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BC Businesses Collaborate to Create Canada’s First Seaweed Peated Whisky

In 2018, the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance (VIEA) using its new designation as FTZVI, Canada’s 12th Foreign Trade Zone, developed four business cases to attract Foreign Direct Investment. The business case… Read more

April 23, 2020 Video Conference – Parliamentary Secretary, Terry Beech, MP

Keeping Good Company While Preparing for the Next Step… Welcome to VIEA’s Video Conference Series. We appreciate that a lot of information is available and that much… Read more

VIEA Puts Spotlight On All Things Local

The ‘Island Good’ Initiative Brings Island Products And The Companies Who Make Them To The Forefront NANAIMO – Founded in 2006 as an island-wide economic development organization,… Read more

April 21, 2020 Video Conference – Digital Economy Response Program

Welcome to VIEA’s Video Conference Series Keeping Good Company While Preparing for the Next Step… We appreciate that a lot of information is available and that much… Read more

April 17, 2020 Video Conference – Small Business BC ‘Hotline’

Welcome to VIEA’s Video Conference Series Keeping Good Company While Preparing for the Next Step… We appreciate that a lot of information is available and that much… Read more

April 7, 2020 Video Conference – How to Approach Loan & Mortgage Payments with your Lender

Keeping Good Company While Preparing for the Next Step… Welcome to VIEA’s Video Conference Series. We appreciate that a lot of information is available and that much… Read more

Winnipeg Ventilator Could be a Life-Saver

April 3, 2020 By Martin Cash “Led by Starfish and backed by millions of dollars of federal government resources, the consortium has come up with a manufacturable… Read more

Nanaimo Air Compressor Business Helps Manufacture Parts for COVID-19 fight

April 1, 2020 By Chris Bush VMAC has crafted parts now being tested in prototype ventilator created at University of Minnesota A Nanaimo manufacturing company has joined… Read more

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