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Try These Investments

Mar 5, 2005 / 12:02 pm

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

Buying Home Survey

Mar 4, 2005 / 5:00 am

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

Seanix Buys A&B Sound

Mar 3, 2005 / 11:00 am

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

Firm Helps Makeover Show

Mar 2, 2005 / 7:00 pm

Press Release Waterplay Manufacturing Inc., a Kelowna manufacturer that designs and markets aquatic playground equipment, recently completed a project in...

Most Use Broadband

Most Use Broadband

Mar 2, 2005 / 7:00 am

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

Bank Rate Unchanged

Mar 1, 2005 / 7:06 am

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

Fly Kelowna To Victoria

Mar 1, 2005 / 5:00 am

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%

GDP Rises .4%

Feb 28, 2005 / 7:07 am

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

Feb 27, 2005 / 12:24 pm

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

Feb 26, 2005 / 12:41 pm

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 Expanding

Feb 25, 2005 / 5:00 am

Jetsgo Significantly Expands Western Canada Schedule Adds Regina to network, 12 daily Vancouver-Calgary flights Increased capacity throughout Western routes --...

Kelowna Airport Booming

Kelowna Airport Booming

Feb 24, 2005 / 10:00 am

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

Living In Kelowna Costly

Feb 24, 2005 / 5:00 am

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

Kelowna More Expensive

Feb 22, 2005 / 7:04 am

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

Feb 22, 2005 / 5:00 am

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

December Retail Down

Feb 21, 2005 / 7:40 am

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

Triple Profits For Telus

Feb 20, 2005 / 8:36 am

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

Record Insurance Profits

Feb 19, 2005 / 9:09 am

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

Surpassing The OCP

Feb 18, 2005 / 7:00 am

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

Okanagan Ethanol Plant

Feb 17, 2005 / 5:00 am

Release WORLDS FIRST FOSSIL FUEL FREE AND ENERGY INDEPENDENT ETHANOL MANUFACTURING FACILITY TO BE BUILT IN KELOWNA Wednesday’s announcement that Okanagan...

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