Float home owners and marina operators packed a public meeting in Delta Thursday evening voicing their anger over fee increases by Port Metro Vancouver. The Port is demanding rate increases for water lot leaseholders along the Fraser River, some as high as 80-percent. But that's not the only cost about to go up. Marine insurance is also set to … [Read more...]
Possible fan boycott of NHL owners’ other businesses
September 7, 2012 by
A handful of hockey fans are fed up with the labour dispute between the N-H-L and the Players' Association, as a possible lockout looms. And they have a new idea to catch the team owner's attention and change the tide. T. J. Tully is an Oilers fan who has set up a website called you-have-two-weeks-dot-com. He says, "the owners have all these others … [Read more...]
Returing to the PST will come at a cost to small business owners
May 14, 2012 by
Small business owners will take a hit reverting back to the PST according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business CFIB Provincial Affairs Director Shachi Kurl says while she welcomes the streamlining in the new improved PST there is a hit small business owners will take. She said "It is going to be very expensive for small … [Read more...]
Tribunal could bypass Court congestion for strata owners
May 8, 2012 by
The Executive Director of the Condominium Home Owners Association of BC is hopeful a planned tribunal to resolve strata and small civil claims outside the court system, will be successful. Tony Gioventu says his association has been part of the development and consultation process around the Civil Resolution Tribunal Act, "The tribunal process is … [Read more...]
Jail term ‘bittersweet’ for business owners
February 18, 2012 by
Charles Gauthier won’t be celebrating the fact Ryan Dickinson will spend the next 13 months in jail for taking part in the Stanley Cup riot last June. Instead, the executive director of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association says Dickinson’s sentence — the first handed down to an accused rioter — is part of the “healing process” … [Read more...]
Mushroom farm owners fined over deaths
November 25, 2011 by
SURREY, B.C. - Two companies and three owners of a Langley, B.C. mushroom farm where three men died after being overcome by toxic fumes have avoided jail time.Instead, the judge levied a total fine of $ 350,000.Investigators found that a pipe carrying a compost mixture broke at the plant in 2008, releasing toxic gas.A trio of fellow workers rushed … [Read more...]
