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The Westlund Group building in Langley. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

Profane email to client leads to firing of Langley company’s president

Former media company head ousted after insults flung at client

The Westlund Group building in Langley. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
This photo, taken in New York on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, show the logo for Meta's new app Threads, left, and that of Twitter. Meta is poised to unveil the new app that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. A listing for the Threads app appeared on Apple's App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Twitter threatens legal action against Meta over its new rival app Threads

Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new text-based app…

This photo, taken in New York on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, show the logo for Meta's new app Threads, left, and that of Twitter. Meta is poised to unveil the new app that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. A listing for the Threads app appeared on Apple's App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Hudson Johnson-Fairlie and his Woof Wear booth at the Lake Country Spring Market earlier this year. (Sandra Fairlie/Contributed to Black Press Media)

Vernon boy’s love for his Boston Terrier unleashes dog collar business

Hudson Fairlie makes cotton collars for his dog Jax and has since created Woof Wear

Hudson Johnson-Fairlie and his Woof Wear booth at the Lake Country Spring Market earlier this year. (Sandra Fairlie/Contributed to Black Press Media)
A Door Dash Taco Bell order. (Jeremy Schneider | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com | TNS | File Photo)

‘Worn out’: Housing crisis pushes more B.C. workers to add side hustles

Extra income also comes with exhaustion as people try to stay on the right side of shelter costs

  • Jun 27, 2023
A Door Dash Taco Bell order. (Jeremy Schneider | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com | TNS | File Photo)
Eric and Esme Gloster at the opening of their new business Bindoya Meats and Treats, June 17. (Photo submitted by Esme Gloster)

“Bindoya Meats and Treats” brings traditional South African foods to Creston

Esme and Eric Gloster are excited to open their new business and share their food with the community.

Eric and Esme Gloster at the opening of their new business Bindoya Meats and Treats, June 17. (Photo submitted by Esme Gloster)
Portrait of Glowbal CEO Emad Yacoub. Photography by Lia Crowe

Top of the food chain

Glowbal CEO Emad Yacoub is passionate, deliberate and hands-on when it comes to running his highly successful group of restaurants

  • Jun 21, 2023
Portrait of Glowbal CEO Emad Yacoub. Photography by Lia Crowe
FILE - The Reddit app icon is seen on a smartphone on Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. More than 8,000 subreddits, or Reddit communities, have gone dark as of Tuesday, June 13, in protest of upcoming API changes, which include a controversial policy that will charge some third-party apps for continued use. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges

Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest…

FILE - The Reddit app icon is seen on a smartphone on Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. More than 8,000 subreddits, or Reddit communities, have gone dark as of Tuesday, June 13, in protest of upcoming API changes, which include a controversial policy that will charge some third-party apps for continued use. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
The Jackpine site at 4400 Mackenzie Avenue North in Williams Lake as seen June 8, 2023. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

B.C. promises up to $10M to mass timber company eyeing Williams Lake

Massive Canada is planning to operate in the former Jackpine site on Mackenzie Avenue

The Jackpine site at 4400 Mackenzie Avenue North in Williams Lake as seen June 8, 2023. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
FILE - This image released by 20th Century Fox shows the characters Neytiri, right, and Jake in a scene from the 2009 movie "Avatar." The sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water” may have finally arrived in theaters in 2022, but that long parade of “Avatar” delays isn’t done, yet. The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday pushed the release of “Avatar 3” a year, bumping it from December 2024 to December 2025. (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, File)

‘Avatar 3’ pushed to 2024 and Disney sets two ‘Star Wars’ films for 2026

“Avatar: The Way of Water” may have finally arrived in theaters in…

FILE - This image released by 20th Century Fox shows the characters Neytiri, right, and Jake in a scene from the 2009 movie "Avatar." The sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water” may have finally arrived in theaters in 2022, but that long parade of “Avatar” delays isn’t done, yet. The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday pushed the release of “Avatar 3” a year, bumping it from December 2024 to December 2025. (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, File)
FILE - The ChatGPT app is seen on an iPhone in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023. Authorities worldwide are racing to rein in artificial intelligence, including in the European Union, where groundbreaking legislation is set to pass a key hurdle. European Parliament lawmakers are due to vote Wednesday, June 14 on the proposal, along with controversial facial recognition amendments. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI

