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Sasquatch should be a little nervous. Like Google cars caught your neighbours watering the lawn (or worse) for Street View, the technology giant is heading into Canada’s most remote wilderness areas on the backs of some Nature Conservancy of Canada employees — literally. The NCC has just embarked on its …

Air Canada launched new international routes to Brisbane and Dublin, along with new transborder routes to San Jose, Chicago, and San Diego.  Air Canada has also placed its 787 on its daily Newark flight, to facilitate connections between the critical and high-yielding New York market and its international network to …

Feel like the cold weather is still a long way away? It’s not as far as you think. Don’t wait till your summer staff heads back to school – now is the best time to plan your fall/winter recruiting. This preparation also plays a key role in helping you prepare …

While the cooler summer temperatures may have hurt beach traffic, tourists are still flocking to the Okanagan and they are hitting up more wineries than ever before. BC Wine Institute marketing director Maggie Anderson says wineries up and down the Valley have seen an increase in traffic, despite the rain. …

As the ‘Buy Local’ movement continues to pick up steam, Buy Local BC has released its very first ‘Buy Local! Buy Fresh!’ Thompson-Shuswap map. The Thompson-Shuswap map will be similar to one you may be familiar with. This announcement comes at the same time as the fourth-annual 2016 ‘Buy Local! Buy …

In just 10 short days the Okanagan Rail Trail has received $450,422 worth of donations. At the end of June, an anonymous Okanagan resident wanted to up the ante and decided they would match donations up to $50,000 for the trail from July 1-10. With $33,000 being donated in the …

More love for Okanagan wine, this time courtesy of U.S. cable news giant CNN. In a feature, “Bottle stops: 15 wine trails worth getting sidetracked on,” the Okanagan wine region was listed among the top wine regions in the world. The write-up credits B.C.’s unusual climate for turning the Okanagan …

UPDATED: 12:53 p.m. The Okanagan Rail Trail Initiative has met its Canada Day goal of raising $100,000 for the development of a trail between Coldstream and Kelowna, and there’s still two more days before the July 10 cut-off. Duane Thomson of the Rail Trail campaign says while the official count has yet to …

Those looking to take a taste of the Okanagan abroad will now have the opportunity to take in-season fruit on flights leaving from Kelowna International airport. YLW’s program allows Kelowna residents to show off the agricultural pride of the Okanagan to those across Canada, and lets tourists visiting the bountiful valley …

Following another successful Annual General Meeting (July 05, 2016 at Manteo Resort, Kelowna), the BC Wine Institute (BCWI) is pleased to announce its new Board of Directors. Nine voting BCWI Directors represent British Columbia wineries of all sizes, including large wineries (selling more than 700,000 litres annually), medium wineries (selling …