https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story--978-.htm Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:19:37 PDT Updated every 10 minutes - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY Copyright: (C) Castanet.net https://www.castanet.net/rss/ https://www.castanet.net/main_images/logos/KelownaLogos/Castanet_Logo.jpg https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story--978-.htm https://www.castanet.net/news/Business-Examiner/59437/Virtual-prohibition https://www.castanet.net/news/Business-Examiner/59437/Virtual-prohibition Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:00:00 PDT Contributed By Devon Brooks New penalties are pushing drinking back into a socially unacceptable status Prohibition, was a strangely moralistic, yet sadly irrelevant time in which various elements from society did their best to ban alcohol because of its detrimental effects. In Canada prohibition was run by t... https://www.castanet.net/news/Business-Examiner/57936/Rebates-enervate-store-makeover https://www.castanet.net/news/Business-Examiner/57936/Rebates-enervate-store-makeover Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:00:00 PDT Contributed By Bobbi-Sue Menard After three years of a considered move to compete with Wal-Mart and create a more energy efficient operation, Liberty Foods in Fruitvale has completed the first part of an ongoing retrofit program. The results, say the owners, have been a bigger bang for the power consumption bu... https://www.castanet.net/news/Business-Examiner/57708/Fighting-our-local-Innovation-Gap https://www.castanet.net/news/Business-Examiner/57708/Fighting-our-local-Innovation-Gap Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:00:00 PDT Contributed By Devon Brooks The Conference Board of Canada reported earlier this year that once again, Canada got failing grades for its achievements in innovation. Overall we came in at 14 out of 17 in innovation, generating an overall grade of `D' as measured in 12 different indicators. It is not that we ar... https://www.castanet.net/news/Business-Examiner/56236/Winery-development-in-West-Kelowna https://www.castanet.net/news/Business-Examiner/56236/Winery-development-in-West-Kelowna Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:00:00 PDT Contributed As a group, they are highly educated, earn above the national household median income and are willing to spend money and time to pursue their passion. They are wine tourists and the wineries of West Kelowna have adopted different strategies to attract them to their doors. The most recent survey of ...