Succession Planning Series: Advantages to Buying an Existing Business

You’re looking to take things in a new direction and you’re ready to take the plunge into owning your own business. You want to be your own boss! In our final instalment of our month-long Succession Planning Series, we’re going to look at why buying an existing business is a great idea. Of course, you […]

Hills and mountains: Startup Canada Day on the Hill and Startup Revelstoke

Originally posted by British Columbia Innovation Council May 5 was a big day for startups in Canada. Not only did thousands meet in Ottawa to discuss the industry, Startup Canada expanded to Revelstoke, BC. Here’s Jean Marc La Flamme’s take. Jean Marc is the community leader for Startup Revelstoke. Startup Canada heads for the hill […]

Succession Planning Series: Steps to Selling Your Business

In the last few weeks, we’ve explored a variety of ways to approach succession planning, from passing the business to a successor to transferring ownership through an employee or management buyout. Another option to keeping the vision behind your hard entrepreneurial efforts alive and seeing your company’s continued growth and success is the option of […]

TELUS Investing $8 Million to Connect Grand Forks With Advanced Fibre Optic Network

Media Release~ TELUS investing $8 million to connect Grand Forks homes and businesses directly to advanced fibre optic network Direct fibre connection will dramatically boost data capacity, providing local homes access to Internet speeds of up to 150 megabits per second and Optik TV, enhanced wireless coverage and speed, and even faster Internet speeds for […]

Succession Planning Series: Steps to Practical & Effective Succession Planning

In the last instalment of our Succession Planning Series we covered the steps involved in successfully transferring ownership of your beloved business to employees. This is one possibility when it comes to the succession of your business but how do you decide which path will be the best one to ensure the ongoing success of […]

New Billboard: Imagine Kootenay Increases Brand Profile!

Those of you living and traveling through the Columbia Valley may have already noticed the new addition to the promotional landscape, but for those of you who’ve yet to see it, Imagine Kootenay is in full colour and living large… to reflect the dreams of the many passers by! The Imagine Kootenay billboard has recently […]

Selkirk College’s Professional Cook Program a Recipe for Employment

Not many schools can promise a student will have a job at the end of their studies. This year, Selkirk College’s cooking program is offering its grads their choice of them. “Right now we have 16 students and more than 40 jobs to fill,” says Simon Parr, Instructional Assistant for Professional Cook (Level One) at […]

Imagine Kootenay on Instagram!

In an effort to better represent what it is to live #yourbetterlife in these, our wonderful #Kootenays, Imagine Kootenay is now on Instagram! We’re posting and reposting all of the fantastic snapshots of life and work in our precious part of the world and would like you to join us. There are thousands of terrific […]