Business
Tickets on sale now for the Chamber’s 24th Annual Business Excellence Awards Oct. 26
The time to honour local businesses nears once more
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CREA reports home sales in September up 15.5% from year ago
Home sales through the Canadian Multiple Listing Service were up 0.6 per cent month over month
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Canadian company enlists bees to deliver crop protection, plans rapid expansion
Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. has created a way for bees to deliver a bacterial fungicide to crops
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Share crash data, private insurers tell David Eby, ICBC
B.C. monopoly makes drivers retrieve their own records
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Career fair a success for many
700 job hunters visited the Black Press Extreme Education and career fair in Prince George Oct. 11
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Jay-Z invests $5M in Kelowna-based company
Pela is a Kelowna-based company that makes the world’s first compostable phone case
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Unemployment rate down after country adds 54,000 jobs in September, StatCan says
Report says 70,000 of the new jobs were full-time, as the number of part-time workers declined
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Pace of Canadian housing starts slowed in September but less than expected
Seasonally adjusted annual rate fell 2.5 per cent month-over-month to 221,202 units in September
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Norwegian pension fund omits four Canadian firms as it exits oilsands investments
KLP to no longer invest in companies that get more than five per cent of revenue from oilsands
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Come see who’s hiring
Black Press Career Fair to be held in Prince George Oct 10.
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