After a year of pandemic, wildfires and flooding, Canada's beautiful, westernmost province needs some uplifting news. Here is a great story from the Business in Vancouver website. Community members from the Sto:lo and Sumas First Nations, and environmentalists from the Pacific Salmon Foundation, res…
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Salmon Rescue: A Good News Story to End a Tough Year in British Columbia
Looking for North American Tech Talent? Check out these Canadian Cities
Recognition of Canada’s innovative and competitive technology sector keeps pouring in. According to CBRE Group Inc., a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, Toronto is North America's third-ranked market for tech talent, coming in just behind the San Francisco Bay Area an…
Indigenous Cuisine is Coming to a Restaurant Near You
Have you ever had Indigenous cuisine from Canada? Check out this great article by Canadian Press journalist Alexsandra Sagan highlighting the growth in restaurants, eateries and food trucks featuring traditional and culturally-relevant food from Canada’s First Peoples (commonly referred to as “nat…
Winnipeg Named One of Canada’s Best Investment Locations for 2018
When you think of business investment in Canada, it is hard not to immediately think of Toronto, Canada’s largest city and financial centre or large metropolitan areas like Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary or Ottawa.
According to U.S.-based Site Selection Magazine's 2018 Canada's Best Locations li…
Okanagan B.C. Out of Reach? Live the Dream in Lillooet
Anyone who knows beautiful British Columbia knows about the Okanagan – an oasis of sun and fun in the southern part of Canada’s westernmost province. The region is halfway between the Pacific coast and the Alberta border, extending northward from the Canada/United States border for about 200 k…
Vancouver Wins National Award for Digital Strategy
The City of Vancouver is known for its laid-back lifestyle and commitment to sustainability. This month, the west coast city in British Columbia was also recognized for its digital strategy at the 2018 IT World Canada Digital Transformation Conference and Awards Ceremony in Toronto. Vancouver i…
Lillooet Champions Passenger Train Service from Vancouver to Prince George
World’s Most Liveable Cities: Canada Scores High Again
Canada ties Australia with three of the top ten most liveable cities in the world, according to the 2018 global ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The two countries accounted for 60 percent of the top ten, with Calgary, Alberta ranking fourth, Vancouver, British Columbia ranking sixth…
Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa Make Global Quality of Life Top 20
Air Canada Rouge Connects Toronto and Kamloops
Travellers now have a direct route between Canada’s largest city and Canada’s “Tournament Capital.” Air Canada is testing the route between Toronto, Ontario and Kamloops, British Columbia this summer to see if passenger traffic is sufficient to establish a permanent route.
The decis…
Amazon Builds Its Technology Workforce in Vancouver
Online retail giant Amazon continues its love affair with Canada’s west coast, announcing a planned expansion of its Vancouver, British Columbia technology hub. The expansion will bring an estimated 3,000 new e-commerce technology, cloud computing and machine learning jobs to the province.
Experience Canada Through Movies
Perhaps you have not been to Canada but you have likely seen its stunning, diverse landscapes and character-filled cities in some of the biggest movies and TV shows. Canada is a great place to film movies and television shows because the costs are lower, the film industry labor force is exceptional …
BC Claims Fastest Growing Metropolitan Areas in 2018: Conference Board of Canada
Vancouver and Abbotsford-Mission are forecast to be the fastest growing census metropolitan areas (CMAs) in Canada this year, and Victoria is also expected to rank in the top 10, according to The Conference Board of Canada’s Metropolitan Outlook: Winter 2018.
“The pace of growth in Vancouver an…
2018 Investment and Development Looks Strong in British Columbia
Check out Peter Mitham’s article, “Big spending, big impact for B.C. development sector” in today’s Business in Vancouver. The article summarizes much of the public and private sector non-residential development intentions for British Columbia expected in 2018.
Using Statistics Canada d…
Amazon’s Second Corporate Office in Vancouver Expected to add 1,000 jobs
Amazon is expanding its corporate presence in Vancouver, British Columbia, doubling its presence in the coastal city and capitalizing on Vancouver’s talented technology workforce and Canada’s commitment to attract the best and brightest people from around the world.
The expansion is expected…
Vancouver Airport Ranked as Best in the World
British Columbia's Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Canada’s second largest airport, has won the title of 2016’s Best Airport in the World by the CAPA Centre for Aviation (CAPAC) in a reccent ceremony held in Amsterdam.
“This is an incredible achievement and is a testament to YVR’s succ…
Canada Dominates List of Top Five Most Liveable Cities in the World
Last month, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) published its Global Liveability Ranking and Overview. While Melbourne and Vienna captured the top two spots, the Canadian cities of Vancouver (British Columbia), Toronto (Ontario) and Calgary (Alberta) rounded out the top five, illustrating the hig…
Top Four North American Cities are in Canada According to Quality of Life Survey
Mercer's quality of life rankings cover 230 destinations based on their Quality of Living Survey, which compares conditions in 440 cities in order to offer companies insight into how to fairly compensate employees when assigning them to international positions.
Vancouver, British Columbia(5) is N…
Vancouver to Host Globe 2016 Business Innovation for the Planet Conference
Following the success of COP21 climate talks in Paris, solutions-minded business people will mobilize around the transition to a low-carbon economy at GLOBE 2016, which brings together nearly two thousand business and government leaders from more than 50 countries to network, collaborate and adv…
Toronto Solidifies Reputation as a Global Financial Centre
The 18th edition of the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) indicates that Toronto is second to only New York City in financial centre competitiveness among North American cities. Toronto moved ahead of Chicago, Boston and San Francisco from the previous ranking and also moved into the global “to…
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