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A passenger boards a WestJet Encore Bombardier Q400 twin-engined turboprop aircraft in Kamloops, Saturday, June 3, 2023. WestJet and Swoop pilots ratified their collective agreement after a bargaining process that saw the threat of a strike snarl many Canadians’ long weekend plans. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

WestJet to wind down budget airline Swoop, fold it into main operation

Each trip by the carrier’s 180-plane fleet will offer a portion of ultra-low-cost fares

The Bank of Canada building is pictured in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. The Bank’s deputy governor Paul Beaudry delivered an economic progress report in Victoria, offering insight into the central bank’s decision to raise its key interest rate to 4.75 per cent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Future interest rate decisions will be taken one at a time, says BoC deputy governor

‘Every decision is taken one at a time at this point’

Cameron Shute, from Nelson, B.C., whose small business Dark Horse Innovations is part of a growing number of outdoor gear makers, designers and manufacturers in the Kootenays region of the province, is shown in a handout photo. (Peter Moynes photo/Contributed to The Canadian Press)

‘Craft gear from here:’ Kootenays eyed by wilderness lovers and entrepreneurs alike

‘In the beginning, it was people who were already here, but now we’re finding people are moving here just to make gear’

Plato’s Closet in Kelowna officially opened its doors on June 8, 2023. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)

New buy-and-sell store adds to Kelowna couple’s thrift store legacy

Plato’s Closet is located on Baron Road next to Once Upon a Child

Plato’s Closet in Kelowna officially opened its doors on June 8, 2023. (Brittany Webster/Capital News)
Bid Group Salmon Arm branch staff, including manager Wilf Rischmueller and assistant manager Jason Rischmueller (front right), have been celebrating a workplace milestone: 2,000 consecutive work days without time lost to injury. (Lachlan Labere-Salmon Arm Observer)

Bid Group’s Salmon Arm branch celebrating 2,000 days without time lost to injuries

‘It’s extremely unheard of to have this many safety days in our industry…’

Bid Group Salmon Arm branch staff, including manager Wilf Rischmueller and assistant manager Jason Rischmueller (front right), have been celebrating a workplace milestone: 2,000 consecutive work days without time lost to injury. (Lachlan Labere-Salmon Arm Observer)
Natasha Acuba-Bailey (centre), her husband Mark (left), and mother Telly (right), selling adobo flakes at Robson Square (Contributed Natasha Acuba-Bailey).

Side hustle turns into full-time passion for B.C. entrepreneur

Natasha Acuba-Bailey created Manila Kitchen as a secondary source of income

Natasha Acuba-Bailey (centre), her husband Mark (left), and mother Telly (right), selling adobo flakes at Robson Square (Contributed Natasha Acuba-Bailey).
File - People stand outside of the Steve Jobs Theater before an event on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Cupertino, Calif. If Apple unveils a widely anticipated headset equipped with mixed reality technology at the theater on Monday, it will be the company's biggest new product since the introduction of the Apple Watch nearly a decade ago.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Apple is expected to unveil a sleek, pricey headset. Is it the device VR has been looking for?

Apple appears poised to unveil a long-rumored headset that will place its…

File - People stand outside of the Steve Jobs Theater before an event on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Cupertino, Calif. If Apple unveils a widely anticipated headset equipped with mixed reality technology at the theater on Monday, it will be the company's biggest new product since the introduction of the Apple Watch nearly a decade ago.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
FILE - Ernie Field pushes the doorbell on his Ring doorbell camera, July 16, 2019, at his home in Wolcott, Conn. In a vote Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission is ordering Amazon to pay more than $30 million in fines over privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Amazon to pay $31 million in privacy violation penalties for Alexa voice assistant and Ring camera

Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle…

FILE - Ernie Field pushes the doorbell on his Ring doorbell camera, July 16, 2019, at his home in Wolcott, Conn. In a vote Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission is ordering Amazon to pay more than $30 million in fines over privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
FILE - Apple CEO Tim Cook smiles at an Apple event in Cupertino, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2022. After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing. Cook, who was number three in the AP CEO pay survey, requested a 40% pay cut in 2023 after shareholders questioned the size and structure of his $99.4 million compensation package in 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

CEOs got smaller raises, but would still take employees 2 lifetimes to match annual pay

Typical compensation package for chief executives who run S&P 500 companies rose just 0.9% last yea

