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Okanagan Edge this week is out look back at all the week in business in the Okanagan Valley, and beyond.
Local business news
Jail guard strike delayed
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after a challenge from Commissionaires BC, the BC Labour Relations Board ruled CUPE’s strike notice dose not comply with legal requirements, and will have to be reissued.
Modular housing reconsidered
After pushback from some of its potential new neighbours, BC Housing is reconsidering its plan to put up temporary, supportive housing in a Kelowna business park.
Rent jumps 15% this year
Rent in Kelowna has spiked by 15 per cent over the past 12 months.
Kitsch gets pot permission
Trent Kitsch’s “cannabis lifestyle brand” has been granted a one-time permit to import a shipment of cannabis seeds into Canada.
DOJA Cannabis Company Ltd. recently received Health Canada approval for the import, and will have until the end of the year to bring in the product.
‘A very powerful group of women’
An events manager and marketer with decades of experience will head up the new Okanagan chapter of The eWomenNetwork.
Heather Sharpe, who recently arrived in the Okanagan from Vancouver, has been tapped as the managing director of the new women’s networking group.
Business profile of the week
From scurvy to dress shirts
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6AM WorkShirts’s Jermey West reflects on what an upstart entrepreneur can learn from a 15th-century Portuguese explorer.
B.C. Business news
Begrudgingly finishing Site C
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He didn’t appear very happy about it, but Premier John Horgan and the NDP decided move ahead with the Site C hydroelectric dam.
B.C. ferry review
The NDP government will launch a comprehensive review of B.C.’s ferry service in the new year, evaluating its performance in meeting the needs of ferry users and British Columbia’s coastal communities.
Issues
Housing crash on the horizon
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What’s the most likely way the Central Okanagan housing market’s climb will end, and how likely is a less dramatic outcome?
Fix the local startup community
The Okanagan startup community got a frank assessment of its strengths and weaknesses this week.
Got the Edge profile of the week
Nathania Roy
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