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Kirk LaPointe: Long-awaited Indo-Pacific Strategy falls short

Kirk LaPointe: Long-awaited Indo-Pacific Strategy falls short

The streets are filled with protests on its zero-COVID dictate. The Chinese government is showing signs of worry. The Mounties are investigating China’s infiltration in Canadian affairs. The Chinese government is shrugging it off.
BIV Editorial: High water mark for ocean carrier profits

BIV Editorial: High water mark for ocean carrier profits

When it comes to rolling up COVID economy profits, it is hard to beat the bonanza reaped by container shipping lines over the past 18 months.
Jacquie Griffiths: As a recession looms, how can Metro Vancouver best protect its economy?

Jacquie Griffiths: As a recession looms, how can Metro Vancouver best protect its economy?

Canadians are becoming increasingly concerned about a looming recession. In the wake of the financial crisis in 2009, it was clear that the Metro Vancouver region fared far better than other jurisdictions.
Kirk LaPointe: YVR’s CEO piloting the recovery of the place where humanity meets

Kirk LaPointe: YVR’s CEO piloting the recovery of the place where humanity meets

If you look it up today, you will find that Tamara Vrooman became CEO at YVR on Canada Day in 2020. But it wasn’t the YVR we knew. And she couldn’t be the CEO we knew, even the CEO that she knew.
Christine Duhaime: The wild FTX Ponzi scheme touched Vancouver

Christine Duhaime: The wild FTX Ponzi scheme touched Vancouver

One struggles to find the words to describe the FTX debacle.
BIV Editorial: Major ports in a decarbonization storm

BIV Editorial: Major ports in a decarbonization storm

Decoding the decarbonization puzzle requires leadership from all sectors. In marine transportation, that means far more than ship owners. Vancouver and other international ports have a vital leadership role to play in that decoding.
Alistair Vigier: Floods will have a larger impact on B.C. real estate prices than interest rates

Alistair Vigier: Floods will have a larger impact on B.C. real estate prices than interest rates

Many people ignore the looming threat of climate change, despite the ever-present haze of summer wildfire smoke, and now – just weeks later – flood warnings.
Kirk LaPointe: Cannabis sector being taxed, restricted, regulated into insolvency

Kirk LaPointe: Cannabis sector being taxed, restricted, regulated into insolvency

There was a time not so long ago that it was hard to muster any sympathy for cannabis retailers. I would argue – and probably with some of you, I would have to do so quite strenuously – that the time has come.
J. Geoffrey Howard: Managing your company in an era of higher staff turnover and quiet quitting

J. Geoffrey Howard: Managing your company in an era of higher staff turnover and quiet quitting

As if managing employees through a major pandemic was not challenging enough, in the post-COVID era employers now face the twin challenges of “quiet quitting” and higher rates of actual quitting i.e. accelerated turnover.
Are meals in the metaverse a new frontier for restaurants?

Are meals in the metaverse a new frontier for restaurants?

The potential crossover between the real food world and a virtual one in the metaverse can help companies look at the market differently.