AUGUST 2015
AUGUST 2015 BCBusiness 3 cover: vIcTorIA PArK; ToP: DArreN HULL; BeLoW: PAUL JoSePH
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v o l u m e 4 3 n u m b e r 8
Divide and Conquer
In recent years, the sharing economy has taken off
and changed the way we do many things, especially
travel. A look at how well (or poorly) B.c. is faring in
this collaborative new world by Frances Bula
Kelowna's
Second
Wind
From trendy restaurants to
cutting-edge research to
high-flying tech companies,
the okanagan's biggest city
has seen an injection of
new life in the past decade.
Forget the retirement villas
of your imagination–this is
not your father's Kelowna
by Jamie Maw
"The taxi industry has
acquired a political heft that
is not healthy. We need more
taxis, everybody knows it, but
it's in the interest of the taxi-
licence holders to suppress
supply" – p.22
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young blood
Colin Basran, the 37-year-old
mayor of resurgent Kelowna
