The Informer
17 FOOD
B.C. entrepreneurs want
a bite of the plant-based
and lab-grown meat biz
18 GO FIGURE
Can we get your number?
Hot stats on the
business of romance
19 LAND VALUES
Will downsizing boom-
ers end up crashing the
real estate market?
23 YOUNG GUNS
Nisha Grewal's local
beauty brand is
Kardashian-approved
25 FIVE QUESTIONS
Michael Audain talks
travel, career changes
and his new memoir
27 SHIFT HAPPENS
How old cannabis
possession convictions
could affect your
employees' cross-
border travels
Quality Time
63 WEEKEND
WARRIOR
Longhouse Media
founder Keenan Beavis
kicks back with
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
65 ON TREND
B.C. businesses are
killing the TikTok
marketing game
67 CARRY ON
Travel-focused items
for jet setters and the
jet-curious
68 INVENTORY
Snowboards, tuques
and other mountain
essentials from local
companies
70 IT'S A GOOD
THING
How the Wolverton
Foundation keeps the
performing arts in the
spotlight
Chatter
12 EDITOR'S DESK
Goodbye and hello
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 BCBUSINESS 9 COVER: NIK WEST; TOP LEFT: DARREN HULL; BOTTOM LEFT: ISTOCK
Our Most
Resilient
Cities in 2022
Our eighth annual ranking covers
50 of the province's largest
communities, and again,
economic strength is the
name of the game
by Andrew Macaulay
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2022
Outlook
How will B.C. businesses
and the economy fare
this year? We asked
the experts and nailed
down (you guessed it) 22
themes by Nick Rockel
"I think the fact that Langford is more
affordable than Victoria is bringing more
younger people this way" –p.30
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