Local Business

Initiative is said to be part of a ‘coordinated series of actions’

Matter will go to public hearing

Business recognition ceremony celebrates 25 years

The start of a new year and even more so a new decade, always leads to decisions to think, live, work and operate better, whether as an individual or business.

It’s the sixth time in seven months the province has lost jobs

Purchases were stronger in condos, apartments, duplexes and vacant land

There are dozens of green-tinged trinkets off the coast of B.C. that could draw more attention and perhaps make it onto the shopping list for anyone lucky enough to win tonight’s record $70-million jackpot lottery.

With consumer sales making up roughly 78 per cent of the national GDP, as retail goes, so goes the economy. Retail sales have been slowing across the country in recent months, and 2020 is expected to be more of the same.

The Better Business Bureau received about 4,100 complaints in 2019, with credit repair services topping the list. The BBB released its annual list of top complaints, as well as the top inquiries.

Last year the provincial economy downshifted to its slowest expansion since the 2009 recession. Fortunately, 2020 is looking a little brighter thanks to an upswing in non-residential construction.