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Online Marketing for Rural Businesses

Being located in a rural and/or remote geographic location presents different challenges to the business owner. With a location further away from an urban area, where most of your competitors are located, it is important to present to your customers that you are the preferred business of choice for them. One of the best ways [...]

Business Open House

There will be a number of companies such as Galaxy Broadband www.galaxybroadband.ca and Timberspan Wood Products www.timberspan.ca at an open house on Thursday April 26 at 12985 Willow Cale Road in Prince George. This open house is being presented by Northern BC Business www.northernbcbusiness.com and Northern BC Mining www.northernbcmining.com. At this event businesses involved with [...]

Uranium mine lawsuit costs BC $30M

CBC.ca He had no backing to make that statement and it cost the people of British Columbia 30 million bucks to cover up his incompetence.” The 2008 amendments to the Mineral Tenure Act issued by Krueger created a ban on uranium exploration and mining in BC … Click for more

Mining generates $8.9-billion boost to B.C. economy

Vancouver Sun By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun October 26, 2011 Michael Cinnamond, leader of business consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers’ BC mining practice, talks about the reasons why the province’s mining sector is optimistic that it is poised for a growth phase … Click for more

Finding the perfect match

Vancouver Sun "Terrace, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Kitimat, the Cariboo and Central Interior are some of the fastest growing ones." To qualify for the BC PNP under the Regional Business Category, the applicant must invest at least $200000 to create or buy a … Click for more

US Coal to Prince Rupert, BC Export Arch Coal

Colorado or Utah Coal moving to Prince Rupert would also be an interesting routing…. Coal trains heading North up the old BC Rail would be quite Awesome! … Click for more

Consumers in Central Canada less optimistic than in BC

Vancouver Sun By Kim Covert, Postmedia News December 22, 2010 Consumer confidence is apparently one of the few areas of the economy unaffected by the economic recovery. … Click for more

New report outlines gov’t strategies to promote job growth

BCLocalNews The BC economy, including employment growth, is expected to increase on average by 1.8 per cent per year from now to 2019. It is estimated that this growth … Click for more

Canadian coal stocks fired up as demand outstrips supply

Source: Globe and Mail A decade ago, people were predicting that the northeastern British Columbia community would soon become a mining ghost town – a victim of a dying coal … Click for more

B.C. lumber exports to China jump

Source: Vancouver Sun Bell expects accelerating sales in the fourth quarter as a result of what the ministry bills as the "largest ever BC forestry trade mission," which will run … Click for more

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