Nathan Caddell
Recent Posts on BCBusiness
Three B.C.-based companies made recruiting site Glassdoor’s annual ranking of the 25 best places to work in Canada, which on first blush seems a tad embarrassing. However, it’s important to note that the list includes businesses that operate in Canada, not just those based here. For example, a little company based in Redmond...
Is there anything more Canadian than a good samaritan hockey player stopping a robbery? Probably not. Add in the fact that he stopped a bike-riding assailant, and we’re pretty sure you won’t find anything more Vancouver, either. With any luck, our other items similarly encapsulate our province. Won’t be easy. Here’s what made...
For a second there, it looked like transportation in the province was about to experience a major shift. With advertisements teasing that Uber and Lyft would be in Vancouver imminently and the city facing a public transit strike, it looked like...
There are few things we enjoy more in this world than an ironclad, bulletproof excuse. So the imminent transit shutdown facing commuters (all transit services will halt on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Vancouver, pending a resolution to the strike) presents...
The first vending machines were reportedly created around 1615 in England. Made of brass, they dispensed tobacco in exchange for coins. It’s not that far off from the contraptions we see today in schools and community centres. Sure, most have...
Hey, hello, hi. We at the BCBusiness Report Card would not like to apologize for having missed the past couple weeks (undisclosed upper body injury). Rather, we’re going to treat the facts like BC Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson did in a recent...
Greg McDougall has yet to make the cover of this magazine, and that’s probably fine in his books. “You ever hear of the BCBusiness curse?” he asks, reclining in an ergonomic chair in one of Harbour Air Seaplanes’ downtown Vancouver boardrooms.
If there’s any doubt about the immense power of social media, one needs only look at Alexa Suter. Back in 2013, when Instagram was still a shadow of what it has become, Suter gained notoriety as an influencer, commanding tens...
Did something happen last week? Maybe something that will collectively determine our future as a nation? Just kidding; we were there for all of it, including the fateful, final end that will really serve as more of a beginning to government infighting...
You know that common trope of a character in a movie or TV show moving back home from the big city and realizing that, actually, they like the small-town charms they find? Well, that’s not exactly Annika Lewis’s life, but...
Wayne Wachell got a bit of a late start with the game of tennis, but he’s more than made up for it over the years. The then–University of Alberta student was 20 when he began watching Argentine tennis sensation Guillermo...
We're not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s a federal election coming up. BCBusiness profiles the ridings in the province that are most vulnerable, according to 338Canada.com. Today’s edition focuses on Vancouver Granville. We’re less than a week away from the...