NOV EMBER 2015
6 BCBusiness NOVEMBER 2015 (ABOVE) PAUL JOSEPH; (BELOW) COURTESY gLOWBAL
contents
Out of Oce
93 STYLE
Keep stylish and carry on!
A look at the best in cabin-
ready luggage
99 FOOD + DRINK
Glowbal's new agship;
Kitsilano's hot dining scene
101 ABOUT TOWN
A gala extraordinaire
launches Nordstrom
Vancouver
102 LUNCH WITH LUCY
Financier and go-to board
director Tracey McVicar
The Monthly Informer
17 REAL ESTATE
Why Vancouver is going through
city planners like they're Dixie cups
18 RETAIL
It's that not-so-wonderful time of
year: the cash-register cash grab
19 NUMEROLOGY
From one to 91 in 10 years: a look at
the madly pro…table Cross…t biz
21 THE MATRIX
B.C.'s newspaper oligarchs engage
in a high-stakes chess game
23 THE CONVERSATION
Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman
on surviving the oil-and-gas trough
27 D-I-Y MANAGEMENT
From Tangerine to BlackBerry:
when and when not to rebrand
29 THE AGENDA
Nourishment for the corporate
mind and soul
30 OFFICE SPACE
Digital agency Thinkingbox keeps it
real, and local, at its Gastown HQ
CHATTER
Editor's Desk The lead p.10 ... Feedback What you said p.13
sTanding alone
Former Vancouver city planner
Larry Beasley had real power
to effect change–something
his successors have lacked