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CONTENTS
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Women of the Year
With 21 winners and the most applications yet, our sixth annual awards honour the
women innovating, championing, leading— and more —in B.C. business
BY DANI WRIGHT, NATHAN CADDELL, ALYSSA HIROSE, RILEY WEBSTER AND
SANDRINE JACQUOT
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Local Getaways
Chronicles from a secluded yoga
retreat on Bowen Island to help you
find your zen, the wild luxury of the
Senora Resort, hiking the Ancient
Forest in Prince George and more
BY ALYSSA HIROSE AND STACEY
MCLACHLAN
C H A T T E R
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EDITOR'S DESK
Meet the new face
behind the magazine
T H E I N B O X
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RETAIL
Prestige has long been
in the global guitar
game. Since moving
manufacturing back to
North Vancouver post-
COVID, the company is
celebrating its 100th
in-house creation
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GO FIGURE
Get on board with
the data behind this
province's iconic mode
of sea transportation
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CLIMATE
From flooding to fires,
the changing climate is
putting a new premium
on insurance
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THE CONVERSATION
Vancity Credit Union CEO
Wellington Holbrook
shares how he's carving
a new path forward for
the institution
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LAND VALUES
Non-developers are
throwing in their hats
to add more housing to
B.C. in unconventional
ways
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SMALL TOWN
SUCCESS
Dose Coffee is the next
drip on the Revelstoke
block with an Australian
twist
Q U A L I T Y T I M E
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WEEKEND WARRIOR
SnoreMD's CEO Carey
Dillen could lift weights
in her sleep as a
bodybuilder in her 50s
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SOCIAL CUES
Kelowna secondhand
shop Lost Together
has found its way on
Instagram
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WORKING
ARGUMENTS
Do you live the Google
or Microsoft life?
We settle the office
productivity suite debate
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INVENTORY
Rep Canadian-made by
the seaside with beach
accessories from these
six companies
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CARRY ON
Ride the rails around the
world and find a healthy
flight snack in this
edition's travel column
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WORST DAY
ON THE JOB
When Michelle Sklar at
Innovation UBC had to
make the tough call to
close up her brick-and-
mortar winemaking shop
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F E A T U R E S
