Business News
BC Economy Improving
Here is the key findings in the latest BC Infoline stats from the provincial Ministry of Management Services. Economy • British Columbia’s economy expanded...
Helping Restore Greenery
An Interior Savings Credit Union donation of $24,000 to the Crawford Estates Neighbourhood Association has helped the group replant a popular public area...
Animation Means Huge Profits
Pixar Animation Studios reported higher third quarter earnings Thursday on home video sales of its five animated films, most notably last year's hit Finding...
Medical Company In China
Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien marked Canada's growing economic ties with China on Thursday with the opening of a Canadian-owned medical-diagnostics...
New WestJet Fuel Surcharge
WestJet will soon announce a fuel surcharge of $5 to $15 a ticket CEO Clive Beddoe said Wednesday. Beddoe said the announcement would come this week or next. He...
Collins Crows BC Economy
Government of BC Press Release New figures from Statistics Canada show B.C.'s economy grew by 2.5 per cent in 2003, higher than expected in the February budget...
Canadian House Prices Rise
Statistics Canada Press Release Prices in Canada's new housing market continued to rise in September in response to healthy demand from home buyers. According...
Housing Starts Strong
CMHC Press Release The Kelowna area new home market recorded another strong performance in October, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation....
Sun-Rype Finances
Eric Sorensen, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sun-Rype Products Ltd., is pleased to announce the financial results for the third quarter of 2004....
Jobs Up, Unemployment Down
Twelve thousand jobs were created in BC during the month of October. That brought the Unemployment rate down to 6.9% from 7.1% a month earlier. In the...
Kelowna Housing Market Predictions
News Release Kelowna area housing markets will record another strong performance in 2005, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Housing...
Tommie Silver Winners
CHBA Press Release Our panel of judges, with their vast experience in the residential construction industry, has declared the Silver Winners, the finalists, in...
Loonie Continues To Soar
The Canadian dollar crossed the 83 cent (U.S.) mark Thursday, as its U.S. counterpart continued to stumble on concerns about that country's growing current...
Conrad Black Resigns
Conrad Black stepped aside Tuesday as chairman and chief executive of Hollinger Inc., the Toronto-based holding company which has voting control over newspaper...
CIBC Opens New Branch
CIBC celebrated the opening of it's newest branch in Kelowna Saturday on the north west corner of Orchard Park Shopping Centre. "Customers want a world-class...
Black Out Of Hollinger
Conrad Black intends to resign as chief executive officer and chairman of his Toronto holding company, Hollinger Inc., "within a matter of days," his lawyer...
Local Company Making Waves
News Release Enquiro Rank’s #206 on Deloitte’s North American Technology Fast 500 Kelowna based Search Marketing firm Enquiro Search Solutions Inc. placed...
Tolko Takes Over Riverside
News Release Tolko Industries Ltd. (Tolko) has responded to the announcement that the Board of Directors of Riverside Forest Products Limited (Riverside) is...
Price Index On The Rise
From August to September, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 0.1%. The increase in women's clothing prices, tuition fees, as well as in prices for fuel oil...
Loonie Soars To 82 Cents
A selloff in the American dollar sparked in part by higher oil prices sent the loonie up sharply Monday to its highest close since the summer of 1992. The...