The B.C. government is supporting social innovation by investing $194,450 to research the social venture sector and its human resource challenges through a labour market partnership agreement with the ISIS Research Centre at the Sauder School of Business.

As the Province helps the Portland Hotel Society to restructure, I feel it is important to remind British Columbians that close to 50 other agencies deliver a wide range of programs and services to some of society's poorest, most troubled individuals on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES).

Environment Minister Mary Polak congratulated Mexico and France at GLOBE 2014 for putting a price on carbon, just as British Columbia has already done with its revenue-neutral carbon tax.

The Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia and Port Metro Vancouver announced that they are taking immediate action to address the Port Metro Vancouver work disruption.

Minister of State for Small Business Naomi Yamamoto and BC Chamber of Commerce president and CEO John Winter celebrated the BC Small Business Accord's one-year anniversary at local business and accord participant, Oh My Gift, in Kitsilano.

The BC Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) has been named one of BC's Top Employers in a national competition organized by Mediacorp Canada Inc. and published in the Vancouver Sun on Feb. 6, 2014.