April 26, 2024

Columbia’s GPS Pal app for Android and iOS logs your hikes, geotags memories (video)

Move over, My Tracks -- you've got serious company. Google's own adventure tracking app just got majorly one-upped by a company that also happens to make heated jackets. Columbia's just-launched GPS Pal app is not only available on both Android and iOS, but it's actually designed to be used with a user account so that activity logs are neatly … [Read more...]

BC is exporting more and more logs to Asia and the NDP is crying foul

  Log exports hit a record 5.5 million cubic meters last year, twice the level of 2009. New Democrat MLA Bill Routley says local mills are going begging. He notes the Government recently rejected advice to sell logs to Surrey-based Teal Jones instead of shipping them overseas, "Why is this Minister overriding the decision of the Export … [Read more...]