News Items tag as: Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission

Almost 9,000 people have found jobs in Central Okanagan so far this year
October 30, 2023 - 7:30 AM

The number of people working in the Central Okanagan by the end of September was up 8.1%, or 8,992, compared to last year with 118,478 people working.
Central Okanagan had its largest population growth ever in 2022
July 07, 2023 - 3:30 PM

An estimated 6,467 new people arrived in the Central Okanagan in 2022, the largest single annual increase in the past decade.
Housing starts up more than 200% in Central Okanagan
May 13, 2023 - 6:00 PM

It doesn’t look like the Kelowna region is backing down from its title as the fastest growing major city in the country from 2016 to 2021.
Huge jump in help wanted ads in Central Okanagan
May 06, 2022 - 4:30 PM

There was a 44.4% increase in the number of jobs posted in the Central Okanagan in the first quarter of 2022.
Central Okanagan was B.C.’s fastest growing region last year
May 10, 2021 - 11:00 AM
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With a two per cent growth in population in 2020, the Central Okanagan was the province’s fastest growing regional district in B.C. and the fourth fastest growing in Canada.
Boomerang campaign seeks to lure former residents back to the Central Okanagan
April 05, 2016 - 11:30 AM

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - With a pressing need for talent, the Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission is trying to lure expatriates — defined as anyone who once lived, worked or went to school here — back to the valley with an on-going multi-faceted marketing campaign.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

News Items tag as: Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission

Almost 9,000 people have found jobs in Central Okanagan so far this year

Central Okanagan had its largest population growth ever in 2022

Housing starts up more than 200% in Central Okanagan

Huge jump in help wanted ads in Central Okanagan

Central Okanagan was B.C.’s fastest growing region last year

Boomerang campaign seeks to lure former residents back to the Central Okanagan

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