The potential for creating the life you want, free of the needless complications, stresses and anxieties of the conventional rat-race often associated with more urban environs – a life-work balance – is becoming increasingly available here in the Kootenays. One Rossland resident is embodying that balance to the utmost, having left his big city, big …
“Place-based” marketing has become an effort gaining traction throughout the province as rural BC communities look to employ strategies encouraging talent retention, looking to take from cities such as Vancouver and Calgary. Looking to more of a Vancouver Lite approach to marketing smaller BC cities. In reference to Prince George and Quesnel’s recent campaigns to …
If you’re looking for the perfect space for your new business idea, business relocation or expansion plans, Imagine Kootenay has your back! From Grand Forks to Revelstoke to Fernie, restaurant to retail, we have a great list of opportunities to help you find the space that that will be the perfect fit for your unique …
100 EPISODES! Let’s raise a glass and celebrate 100 Episodes of the You Can Do That Here! podcast. To celebrate we decided to try our first ever full episode with a live audience. We also flipped the seats and series producer and host Andrew Zwicker took the guest seat while Kelly Mclean took over the …
Great news for trades and trades students throughout the Kootenays! Well-paying and middle class jobs get a welcome boost with the investment by the federal and provincial governments, investing $8 million to help create a new $10 million trades training facility at Cranbrook’s College of the Rockies. The joint federal-provincial investment was announced earlier this …
And now for something completely new… To kick off the celebrations around the 100th episode of the You Can Do That Here! podcast we decided to go live, and to host the first ever You Can…Or Can’t Do That Here! Gameshow. In front of an electric crowd of 30 plus tech entrepreneurs, Andrew Zwicker hosted …
It’s a New Year and you’re considering a change. You’ve been flirting with the idea of owning your own business for quite some time and might be ready to take the leap. Maybe your hesitation is taking on the risk alone? You’re just not sure that shouldering the expense, time and responsibility on your own …
There is great news projected for 2017 as Technology and Innovation in BC continues to incubate, serving as a magnet for the movers, shakers, startups, investors and workers in the flourishing British Columbia technology industry. In the 2016 British Columbia Technology Report Card, KPMG reported that B.C.’s tech sector is growing faster than those in …
Colin Grant grew up in “The Country,” in the north of Scotland, an area very much like The Kootenays. From the age of four he can recall a strong bond between himself and nature. After an injury just prior to the 1988 Calgary Olympics derailed his ski racing career, Colin put his talents towards making …
As we look forward to another New Year, we tend to contemplate the year past as well as what might be in store for the new one to come. What opportunities will make themselves known and available to you? What changes will you be ready and willing to make? We strive to help you find …