The B.C. government is investing more than $600,000 in provincial tourism sector associations to support tourism marketing activities in the Kootenay Rockies, announced Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour.

Skilled-trades students in School District 35 will benefit from a three-year, $15-million investment by the B.C. government to support youth trades programs with the purchase of new trades-training equipment.

Skilled-trades students in the Mission School District will benefit from a three-year, $15-million investment by the B.C. government to support youth trades programs with the purchase of new trades-training equipment.

The spotlight will be on Comox Valley, thanks to a $250,000 investment to increase and promote tourism activities in the region.

The Province of British Columbia announced the B.C. Startup in Residence Pilot Program, that will enable companies to work within government to deliver innovative solutions to digital challenges.  

Following on the success of the We for She conference in Vancouver last year, Premier Christy Clark announced, on International Women’s Day, that the We for She conference will bring business leaders and young women from all across B.C. together again for an event in the fall of 2017.

Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism, and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour was joined by Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Peter Fassbender, Her Honour Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon, Speaker of the House Linda Reid, and representatives from the Association of Book Publishers of BC, to officially proclaim March 8 Book Day in the province.

Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour has issued the following statement on the observance of the 2017 Fallen Firefighters' Memorial:

The Province is investing $65,000 by supporting the annual BC Bike Race which will welcome 600 participants from 36 countries to coastal British Columbia for the annual seven-day mountain bike race tour.