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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The speech not (yet) given

The speech not (yet) given

Bob Brash shares the speech he planned to give at three different rallies at the legislature.
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In search of balance

In search of balance

Even with some increase in the amount of listings, it's still very, very, very much a seller's market.
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Will oil prices stall or continue to rise?

Will oil prices stall or continue to rise?

Despite two recent back to back drops, summer driving season usually drives the price of oil up.
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