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Last year more than 1,300 business leaders and VIPs gathered at the Vancouver Convention Centre to honour the finalists of EY’s 23rd Entrepreneur of the Year Awards and network before the ceremony. This year’s event recognizes 36 entrepreneurs for their...
Working in both polar extremes, Andrew Prossin has anything but an ordinary business life. The managing director of Squamish-headquartered One Ocean Expeditions Inc. has experienced the vagaries of journeying around the top and bottom of the world for nearly 25...
I started rowing three and a half years ago. I was 63. I had given up golf because of my back, and I wanted something that would build strength and keep me fit and that was symmetrical. I called the...
On Friday morning, former premier Christy Clark announced that she was stepping down as leader of the BC Liberal Party, effective August 4. That message was quickly followed by a statement from the BC Liberal caucus expressing disappointment that she...
A record 4,000 well-dressed guests attended the 9th Annual Deighton Cup at Hastings Racecourse opening up the Marquee and Concourse as one complete VIP experience produced by the Social Concierge and Parade Agency. Miles End Motors Field of Dreams had...
Over 100 young professionals attended the Pacific Club’s Annual Summer Party on July 21 at the False Creek Yacht Club overlooking Yaletown’s waterfront. The evening began with a complimentary welcome cocktail as guests mingled on the patio facing Granville Island.
5 tips from Eitan Sharir, president of culture and organizational performance at Dynamic Achievement Group, a corporate culture, leadership and performance consultancy in West Vancouver, and Danielle van Jaarsveld, associate professor and division chair of organizational behaviour and human resources at UBC’s Sauder School of Business
Marking the end of an era at BC Hydro, Jessica McDonald has been fired as president and CEO of the public utility. Her replacement: Chris O'Riley, promoted to president from deputy CEO. Board chair Brad Bennett, a onetime adviser to the...
As an undergrad business student at SFU in 2006, Sarah Lubik landed a co-op job in which she interviewed founders of new technology companies in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. on the challenges they faced as they tried to take their products to market. Since then she has tackled...
Premier John Horgan has named the members of his cabinet, which contains 20 ministers and two ministers of state. Another six MLAs are parliamentary secretaries. The government is a mix of new and experienced MLAs and also includes: • Four ministers...