Category: Economic Development and Prosperity
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Laid Off and Looking For Work? Chamber Job Board Lists Employers Looking For Workers
Heart Pharmacy, Save on Foods, Island Health, Thrifty Foods, London Drugs – these are just some of the companies hiring right now. Today the Chamber of Commerce repurposed their Jobs Board to serve the community. The Jobs Board connects employers looking for workers with workers affected by businesses that have closed in response to the…
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Our Local Businesses Need Us: Let’s Show Them Our Love
NB We have received new information from the federal and provincial health authorities since this was posted originally on Saturday afternoon. Extraordinary social distancing measures should be put in place. The Prime Minister is encouraging people to stay home if possible to help flatten the curve. Instead of visiting your favourite restaurant right now, considering…
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Victoria 3.0 – Pivoting to a Higher Value Economy – 2020-2041
Expedition leader Adrian Round (left) and ocean operations staff member Jonathan Miller carefully monitor remotely operated vehicle operations on the seafloor more than 2 km below the vessel. Photo by Ed McNichol. Ocean Networks Canada Today the City of Victoria released Victoria 3.0, an economic action plan that accompanies the City’s Official Community Plan to…
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Cities Can’t Go It Alone, Need National Government Support on Climate Change: Climate Emergency Urban Opportunity Report
From left to right, Martha Delgado, Undersecretary of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights for Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maimunah Sharif, Executive Director UN Habitat, Shipra Narang Suri, Coordinator, Urban Planning and Design Branch at UN-Habitat. It’s not every day, as mayor of a small city – in the global scheme of things – to…
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Roundtable Series to Inform City’s Economic Action Plan: Victoria 3.0 – Pivoting to a Higher Value Economy
Starting this evening and running for the next two months, the City of Victoria is hosting a series of roundtable discussions with people who do business in the community to inform our next Economic Action Plan, Victoria 3.0 – Pivoting to a Higher Value Economy. I am happy to be facilitating all the round tables…
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Election 2019 Candidates Listening Session: Focus on the Future
“Choose forward.” “Not left. Not right. Forward together.” “In it for you.” “It’s time for you to get ahead.” Looking carefully at the slogans of the four main political parties in English Canada, it’s clear that this October’s election is about the future. Thankfully campaigns are about more than slogans. In my experience they’re…
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Open Letter to Victorians: Let’s Choose the Future Together
An Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) camera like this one (left) allows for real time monitoring of the seabed (right). ONC has cameras like this one deployed all over the west coast, sometimes in partnership with First Nations communities. See more of their incredible photos here. As I’ve been reading the headlines and letters to the…
