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Victoria Hospitality Industry

One-Man Brand

Shawn Soole has parlayed his standing as Victoria’s most influential bartender into a burgeoning empire of hospitality consultation. Already an award-winning mixologist in 2006 when...

Advice

communication strategies

Learn to Read the Room

Whether attending a networking/marketing event, leading a team meeting or simply engaging in casual conversation, the ability to read the room is indispensable —...
HR Trends

Five Key Trends
in HR

As we work with Vancouver Island small business owners and managers, most people agree that the employment landscape has changed in an epic way...
achieve personal goals

Douglas Reads – January 2025

Dreaming big is easy. We all do it. What’s hard is bringing those dreams from pie in the sky to down to earth. Big...

From Our Partners

Technology

The Supercar
Station

Vintage car restoration
Jay Leno knows his cars. So when the well-known television host, comedian and car collector asks Victoria-based Coachwerks Restoration to work on one of...

Lumera Productions – Providing Outstanding Event and Production Service

Victoria livestreaming and AV
Lumera Productions Inc. is based in Victoria and was founded by its president, Shane Archer in 2009 as a sole proprietor operating out of...

Canada’s Turbulent Skies

British Columbia travel issues
The demand for business travel is up some 11 per cent this year, and the Global Business Travel Association projects it’s just going to...

Ottawa Invests in Island Businesses

Victoria business federal funding
Four Victoria-area businesses are sharing some of the $3.5 million announced by the federal government in September to help Vancouver Island businesses.  Industrial Plankton, which...

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