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Try These Investments
Your best investing friends this year could be some widows and orphans.Widow and orphan stocks, that is. Once derided as a dull refuge for the safety-obsessed,...
Buying Home Survey
An RBC/Ipsos-Reid survey shows when it comes to buying intentions, 33 per cent of British Columbians plan to purchase a house or another home within the next...
Seanix Buys A&B Sound
Creditors of A&B Sound voted last month to approve a purchase of A&B Sound by Seanix Technology, a Richmond, BC-based manufacturer of computer products. In a...
Firm Helps Makeover Show
Press Release Waterplay Manufacturing Inc., a Kelowna manufacturer that designs and markets aquatic playground equipment, recently completed a project in...
Most Use Broadband
The Internet population that accessed the Internet via a broadband connection grew by an astounding 24%, according to The Face of the Web, the annual study of...
Bank Rate Unchanged
For the third month in a row, the Bank of Canada has left its trend setting key interest rate unchanged. At this morning's regular rate announcement, the bank...
Fly Kelowna To Victoria
Regional 1 has announced that it will begin serving Victoria directly from the Kelowna Airport effective March 21, 2005. Regional 1 will add once daily non stop...
GDP Rises .4%
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 0.4% in the fourth quarter, slowing from 0.7% in the third. Exports declined for a second consecutive quarter, while...
LRB Order To Wal-Mart
The Quebec Labour Relations Board has ordered Wal-Mart Canada to stop intimidating workers who want to form a union. The board's ruling cited efforts to "harass...
Cluster Strategy Pays Off
The Okanagan Partnership, a volunteer group of Okanagan business, education and community leaders, today issued a progress report on the results of its Cluster...
Jetsgo Expanding
Jetsgo Significantly Expands Western Canada Schedule Adds Regina to network, 12 daily Vancouver-Calgary flights Increased capacity throughout Western routes --...
Kelowna Airport Booming
Release AIRPORT FLIES HIGH ON LOW-COST FARES Passenger traffic at Kelowna International Airport increased a whopping 16.32% in January 2005 compared to January...
Living In Kelowna Costly
EDC Release The latest results from the ACCRA (American Chamber of Commerce Research Association), Cost of Living Index released this week by the Economic...
Kelowna More Expensive
The Economic Development Commission's Robert Fine says that it is costing more to live in Kelowna. The cost of living in Kelowna is now 10% above North American...
BC Retail Soaring
Retail sales growth in British Columbia more than doubled in 2004 with a record breaking $47.1 billion in total sales, according to a report released Monday by...
December Retail Down
Statistics Canada Release Retail sales took a hit in December as shoppers reduced their spending in stores by 1.4% to $29.2 billion, after essentially no change...
Triple Profits For Telus
Telus Corp., Canada's second-biggest phone company, said Friday fourth-quarter profit almost tripled, helped by record subscriber growth at its wireless unit....
Record Insurance Profits
The companies that sell auto, home and business insurance to Canadians have reported record profits of $4.2 billion in 2004 – a figure the Consumers...
Surpassing The OCP
2004 was a spectacular year for residential construction in Kelowna while the OCP anticpated 1165 units, 1946 were built, outpacing the five year average of...
Okanagan Ethanol Plant
Release WORLDS FIRST FOSSIL FUEL FREE AND ENERGY INDEPENDENT ETHANOL MANUFACTURING FACILITY TO BE BUILT IN KELOWNA Wednesday’s announcement that Okanagan...