In early October of 2016, in the dead of night, a masked man broke into the popular West Kelowna restaurant Thai Fusion and set it on fire. Atsawin (Luke) Sumpantarat, who owns Thai Fusion along with his wife Atchara (Ess), says the fire was devastating, costing the couple more than $100,000. The damage and lost […]

Memphis Blues BBQ House is known for the near-hypnotic smell wafting from its kitchens and food so messy each table gets its own roll of paper towel. Kelowna’s two Memphis Blues locations are just a few of the dozen scattered across the west, but not everyone realizes Kelowna’s iconic BBQ joint is actually a franchise. Andre […]

A British Columbia Securities Commission panel has found that Brendan James Schouw (who commonly goes by James) and Hornby Residences Ltd. perpetrated fraud on an investor. According to the panel, in 2009 Shaw took $1 million from an investor for a Hornby real estate project, promising 18 per cent interest to accrue annually. After depositing […]

A Kelowna woman is “going remote” for a year. Communications specialist Michelle Hargrave is one of 75 people selected from 25,000 applicants around the world to spend a year working, traveling and exploring 12 cities as part of the Remote Year program. She’ll leave Kelowna March 4 to join the group at its first stop, in Split, Croatia. “I was at […]

Every day, about four billion online messages filter through  Chris Priebe’s software. Priebe, the CEO of Kelowna tech startup Two Hat Security, says that, in the time it’s taken you to read these words, Community Sift has already identified and prevented “thousands” of cases of online bullying and harm. In a single day, Two Hat will […]

A group of students from UBC Okanagan’s faculty of management took top prize at the largest business competition in Western Canada earlier this month. Alan Blackwell, Tyler Hesketh and Kirstin Townsend snagged first place in JDC West’s marketing competition with their pitch for an e-concierge system for the tourism industry. “We were going to a […]

A pair of Vernon locals had a strong showing last week at Canada’s longest-running undergraduate business case competition. Okanagan College business students Jared Hubner and Anthony Peterson finished second in the Management of Information Systems category at the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition, held at Queen’s University in Kingston. Coming in just behind a strong team from […]

Patrick La Forge, the former president of the Edmonton Oilers and COO of the Oilers Entertainment Group, has taken an executive position with Kelowna-based company Getintheloop. La Forge spent years in the senior positions in sport, entertainment and beverage industries, and is known for his role helping produce the first ever NHL Heritage Classic outdoor […]

Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick is defending B.C.’s grocery store wine policy in the wake of a U.S. trade challenge. The American government, as predicted by wine industry groups in the province, is challenging the sale of B.C.-only wines in grocery stores as a breach of Canada’s commitments to the World Trade Organization. They claim it’s […]

Kevin O’Leary has announced he is running for the Conservative leadership, suggesting that as a businessman, he is better qualified than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to work with president-elect Donald Trump. O’Leary said he intended to run in a video posted to his Facebook page Wednesday morning, moments before making the official announcement on CTV. In […]