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2 days ago | 
biv.com | Rob Shaw |Glen Korstrom |Jami Makan |Cirque du Soleil
Michael Tchao, a 37-year-old creator of food education videos, says he likes a few things about his usual coworking spot in Vancouver. There’s the “really good” furniture and many power outlets. There’s more security than a coffee shop or public library, allowing him to leave his belongings unattended. There’s also sparkling water, cold-brew coffee and kombucha on tap in a large open kitchen. WeWork Inc.’s space at 2015 Main Street also offers networking opportunities.
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1 week ago | 
biv.com | Jami Makan |Mario Canseco |Rob Shaw |Graeme Wood
Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services developmentStore and/or access information on a deviceYou can choose how your personal data is used.
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1 week ago | 
biv.com | Mario Canseco |Jami Makan |Graeme Wood |Mike Howell
The Better Business Bureau is urging Canadians to be wary of employment scams. “Be cautious if you are offered a job that includes excellent pay and work-from-home opportunities,” stated the BBB Canada Risk report, released Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
biv.com | Jami Makan |Graeme Wood |Mario Canseco |Stefan Labbe
TORONTO — Strength in the technology, base metal and financial sectors helped Canada's main stock index gain more than 200 points in late-morning trading, while U.S. stocks also climbed higher. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 213.89 points at 24,080.42. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 125.52 points at 40,650.31. The S&P 500 index was up 28.99 points at 5,434.96, while the Nasdaq composite was up 86.48 points at 16,917.96.
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2 weeks ago | 
vancouverisawesome.com | Jami Makan
The CEO of the Squamish Nation’s economic development arm is touting the progress of the Sen̓áḵw real estate development surrounding Vancouver’s Burrard Street Bridge. Addressing an Indigenomics Institute conference Wednesday at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, not far from the bridge, Mindy Wight said it takes decades for First Nations to build their economic development groups and businesses, so the Sen̓áḵw project is on the cusp of making history.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Jami Makan
Kitimat, B.C., is benefiting from major industries like an aluminum smelter and a new LNG export facility, with further investments literally in the pipeline. The town of about 8,200 residents in the North Coast region of B.C. did not exist in 1950. In the early ‘50s, the Aluminum Company of Canada (later Alcan and now Rio Tinto Alcan) acquired the land for a new smelter, and a new community was born. “Industry is the only reason we exist,” said Mayor Phil Germuth, District of Kitimat.
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2 weeks ago | 
biv.com | Jami Makan
Industrial real estate, which has seen big gains and tight vacancy in recent years, could be brought to its knees by the unfolding trade war. Adam Jacobs, head of research with Colliers Canada, said industrial real estate has been “bulletproof” over the past decade, benefiting from trends like high immigration, e-commerce expansion and same-day delivery.
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2 weeks ago | 
westerninvestor.com | Jami Makan
Kitimat, B.C., is benefiting from major industries like an aluminum smelter and a new LNG export facility, with further investments literally in the pipeline. The town of about 8,200 residents in the North Coast region of B.C. did not exist in 1950. In the early ‘50s, the Aluminum Company of Canada (later Alcan and now Rio Tinto Alcan) acquired the land for a new smelter, and a new community was born. “Industry is the only reason we exist,” said Mayor Phil Germuth, District of Kitimat.
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2 weeks ago | 
biv.com | Jami Makan
A new online marketplace will allow Vancouver Island businesses to exchange used or excess construction materials with each other, in an effort to reduce waste and keep usable materials out of landfills. Building Material Exchange Marketplace, or BMEx Marketplace, is a free website intended to promote a “circular economy” in building and design materials, including items such as concrete, aggregates, asphalt, metal, wood, glass, carpet, doors, flooring, drywall, fixtures, shingles and venting.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Jami Makan
As a developer and builder of high-efficiency homes, Karin Eger-Blenk says she is always on the lookout for ways to reduce her company’s carbon footprint. That’s why the Wilden Group CEO recently decided to incorporate hemp insulation into one of the homes in the company’s 1,500-acre master-planned community in Kelowna. “I asked our construction team if we could have an alternative insulation material that would be carbon-negative, and this is how we actually discovered hemp insulation,” she said.
