suffered through almost a year of COVID lockdowns, health woes...
For the complete interview, check out The BCBusiness Podcast. How has COVID-19 impacted Vancity? When the pandemic hit, we knew that we had to take a lot of our capital reserves and put them where they would do the most good. And...
As B.C. struggles to save its forests, a local startup is helping other countries to regrow theirs. Its reforestation efforts with farmers around the world have caught the eye of major food brands—and won support from Google. In April, from among...
It’s fair to say that Jill Schnarr has always worked at Telus. During her holidays while earning a business administration degree from Western University, Vancouver-born Schnarr pulled shifts as a phone operator for its predecessor, BC Tel. “It was such...
When Karimah Es Sabar turned seven, her father gave her a chemistry set as a birthday present. “Ever since then, I’ve been in love with science,” says the B.C. biotech pioneer. Es Sabar left her native Kenya for England, where she...
Jennifer Johnstone and Candice Appleby headline our Nonprofit Leader category.
Meet a couple of B.C.'s top entrepreneurial leaders.
Before they became new parents early last year, Anne Hunger and her partner went hunting for a stroller. They didn’t like what they saw. “It became apparent pretty quickly that strollers are not very smart,” recalls Hunger, who worked as...
Carole Herder left Vancouver in 1993 to get away from it all. Her children’s clothing business, whose clients included Holt Renfrew, Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue, had suffered in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement. So Herder...