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Startup Canada is harnessing the collective energies and ideas of Canadian entrepreneurs by conducting a national tour that is making a stop in Prince George. Join us for this inspiring event to hear a panel of community leaders each share their unique entrepreneurial journey followed by a townhall meeting to generate discussion and ideas in support of local, regional and national entrepreneurship. Do not miss your opportunity to contribute to this national movement to celebrate and advance entrepreneurship in Canada. …

PRINCE GEORGE – Seven provinces down, three to go. The momentum is building as Startup Canada, a grassroots, entrepreneur-led initiative created to support and inspire business development, sweeps across the country on a national tour that includes 40 stops in 10 provinces over a seven-month period.

Newspaper baron David Black’s plan to build a $13-billion oil refinery between Kitimat and Terrace is yet more evidence that business in northwest B.C. is booming.

Although Smithers is about to lose both Zellers and Fields stores, opportunities abound for the town of 5,400 to expand its economy and the number of special retail boutiques that make it a shopping destination in northwest BC Located approximately four hours west of Prince George, the Bavarian-style community is awash in tourism and recreation opportunities from skiing and snowboarding to mountain biking, hiking and fishing. Its picturesque location at the base of Hudson Bay Mountain and glacier, coupled with …

Victoria, B.C.’s CFAX 1070am interviewed Northern Development Initiative Trust CEO Janine North July 31 about the wave of investment planned for northern B.C.

With more than $60 billion in capital investment headed for the province’s largest geographic region, find out why more and more British Columbians are looking north where the cost of living is lower and jobs are aplenty.

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Northern Development’s contractor-supplier boot camp will help businesses ready themselves and their workers to take on a major wave of capital investment across the north. Northern BC is expected to enjoy more than $60 billion in capital investment in the coming years, but small and medium-sized contractors and suppliers might not yet have the tools they need to cash in on the tidal wave of capital that will hit the region. Last month, Northern Development Initiative Trust delivered its first contractor-supplier …