News Items tag as: Chartered Professional Accountants of BC

Thompson-Okanagan has lowest employment rate in B.C.
October 31, 2024 - 6:00 PM

The Thompson-Okanagan region has the lowest employment rate in the province, and unemployment is back up to where it was during the pandemic.
Unemployment rate falls in Okanagan, Kamloops but it’s not a good thing
November 15, 2023 - 3:30 PM

The unemployment rate fell last month in the Thompson-Okanagan but the drop is more of a reflection of the region’s shrinking workforce than a booming economy.
How you can save a few bucks as inflation, interest rates rise
June 15, 2022 - 7:00 PM
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After two years of record low interest rates, Canadians are being hit with rapid increase.
Help may be coming to ease Thompson-Okanagan housing crunch
March 11, 2022 - 7:00 AM
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As home and rent prices continue to rise in the Thompson-Okanagan region, help may be on the way thanks to a near-record number of new houses under construction last year, according to the Chartered Professional Accountants of B.C.
More than 21,000 jobs unfilled in Thompson-Okanagan
January 27, 2022 - 6:30 AM

While thousands of working-age people moved to the Thompson-Okanagan region in the last two years and the overall number of jobs has increased by 6,400 since December 2019, there are still great inequities in the job picture.
New home construction leading economic recovery in Thompson-Okanagan: report
February 19, 2021 - 2:30 PM

There was a 13.3 per cent drop in new home construction starts in the Thompson-Okanagan region last year, but that was better than the rest of the province.
Job growth good in some sectors of Thompson-Okanagan economy despite pandemic
December 20, 2020 - 6:00 AM

Even though COVID-19 cost thousands of people their jobs in the Thompson and Okanagan regions, some sectors actually saw job growth by November.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
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Avoiding American? Tips to source local produce in Kamloops, Okanagan
Some shoppers in Kamloops and the Okanagan are researching and sourcing Canadian products in the wake of U.S. president Donald Trump’s tariffs. “Now is a perfect time to focus on local food systems, and I think people want to kn

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Kelowna rental property manager gets licence cancelled
The managing broker of a Kelowna property management company whose clients complained they hadn't gotten their money has been suspended. According to a Feb. 10 BC Financial Services Authority decision, Tao Guo, who goes by Terry Guo, ha

News Items tag as: Chartered Professional Accountants of BC

Thompson-Okanagan has lowest employment rate in B.C.

Unemployment rate falls in Okanagan, Kamloops but it’s not a good thing

How you can save a few bucks as inflation, interest rates rise

Help may be coming to ease Thompson-Okanagan housing crunch

More than 21,000 jobs unfilled in Thompson-Okanagan

New home construction leading economic recovery in Thompson-Okanagan: report

Job growth good in some sectors of Thompson-Okanagan economy despite pandemic

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