West Kootenay chosen for rural immigration project
The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot will allow employers to hire foreign workers for jobs that have gone unfilled locally.
The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot will allow employers to hire foreign workers for jobs that have gone unfilled locally.
Here are five co-working spaces to rent a desk at in the Kootenays this spring.
Read more5 Kootenay co-working spaces to rent a desk at this spring
In 1985, professor Donna Haraway wrote an essay called the “Cyborg Manifesto.” It became one of the preeminent works of the post-modern era and struck an incisive chord with artists, philosophers, academics and scientists alike. She argued that all humans interacting with technology were becoming—colloquially speaking—cyborgs. And by augmenting ourselves as such, we transcended traditional …
Peter LeCouffe, 29, moved to the Kootenays and started Harrier Aerial Surveys, which uses drones for high-precision land surveys.
Read moreEx-infantryman settles in Kaslo with soaring drone business
Whether you’re a remote worker on contract 5,000 kilometres from the office, or an ambitious new enterprise employing dozens of people to manufacture advanced materials, there’s never been a better time to go your own way. And there’s no better place to do it than the Kootenays – which have always been about unbridled self-realization. …
TELUS is investing $20 million to connect more than 90 per cent of homes and businesses in Nelson directly to its fibre optic network and enhance wireless connectivity throughout the region.
Melissa Welsh is the founder of Pixel Cents, a pricing software for digital artists and photographers.
Read moreNelson photographer offers tech solution for creatives doing business in pixels
This new facility is scheduled to open in late 2019, creating 50 technology-centered jobs.
Read moreNew $35m mass timber facility to be built in the Kootenays
Castlegar, Kimberley, Nelson, Rossland and Trail are part of the BC PNP Entrepreneur Immigration Regional Pilot.
Here in the Kootenays, we have an impressive crop of innovators passionately finding solutions to problems big and small.