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Competitive Assessment of Oceanside Economy 23 Jun 2013 | 08:53 pm
Earlier this year I completed a comprehensive economic analysis of the Oceanside region of Vancouver Island. Located on the east coast of the Island and including the communities of Parksville and Qua...
Impact of Aging on Health Care Costs 26 Jan 2013 | 02:24 pm
I recently gave a presentation at a Forum on Aging in the Fraser Valley Regional District (which is located just to the east of Metro Vancouver). The presentation covered health care as well as transp...
Knowledge-based Employment 10 Jun 2012 | 03:33 pm
I was asked recently by a Metro Vancouver municipality to have a look at the growth in “knowledge-based” employment compared to growth in “other” employment. The expectation is that knowledge-based e...
Richmond commuting 5 Jun 2012 | 08:28 pm
I recently had a conversation with someone from the City of Richmond about commuting patterns and promised to look into the data. I last looked at this while writing Richmond’s business retention and ...
Metro Vancouver Commuting Patterns 23 Apr 2012 | 11:31 am
Prompted by a post on the excellent Fraseropolis blog that discussed how much more quickly job growth is occurring in Metro Vancouver’s suburban areas rather than Vancouver itself, I was curious about...
Impact of Major Developments in Peachland 14 Apr 2012 | 07:55 am
Peachland is a small community of about 5,000 people located in the BC Okanagan, just south and across the lake from Kelowna. It’s a beautiful spot, set into the hills overlooking Okanagan Lake and wi...
Economic Development Session 23 May 2011 | 10:16 am
Jamie will be teaching one of the sessions at the Western Canada Economic Development Course in Richmond, BC in early June. His session is titled “Economic Analysis & Demonstrating ROI for Economic De...
Ucluelet Economic Development Strategy 17 May 2011 | 02:25 am
Jamie will be hosting a workshop this week on the Economic Development Strategy in Ucluelet. Here is the ad running in the local newspaper:
Kootenays lead BC in business growth 27 Feb 2011 | 03:42 pm
The Kootenay region has easily the highest rate of business growth in BC, based on 2010 figures from Statistics Canada’s Business Register. (An explanation and summary of the data is available in this...
Comment on Obama’s State of the Nation 27 Jan 2011 | 10:40 am
One of my former colleagues in the economic development profession and now City Councillor in Surrey, Linda Hepner (@LindaHepner), tweeted the following quote from Obama’s State of the Nation address:...
