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V O L U M E 5 1 N U M B E R 1
"A football stadium's worth of reports from
the last two decades spells out in extensive,
repetitive detail how important small
businesses are to a city"
–p.19
The Informer
15 ENTREPRENEURSHIP
UBC's Creative
Destruction Lab lays the
base for 80 seed-stage
companies to grow on
16 GO FIGURE
B.C.'s plans for transit
gondolas are moving
along quickly
17 TECHNOLOGY
Burnaby's Trendi Tech
offers some food for
thought when it comes
to handling waste
19 LAND VALUES
Communities make
businesses go round—
just look at Gastown
23 YOUNG GUNS
How Christina Wong is
employing change in
the Downtown Eastside
25 FIVE QUESTIONS
WorkSafeBC's Anne
Naser talks hybrid work
and injuries on the job
27 SHIFT HAPPENS
Watch out, boomers:
age is a number that can
cost you employment
Quality Time
55 WEEKEND
WARRIOR
Three large animals
later, Function Point
exec Jenny Ly is on the
hunt for deer
57 ON TREND
No pain, no gain—even
with these B.C.-based
online fitness programs
59 CARRY ON
Check out the newest
trends that hotels and
travellers are getting
comfy with
61 INVENTORY
B.C. has good food, but
here's where to go to
feed your soul
62 BLOCK PARTY
Take a walk around this
Squamish block in our
newest column
Chatter
10 EDITOR'S DESK
Back to the future
B.C.'s Most Economically
Resilient Cities in 2023
Our ninth annual ranking of B.C.'s best cities for work places
50 local communities in the spotlight. Not surprisingly, smaller
municipalities came out on top once again
by Andrew Macaulay
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Recession
in Session?
Inflation, interest rates
and pandemic splurges
may have brought us
here, but there are many
factors to consider
before B.C. foots the bill
by Nathan Caddell and
Michael McCullough
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2023 BCBUSINESS.CA 7
