News Items tag as: high tech

Salmon Arm designer of robotic mushroom pickers expects to create hundreds of jobs
March 24, 2021 - 6:30 AM

At a time when COVID-19 has made the concept of working from home so popular, Mike Boudreau, founder of TechBrew Robotics, would rather bring hundreds of new workers to Salmon Arm to work on his mushroom picking robots.
Kelowna's reputation for tech is attracting angel investors as well as entrepreneurs
November 20, 2019 - 6:00 AM

Kelowna is regularly touted as one of the best places to start a new business in Canada.
Kelowna is reaping rewards of dark fibre investment running under city streets
September 01, 2019 - 7:00 AM

KELOWNA - It took almost a decade of slowly burying fibre optic cables under Kelowna city streets before any light was turned on.
Brave entrepreneurs risk having their souls crushed next week in Kelowna
August 16, 2019 - 5:00 PM

KELOWNA - It can be tough to start a new business.
Looking to link up, not hook up? There's almost an app for that
August 01, 2019 - 11:00 AM

KELOWNA - While it only took Bark Chung and her team 54 hours to create the lunchlink.co website, getting the connect-over-lunch app up and running is taking considerably longer.
Kelowna start-up has social conscience built right in
December 04, 2015 - 1:00 PM

KELOWNA - Local non-profits are jumping on a new interactive web platform called Volinspire, the product of a new local start-up created as one of the province’s first community contribution companies.
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West Kelowna farm selling thousands of apples after fruit packers closure
Paynter’s farm is staying open later into the season to help move thousands of pounds of apples from local farmers after the BC Tree Fruits Cooperative shut down earlier this year. Jennay Oliver, Paynter’s farm owner and operato

Penticton 'potio' smoking lounge blazing a trail for cannabis tourism
A dispensary in Penticton made its patio into a pot smoking lounge, and its success could turn a new leaf for the cannabis industry in the Okanagan. Back in February the BC government permitted smoking pot anywhere you’re allowed to s

Survey finds huge majority of British Columbians say homeownership now a luxury
A survey from Habitat for Humanity Canada shows 87 per cent of British Columbians view homeownership as a luxury. The online survey conducted by Leger for the non-profit asked 1,500 Canadians a range of questions about the housing cri

Salmon Arm designer of robotic mushroom pickers expects to create hundreds of jobs