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Shop Small Every Day

Think of your average businessperson in the Okanagan Valley for a couple of minutes and you’ll realize they are anything but average. She might have grown up here, started or bought a small business that she runs diligently enough to nourish and care for her family....
Spokes and Wheels of Progress

Spokes and Wheels of Progress

I was late for school. My new 10-speed— salvation! Throwing my math book into a plastic shopping bag, I fled breakfast to negotiate the cars, fences and cats through the alley to arrive at the 20th street stop sign; purring through it without a care. Thirteen year...
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Money Can Be Funny

Buying local is the best way to fuel the Okanagan economy. Exercising your democratic right to choose will not only help local business people survive and thrive; it will allow you the satisfaction of occupying the brain of a billionaire. Once upon a time, the world...
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A New Way to Think

The last decade has seen unprecedented unethical behaviour in the corporate world. Ponzi schemes, cooked books, too-big-to-fail corporations and billions of dollars in bailouts have driven the economy over a cliff. The Occupy Wall Street movement, which reached the...
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Does Okanagan Living Make Us Happier

In this corner, San Luis Obispo, the happiest place in America as named by National Geographic writer Dan Buettner; and in this corner, the Okanagan, thought of as one of the happiest places in Canada by its citizens, media and country. Looks like we’ve got us another...