FILE - Apple CEO Tim Cook smiles at an Apple event in Cupertino, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2022. After ballooning for years, CEO pay growth is finally slowing. Cook, who was number three in the AP CEO pay survey, requested a 40% pay cut in 2023 after shareholders questioned the size and structure of his $99.4 million compensation package in 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
A woman walks past a Freedom Mobile in Toronto on Thursday, November 24, 2016. On the heels of the sale of Freedom Mobile, and amid an increased interest in unionization among retail and service workers, Teamsters Canada says retail and call centre employees at Freedom Mobile are looking to unionize.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Freedom Mobile workers seeking union after acquisition: Teamsters Canada

Call centre workers have been unionizing for years, said economist and labour expert Jim Stanford

A woman walks past a Freedom Mobile in Toronto on Thursday, November 24, 2016. On the heels of the sale of Freedom Mobile, and amid an increased interest in unionization among retail and service workers, Teamsters Canada says retail and call centre employees at Freedom Mobile are looking to unionize.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. Statistics Canada is set to release its gross domestic product figures for the month of March, as well as the first quarter of the year.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Canada’s economy continues to outperform, raising odds of rate hike next week

The Canadian economy grew faster than expected in the first three months…

Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. Statistics Canada is set to release its gross domestic product figures for the month of March, as well as the first quarter of the year.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
A UBC research reveals that customers prefer self-checkout or interacting with robotic individuals when purchasing blush-inducing items. (Courtesy/Contributed to Black Press Media)

Self-checkout preferred for blush-inducing purchases, B.C. study affirms

UBC Sauder research sheds light on consumer choices in embarrassing purchase situations

A UBC research reveals that customers prefer self-checkout or interacting with robotic individuals when purchasing blush-inducing items. (Courtesy/Contributed to Black Press Media)
Guillermo Hernandez, right, a soil scientist, and Camila Quiroz, a research intern from Peru, look over their plants in a research room used to simulate sunlight at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in this undated handout photo. (Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez/University of Alberta)

‘More connected’: Researchers looking at growing food under solar panels

This could help Alberta winters, researchers have mentioned

Guillermo Hernandez, right, a soil scientist, and Camila Quiroz, a research intern from Peru, look over their plants in a research room used to simulate sunlight at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in this undated handout photo. (Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez/University of Alberta)
Exploration of an area around Princeton is set to begin for a deposit that could make a new Copper Mountain Mine. (Collective Metals)

Hunt is on for another Copper Mountain Mine near Princeton

Mineral exploration company working around Princeton

Exploration of an area around Princeton is set to begin for a deposit that could make a new Copper Mountain Mine. (Collective Metals)
Boo preps for his big debut (Image/ Nicola Green)

Boo the bear preps for big debut as Kicking Horse Resort opens

The Grizzly Bear Refuge opens May 27 near Golden

Boo preps for his big debut (Image/ Nicola Green)
The family owned Bryton Marine Group (which incorporates KingFisher Boats) was just awarded Gold Standard for Canada’s best managed companies. (Contributed)

Vernon boat business shores up Canadian honour, again

Bryton Marine Group was given Gold Standard for Canada’s best managed companies

The family owned Bryton Marine Group (which incorporates KingFisher Boats) was just awarded Gold Standard for Canada’s best managed companies. (Contributed)
FILE - Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. European Union hits Facebook parent Meta with record $1.3 billion fine over transfers of user data to US. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US

The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine…

FILE - Attendees visit the Meta booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. European Union hits Facebook parent Meta with record $1.3 billion fine over transfers of user data to US. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
This photo, in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023, shows the ChatGPT app on an iPhone. The free app started to become available on iPhones in the U.S. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android phones. Unlike the web version, you can also ask it questions using your voice. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

ChatGPT makes its debut as a smartphone app on iPhones

ChatGPT is now a smartphone app, which could be good news for…

This photo, in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023, shows the ChatGPT app on an iPhone. The free app started to become available on iPhones in the U.S. on Thursday and will later be coming to Android phones. Unlike the web version, you can also ask it questions using your voice. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
(The Canadian Press)

Tech, sustainability key to attracting young talent to an evolving agriculture sector

Twelve per cent of farms told Statistics Canada they had a succession plan in 2021

(The Canadian Press)
Better Together Ice Cream Co. (contributed)

Kelowna couple bringing ice cream and family together with new business

Better Together Ice Cream Co. had its opening day at the farmers’ market on May 20

Better Together Ice Cream Co. (contributed)