Month: April 2016

Air Miles Detour & Meghan Trainor: Nelson!

The Air Miles Detour contest is on and 5 Canadian cities are vying for the chance to win a free concert from a for-real pop star! The Koots’ own, City of Nelson, made the cut! The hub of the West Kootenay is battling against Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Mulmur, Ontario and Port Hawksbury, Nova …

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Kootenay Workforce Development to Boost the Kootenay Economy

Ours is a region that is large and very diverse. The East and West Kootenays, still very much dependent on healthy resource industries, from coal to forestry to hydro to ensure it’s economic viability and growth, encompass a significant portion of the eastern half of British Columbia. Throw expanding technology and tourism sectors into the …

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FortisBC Receives Approval to Build New Kootenay Facility

Originally posted at Kootenay Business ~ FortisBC has received regulatory approval from the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) to build a new Kootenay Operations Centre. FortisBC has received regulatory approval from the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) to build a new Kootenay Operations Centre in Castlegar. B.C. and will begin construction as early as May. Once complete, …

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Remote Working: A Steadily Emerging Kootenay Workforce

Rural communities across British Columbia have been the happy beneficiaries of increasingly fast Internet service thanks to the networks of fibre optic cable that have been installed over the course of the past decade or so. With such a foundation allowing for increasingly tech oriented industry, what were previously considered remote, regional, resource based economies …

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