Ashcroft and Taylor are the latest municipalities to sign onto BizPaL, an online service that makes it easier for owners of small businesses to start and run a business.

Young people considering what skills they will need for tomorrow's in-demand occupations will have an opportunity for interactive, hands-on experience at WorkBC's Find Your Fit tour stop at the Victoria Conference Centre, April 9 and 10, 2015.

B.C.'s labour market and economic development priorities will be front and centre in a redesigned Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) that will help to attract the skilled workers and investment-ready entrepreneurs needed to grow our economy.

Every time you have a shower or take a drink of fresh water from your kitchen tap, you have a plumber to thank. These skilled trades women and men are the ones who install, repair and maintain the pipes, fixtures and other plumbing equipment that we depend on every day. That's why today people across the world are celebrating plumbers everywhere by recognizing March 11 as World Plumbing Day.

If we want a strong and vibrant economic future, then it's key that strong and vibrant women help drive it. And a great opportunity for women to help drive the economy is through careers in the skilled trades.

British Columbia posted a 5.3% increase in international overnight visitors for 2014, surpassing the 3.2% increase in arrivals to Canada as a whole.

British Columbia is expanding the Digital Animation or Visual Effects tax credit to post-production activities, and extending the Interactive Digital Media tax credit to 2018.

Feb. 16-20 has been proclaimed Chamber of Commerce Week in B.C. to recognize the province's more than 125 chambers of commerce for the work they do to keep B.C. strong and growing.

The B.C. government has introduced legislation to improve workplace health and safety as part of its commitment to implement key recommendations made by Gordon Macatee in his WorkSafeBC Review and Action Plan report released in July 2014.