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Ferry Tales
Each story we published on
BC Ferries floated a comment.
In response to Jacob Perry's
piece "BC Ferries shakeup
shows (early) signs of success"
(BCBusiness.ca/manufactur-
ing-transport), Sean Smith
said the improved bottom line
is nothing to be proud of. "It's
a profit at the expense of the
service they are supposed to
be offering.... A ferry without
passengers is just a boat."
While Alix Drabek's story "A
closer look at the scathing
report on BC Ferries' route
cuts" (BCBusiness.ca/tourism-
culture) elicited a scath-
ing response from Steven
Holmes: "BC Ferries is done!
If I was that Mike Corrigan
guy, I'd move to the U.S.A."
Working It
No shortage of feedback
this issue: January's Best
Cities for Work in B.C.
package, the first of its
kind, was so popular that
traffic to our website broke
the previous page view
record by a factor of five
its first day online.
Governments, mayors,
boards of trade, news outlets
and universities alike shared
the news through press
releases and social media.
The B.C. government (@
BCGovNews) congratulated
first-place winner Fort St.
John over Twitter—"Congrats
to #FortStJohn for being
named the best city for work
in #BC by @bcbusiness"—
while Simon Fraser Univer-
sity (@SFU) pointed out that
"SFU has campuses in 3 of
the top 10!"
But perhaps
no one received
the news better
than Fort St.
John Mayor Lori
Ackerman. Upon
hearing that her
city had been
crowned the best
city in B.C. for
work, she thanked her con-
gratulators and tweeted, "A
visit is now required. You're
all invited!"
Not everyone loved our
list, however. Neil O'Farrell,
business development officer
at Initiatives Prince George,
questioned our unemploy-
ment figures in an opinion
piece in the Vancouver Sun,
arguing that the Labour
Force Survey is
more current and
accurate than our
data, which was pro-
vided by Environics
Analytics.
Others pointed
out that many Metro
Vancouverites
commute from one
city to another for
work, making our economic
indicators in those areas less
reliable. "A little flawed for
data for cities in the Lower
Mainland," commented
TriCityBC, an online guide
for the tri-cities. "Would love
to see an affordability index."
