VIEA’s Island Wood Industries Initiative Seeks Certainty for Value-Added Manufacturing
Change is in the air! Attend the State of the Island Economic Summit and join the Island Wood panelists who will share current thinking and trends on the Island’s...
Marine Sector – Labour Challenges & Career Opportunities Abound
The marine sector is rich in training and career opportunities and companies are poaching each other’s staff because of skills shortages. While we all know that...
Island Good – Major Vancouver Island food retail competitors collaborate for VIEA pilot project success
Suppose someone asked you to “prepare a meal using only food products grown, produced or manufactured locally”. Could you do it? What foods would you include?...
LETTER: Island Good
After three years of careful planning, the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance (VIEA) launched ‘Island Good,’ an initiative to highlight food that is being produced and manufactured...
‘Canna-biz’ an important topic at the Economic Summit with recreational legalization on the immediate horizon.
Want to know where cannabis medical and recreational product development is headed? How will cannabis products be distributed? What will the retail environment look like? What...
Celeste Haldane, Chief Commissioner of the BC Treaty Commission to present at the 2018 State of the Island Economic Summit.
Celeste Haldane was appointed Chief Commissioner of the BC Treaty Commission in April 2017, after being an elected Commissioner since 2011. She is a practising lawyer and holds an...
Island Good results to be revealed at Summit in Nanaimo
How do you recognize all the locally made food in your grocery store? Do you like to support Vancouver Island farmers and producers? How do you...
Safe Communities
Essential for Everyone   Many Vancouver Island communities are seeing growing numbers of people on the streets facing mental health, substance abuse and addiction problems. This...