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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SESSION
Jamie will be teaching one of the sessions at the Western Canada Economic Development Course in Richmond, BC in early June. His session is titled “Economic Analysis & Demonstrating ROI for Economic Development Efforts”. This is the first time such a course has been held...
Ucluelet Economic Development Strategy
Jamie will be hosting a workshop this week on the Economic Development Strategy in Ucluelet. Here is the ad running in the local newspaper:...
Kootenays lead BC in business growth
The Kootenay region has easily the highest rate of business growth in BC, based on 2010 figures from Statistics Canada’s Business Register. (An explanation and summary of the data is available in this pdf from BC Stats). The number of business locations in the Kootenay...
Comment on Obama’s State of the Nation
One of my former colleagues in the economic development profession and now City Councillor in Surrey, Linda Hepner (@LindaHepner), tweeted the following quote from Obama’s State of the Nation address: “We need to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.” On their face,...
Kelowna Economic Impact Workshop
Jamie will be in Kelowna on February 4 to deliver a 3-hour workshop on economic impact analysis, sponsored by the Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission. The workshop will help local organizations in arts and culture, sports, tourism and other fields learn techniques to evaluate their...
Summerland Economic Action Plan
An Economic Development Action Plan that we prepared with the District of Summerland has been released. Summerland has a well-established economic development function so this plan was constructed to provide some direction to future marketing efforts for the community (focused mainly on the attraction of...
New teaching gig at BCIT
I will be teaching a class in the School of Business at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) this fall. It won’t be in economics though – I’m teaching Spreadsheets for Managers, which involves a bit of lecturing on economics and business, and then...
Speaking at Ellensburg
I will be speaking at the Northwest Economic Development Course in Ellensburg, Washington in late August. Operated by the Washington State Department of Commerce and Business Oregon, this course is renowned throughout the US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia as an outstanding training session for...
CBC Literary Award
Elissa Vann Struth was awarded second place in the 2009 CBC Literary Awards for her short story, “Down to the Roots”. The Awards are Canada’s largest literary competition for unpublished work in French and English. Previous winners have included Carol Shields, Michael Ondaatje and Gail...
