Vancouver Island Fish Farms Donate Thousands of Meals to Food Banks
Source: CTV News Vancouver Island Adam Chan | Associate Digital Producer VICTORIA — Several Vancouver Island-based fish farms are helping donate roughly 200,000 meals to food...
VIEA Puts Spotlight On All Things Local
Source: Business Examiner The ‘Island Good’ Initiative Brings Island Products And The Companies Who Make Them To The Forefront NANAIMO – Founded in 2006 as an...
10 to Watch Winner 2020: Cascadia Seaweed
Source: Douglas Magazine By Laura Brougham, March 27, 2020   As Islanders, seaweed is something we see on our beach walks and many of us consider...
VIEA Hosts COVID-19 Video Conference Events
VIEA is hosting a special series of brief video conference events designed to provide close-to-the-ground ‘how to’ information. Islanders can hear from thought leaders and network...
‘Megxit’ effect could turn Vancouver Island ‘into the next Martha’s Vineyard’
Source: NBC News Feb. 18, 2020, 6:51 AM PST By Alyssa Newcomb   The Kennedys put Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on the map. The Bush family made Kennebunkport,...
Sidney Company Tastes Sweet Success with Sugar Kelp
Source: Victoria News Feb. 16, 2020 3:30 p.m. By WOLF DEPNER A Sidney company wants to get in on the wet ground floor of the seaweed-as-food...
13th Annual Vancouver Island Economic Summit Breakfast Keynote
At the 13th Annual Vancouver Island Economic Summit Breakfast Peter Hall, Vice-President and Chief Economist, Export Development Canada (EDC), provided an engaging talk on the the...
Food Processing Hub Adds Value to Alberni Valley Agri-Food Industry
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 More than two dozen new jobs are anticipated in the Alberni Valley in the next few years, thanks to a new food...