Business
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Community Futures
Provides business services and financing to entrepreneurs as well as facilitating economic development of communities in the East Kootenay.
Small Business BC
British Columbia's key resource centre for business information and services.
The Basin Business Advocates Program (BBA)
Created by Columbia Basin Trust to build economic capacity in Basin communities by strengthening and supporting existing businesses. The BBA program assists small and medium sized independent business operators in the Columbia Basin by providing free one-to-one confidential business counselling and assessment services, and by arranging and cost-sharing specialized consulting services if recommended by BBA staff.
West Kootenays: Deanne Monroe 1.250.825.4171
Canada's Business and Consumer information site.
BC Technology Industries Association
The voice of BC's technology industry, encompassing companies of all sizes and in all sectors of technology.
Angel Forum
Introduces companies to private equity investors at a Vancouver forum hosted twice a year.
AceTech
Learning, development and networking for CEOs in technology and life sciences.
eBusiness Connection (eBC)Offers e-business information services to help BC’s smallbusinesses adapt to technological change, as well as maintaining and growing their businesses.
T-Net British Columbia
Provides information and business services to technology companies,industry suppliers and individuals within the BC technology industry.
New Ventures BC Competition
New Ventures BC is committed to offering a province-wide competition and offers all seminars via webcast live and archived online for everyone to review. Watch NVBC Seminars Online HERE.
Training Tax Credit Program
British Columbia Ministry of Small Business and Revenue
Employers – non-refundable tax credit equal to 10% of wages paid up to $2,000 per apprentice in the first 24 months of a non-Red Seal apprenticeship program.
Employees - non-refundable tax credit equal to $1,000 per year for the first two years of any non-Red Seal apprenticeship program.
www.sbr.gov.bc.ca/business/income_taxes/ttc/
PowerSmart Programs for Business
BC Hydro
BC Hydro offers a number of incentives to reduce energy consumption. Power Smart Product Incentives are available for business to replace existing inefficient products with energy-efficient technologies, and the High Performance Building Program has a range of offers for developers of new energy-efficient commercial buildings.
www.bchydro.com/business/identify/identify722.html
Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Credit Program
British Columbia Ministry of Small Business and Revenue
Provides a 10% tax credit to qualifying corporations that carry on SR&ED in British Columbia.
www.sbr.gov.bc.ca/business/Income_Taxes/Corporation_Income_Tax/tax_credits/scientific_research.htm
Federal Government of Canada – Apprenticeship Job Creation Tax Credit
Employers - non-refundable tax credit equal to 10% of wages paid up to $2,000 per apprentice for the first 24 months of a non-Red Seal apprenticeship program.
www.cra-arc.gc.ca/whtsnw/pprntcshp-eng.html
Small Business BC
www.smallbusinessbc.ca/
International Trade Training for Small Business
www.tradestart.ca
Business Guide to Canadian Government Programs
www.businessguide.net/
Small Business Funding Center
www.canadagrants.grants-loans.org/
Canadian Assistance Programs Directory
www.can-grants.com/
Canada Business Services
www.canadabusiness.ca/epic/site/sof-sdf.nsf/en/Home
Selling to Governement
http://www.sbr.gov.bc.ca/resource-centre/stg/index.htm
Microsoft's Network for Canadian Developers
The MSDN Canada website is the one-stop shop for Microsoft developer resources, including software evaluations, code samples, downloads, community pages, technical support and documentation, upcoming events, webcasts, virtual labs and more.