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Monday, December 12, 2016 9:45 AM
The Province has extended the reduced fee in place for log exports in the Mid-Coast Timber Supply Area until June 2018 to support forestry jobs in the area.
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Friday, December 9, 2016 9:15 AM
Canadians will be better equipped for the well-paying middle-class jobs of today and tomorrow as a result of a $13.8-million investment in the College of New Caledonia for a new heavy-mechanical trades-training facility.
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Friday, December 9, 2016 8:30 AM
Two First Nations communities on Vancouver Island and one on the Central Coast stand to benefit from support from B.C.’s First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund, a program launched by the provincial government in 2010.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:00 AM
An easy-to-use website that helps British Columbians explore for land-based opportunities was launched by Minister of State for Rural Economic Development, Donna Barnett.
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Saturday, December 3, 2016 9:00 AM
The 2016 Forestry Asia Trade Mission has come to an end following three stops in Nanjing in Jiangsu Province.
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Friday, December 2, 2016 7:00 AM
Canadian and provincial government representatives and delegates from the Canadian forest sector met today with China’s State Forestry Administration and Chinese industry officials to advance discussion around sustainable forest management practices during the China-Canada Roundtable on Illegal Logging in Beijing.
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Thursday, December 1, 2016 12:30 PM
The B.C. government has committed more than $45,000 for a new partnership project with manufacturers in the province’s North Central region to help identify their labour needs.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016 7:00 AM
A mix of 250 importers, distributors, builders, developers, designers and architects were on hand as Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Minister Steve Thomson welcomed delegates to the second-annual Sino-Canada Wood Conference in Shanghai.
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Monday, November 28, 2016 7:30 AM
Forestry Asia Trade Mission delegates have a better understanding of trends, priorities and Japanese market opportunities for British Columbia wood products after touring a six-storey, 2x4 demonstration project and two-storey cross-laminated timber test house in Tsukuba, Japan, just outside Tokyo.
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Sunday, November 27, 2016 9:00 AM
Forestry Asia Trade Mission delegates viewed first-hand how British Columbia wood products are contributing to the socio-economic recovery of Japan’s Tohoku region that was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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