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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.

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.

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.

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.

One struggles to find the words to describe the FTX debacle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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