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Resources still the place to be in BC for good wages
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by Peter Severinson
· May 14, 2014 1:38 PM
Sector still leads the province in delivering high wages to workers, according to recent data from BC Stats
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BC construction market "exciting to be in"
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· May 06, 2014 4:08 PM
This week we talk with Blair Wilson, project manager for G Wilson Construction, a Vancouver company founded by his father Gordon that takes an old-school approach to carpentry and home building
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How one local company is globalizing BC innovation
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· April 28, 2014 9:54 AM
In a series of conversations with workers and business operators, The Province explores the contributions that trade, industry and natural resources make to the economy. This week we talk with Tim Epp, a plant manager at Britco, about competing globally in the modular construction industry
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Top BC welder talks about handling massive business growth
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· April 22, 2014 10:11 AM
In a series of conversations with workers and business operators, The Province and Resource Works explore the contributions that trade, industry and natural resources make to the British Columbia economy
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Mythbuster economist takes to the airwaves
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· April 12, 2014 2:14 PM
Resource Works senior research fellow Philip Cross discusses the groundbreaking research related in his 7 Myths of the BC Resource Economy report on the Bill Good radio show
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High impact: the economic importance of BC's natural resources
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by Philip Cross
· April 05, 2014 4:34 PM
A 10 percent boost in BC’s natural-resource economy would mean an extra $2.137 billion in the province's’s GDP, an extra $4.5 billion across Canada, and more than 39,000 new jobs for British Columbians.
And 55 percent of those jobs would be in the Lower Mainland.
All this and much more from Philip Cross, former chief economic analyst for Statistics Canada.
He says that a 10 percent boost in our natural resource output is indeed realistic.
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