DELTA, BC (August 19, 2011) The economic impact of Boundary Bay Airport, which already contributes over $90 million in Gross Domestic Product impact to the Corporation of Delta and surrounding communities, is about to start growing as a 20-year master development plan gets underway.
“The positive impact of this growth, on businesses not only located at [...]
DELTA, BC (April 26, 2011) After hearing about the success of Initiatives Prince George in parlaying $1 million into hundreds of millions of dollars, at its business networking luncheon on April 20, the Delta Chamber of Commerce now has a feasible model to study as it, the business community and the Corporation of Delta take [...]
DELTA, BC (April 14, 2011) The Delta Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors announces the resignation of its Chair, Tudor Williams, of TWI Surveys Inc., for personal reasons and the appointment of Vice Chair, Ian Tait, of Tait Consulting Ltd., to fill that position. In succession, Second Vice Chair, Kelly Guichon, former Chair of the [...]
DELTA, BC (April 6, 2011) Initiatives Prince George Development Corporation (IPG) aims to be the creative energizing force that makes Prince George, BC an integrated and sustainable manufacturing, transportation, supply and service centre, and the inland gateway to Asia and North America.
At the Delta Chamber of Commerce networking luncheon on Wednesday, April 20, IPG President [...]
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DELTA, BC (March 21, 2011) Opening the $1 billion South Fraser Perimeter Road in 2013, with two intersections adjacent to the Tilbury industrial park area of Delta, according to the official plan, defeats a significant advantage of the new road.
Members of the Delta Chamber of Commerce, at their annual general meeting on March 16, [...]
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Vancouver, March 16, 2011 – The BC Chamber of Commerce greeted the announced Minimum Wage increase today with one major concern, the speed with which the plan arrives at the maximum $10.25.
“The announced raise for the minimum wage is an increase of 20% in just over a year,” said John Winter, President and CEO [...]
DELTA, BC (March 16, 2011) An economic development function to generate more business for Delta, a decentralized focus on communities, industrial parks and their business issues and opportunities, and continued advocacy for interchanges, not intersections, when the South Fraser Perimeter Road opens in 2013, were the focus of decisions which members made at the annual [...]
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with all the provincial and territorial chambers across the country, has been running a national campaign for the past month calling on all federal parliamentarians to keep their promise to reduce business taxes leading up to the next federal budget.
In a message to over 420 local chambers of [...]
DELTA, BC (March 1, 2011) The Delta Chamber of Commerce is speaking up in opposition to the Corporation of Delta’s recommendation on February 7, 2011 that the land in the Tsawwassen community, known as Southlands, be returned to the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). To view the Delta Chamber’s position statement please >>click here>>.
The land was [...]