T Melanson

Past two tight rows of computer monitors and office chairs, with little elbow room and a lot of exposed wires, Andrew Fursman leads a visitor into a cramped meeting room. Inside, where a whiteboard and glass walls are covered in mathematical equations, the 35-year-old CEO of 1QBit attempts to explain...

LIFE AFTER PRINT? Four online-only news sites that are popular with locals Vancity Buzz | VancouverCastanet | Kelowna250 News | Prince GeorgeEnergeticcity.ca | Fort St. John 2015 may mark the end of the two-newspaper town in B.C. Declining ad revenue has led to rapid consolidation in the industry, with B.C.’s two newspaper conglomerates (Surrey-based Black Press and...

For a city of just 30,000 residents, Fort St. John punches above its weight. The northeastern town is B.C.’s oil-and-gas heartland, along with neighbouring Dawson Creek, and home to some of the highest incomes in the province; it is also, according to this magazine’s 2015 Best Cities for Work list...

Around the world, Hootsuite is famous for its social media dashboard, the go-to for companies managing multiple Facebook and Twitter accounts—which, these days, is pretty much all of them. But here in B.C., the company is known for another rather remarkable accomplishment: staying home. The Vancouver-based tech titan went from 20...

THE B.C. CONNECTION Party leaders who came from B.C.: John Turner (Liberals, 1984-1990)Kim Campbell (PC, 1993)Stockwell Day (Canadian Alliance, 2000-2001)Elizabeth May (Green, 2006-present) As you may have heard, there will be a federal election on October 19—and for the first time since Stephen Harper became PM in 2006, the outcome in B.C. is...

Just the beginning By now, you've likely seen the news: Following a five-day negotiation in Atlanta, the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade agreement between a dozen nations including Canada—has been signed, and it's big news for B.C. (Although, each member state must still individually ratify their involvement, meaning it's far from a done...

Meet the new deanSimon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business has a new boss, and his name is Ali Dastmalchian. Dastmalchian is new to SFU, having joined from the University of Victoria's Gustavson School of Business, where he currently works as a professor of organization studies and international business and...

“I fired my entire company in 1994, all 11 people, because I realized I had the wrong people,” says Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO of 1-800-Got-Junk. He then hired a whole new team. “It taught me to never, ever compromise on the quality of people you bring into your organization.” Now...

Lululemon’s billionaire founder Chip Wilson is wearing flip-flops to the glamour-packed launch party of Kit and Ace’s new flagship clothing store in Kitsilano. His 26-year-old son, JJ, is there in a black tank top, while Shannon Wilson—Chip’s wife, JJ’s stepmom—is wearing a striped T-shirt. A dress-down affair? Perhaps. But at...

Lululemon’s billionaire founder Chip Wilson is wearing flip-flops to the glamour-packed launch party of Kit and Ace’s new flagship clothing store in Kitsilano. His 26-year-old son, JJ, is there in a black tank top, while Shannon Wilson—Chip’s wife, JJ’s stepmom—is wearing a striped T-shirt. A dress-down affair? Perhaps. But at...

Timber! On Friday, the B.C. government approved a permit for Teal-Jones Group, a forestry company, to begin logging an area of old-growth forest on Vancouver Island. Not everyone's happy. “This type of old-growth forest is simply too rare to destroy, and the fact that the government isn’t responding to this crisis is...

MoneypuckCanucks tickets for the 2015-16 seasons will, for the first time ever, feature "dynamic pricing." In other words, the cost of a single-game ticket will fluctuate according to a real-time algorithm that factors in supply and demand, who's playing and more. That's good news if you want to watch the...