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5 BC BU S I N E S S .C A F E B R U A R Y 2 0 24 L e f t : i S t o c k / K e v i n M ill e r ; C e n t r e t o p : To u r i s m V i c t o r i a ; C e n t r e b o t t o m : P o o y a N a b e i CONTENTS "I think, in my life, I've never really been married to one place. There are so many interesting places around the world– Vancouver being one of them, for sure." p.46 24 B.C.'s Most Economically Resilient Cities in 2024 It's our 10th year of analyzing the best cities for work in B.C. This time, as we once again use the "most resilient" label in the shadow of COVID-19, it appears that it's Vancouver Island's world. We're just living in it. (Well, some of us are.) BY ANDREW MACAULAY 46 A Sense of Place When a B.C. company decides to hire an outsider as its CEO, it opens up some questions. Do they move here? Do they stay? How has their experience outside the province and country prepared them for the role? And, of course, are they successful? BY STEVE BURGESS C H A T T E R 8 EDITOR'S DESK Resilience's new meaning T H E I N B O X 11 TOURISM The Tribal Parks Allies program is designed to merge Tofino's business and tourism success with the land's history 12 GO FIGURE In celebration of Family Day, we look at households big and small and reveal the most popular baby names in Canada 13 BUSINESS CLIMATE Our new column on how climate change is affecting various industries wades into the world of wine 16 LAND VALUES Resilience means a lot of things in real estate, including developing buildings for uses that don't even exist yet 18 THE CONVERSATION BC Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau has some bold new policy ideas centred around the business community 21 SMALL TOWN SUCCESS Revelstoke-based Ovry started small but its reproductive-care essentials can now be found on the shelves of London Drugs and Shoppers Drug Mart Q U A L I T Y T I M E 55 WEEKEND WARRIOR Adera Development vice-president Adam Weir wants to become the oldest person to complete an Ironman competition 56 SOCIAL CUES Agassiz's Fraser River Lodge shows off its natural advantages 57 PACK LUNCH Vancouverite Pailin Chongchitnant puts together some garlic pepper chicken for a day at the office 58 INVENTORY Sifting through some of B.C.'s most beloved coffee roasters 60 CARRY ON YVR has been bringing home accolades for years, but it has found a rival in Singapore's Changi Airport, which is fresh off a sparkling new renovation 62 WORST DAY ON THE JOB Brian Scudamore, founder of Vancouver- based O2E Brands, recalls the day almost 30 years ago that he decided to fire every member of his staff V O L U M E 5 2 N U M B E R 2 24 46 F E A T U R E S