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BCBusiness + Montridge Advisory Group Ltd. As demand for qualified talent increases, an increasing number of businesses become trapped in a recruiting rivalry to attract the best and brightest professionals. In order to stand out and make your company more attractive to...
Will Cadell isn’t the kind of person who was born thinking he would start a business of his own. But when Cadell was 32, he gave up paid employment doing mapping for the forest industry to become a freelancer providing...
Port Coquitlam native Kah-Mei Smith is one of this year’s recipients of a Mompreneur award, a prize given to Canadian mothers in business. Smith works an independent distributor of Young Living, which produces essential oils. Through her site The Daily Oilers, Smith and her team of 15 sell Young Living products...
She thought I was joking. “No, seriously, I’m not joking.” "Yes, you are—you’re pulling my leg." “No, I’m not. That’s really what I hear.” My wife and I had been watching the national news. A story came on about the latest Internet sensation to...
SMALL IS BIG: Making the Next Great Small to Mid-Size DowntownsContrary to popular belief, Canada is mostly a suburban nation, says Michael von Hausen, president of MVH Urban Planning & Design Inc. in South Surrey. Of the country’s estimated 8,500...
BCBusiness + Cindy David Financial Group Ltd. The release of the 2018 budget in February saw the federal government introduce amended rules on how passive investment income for Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs) would be taxed. And while they are an improvement over...
It took some doing—and some arguing—but the BC Chamber of Commerce passed 54 resolutions at its annual general meeting in Kamloops last weekend. The AGM, hosted by the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce, drew more than 200 delegates from around the province.
“He who covers over an offence promotes love, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.” “A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offence.” I was thinking about these words of wisdom this week. Basically, they’re talking about grace. So, what does it mean to be...
BCBusiness + Pacific M&A and Business Brokers Ltd. For Pino Bacinello, president of Pacific M&A and Business Brokers Ltd., knowing where to start when deciding to sell one’s business requires asking self-directed questions — and ideally, asking those questions years before the...
A healthy workplace begins with a healthy executive team, observes Gravel. “If the executive team is not happy, if they are worried or upset, this will have a trickle-down effect that will quickly impact the entire workplace,” he warns. “Company...