Lawmakers in Europe signed off Wednesday on the world’s first set of…

FILE - The ChatGPT app is seen on an iPhone in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023. Authorities worldwide are racing to rein in artificial intelligence, including in the European Union, where groundbreaking legislation is set to pass a key hurdle. European Parliament lawmakers are due to vote Wednesday, June 14 on the proposal, along with controversial facial recognition amendments. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
FILE - The logo of the Samsung Electronics Co. is seen at its office in Seoul, South Korea on Jan. 31, 2023. South Korean prosecutors have arrested and indicted a former executive of Samsung Electronics suspected of stealing trade secrets while attempting to establish a copycat computer chip plant in China.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Ex-Samsung exec charged with stealing trade secrets to create copycat chip factory in China

South Korean prosecutors have arrested and indicted a former executive of Samsung…

FILE - The logo of the Samsung Electronics Co. is seen at its office in Seoul, South Korea on Jan. 31, 2023. South Korean prosecutors have arrested and indicted a former executive of Samsung Electronics suspected of stealing trade secrets while attempting to establish a copycat computer chip plant in China.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
Brandt Fralick portrait by Lia Crowe photography

Prime Time

Brandt Fralick’s rocky road to success

  • Jun 9, 2023
Brandt Fralick portrait by Lia Crowe photography
April 19, 2023 - Glenn Rogers, owner of Marshall's Home Living for Okanagan Business feature. Don Denton photo

Business Sense with Glenn Rogers

The right fit at Marshall’s Home Living

  • Jun 5, 2023
April 19, 2023 - Glenn Rogers, owner of Marshall's Home Living for Okanagan Business feature. Don Denton photo
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 - Employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's headquarters on Nov. 13, 2018, in Seattle. A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company's environmental impact is planning a walkout at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Corporate Amazon workers protest company’s climate impact and return-to-office mandate in walkout

Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what…

FILE - Employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's headquarters on Nov. 13, 2018, in Seattle. A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company's environmental impact is planning a walkout at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
In this photo provided by Air New Zealand, a woman hands her bag to a staff member to be weighed ahead of a flight in Auckland, New Zealand, on May 29, 2023. New Zealand's national airline is asking people to step on the scales before they board international flights. Air New Zealand says it wants to weigh 10,000 passengers as part of a monthlong survey to better estimate the weight and balance of its planes. (Air New Zealand via AP)

New Zealand airline is asking passengers to weigh in before their flights

New Zealand’s national airline is asking passengers to step on the scales…

In this photo provided by Air New Zealand, a woman hands her bag to a staff member to be weighed ahead of a flight in Auckland, New Zealand, on May 29, 2023. New Zealand's national airline is asking people to step on the scales before they board international flights. Air New Zealand says it wants to weigh 10,000 passengers as part of a monthlong survey to better estimate the weight and balance of its planes. (Air New Zealand via AP)
FILE - Elizabeth Holmes, then the CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Fortune Global Forum on Nov. 2, 2015 in San Francisco. As Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that laid bare the blood-testing scam at the heart of her Theranos startup is entering its final phase.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for notorious blood-testing hoax

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered a Texas prison Tuesday where she could…

FILE - Elizabeth Holmes, then the CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Fortune Global Forum on Nov. 2, 2015 in San Francisco. As Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that laid bare the blood-testing scam at the heart of her Theranos startup is entering its final phase.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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)
Brenda Bailey, B.C.’s minister of jobs, announced a new youth in manufacturing initiative at a press conference held at VMAC Global Technology Inc. in Nanaimo on Monday, May 15. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

B.C. government partnering with industry to attract youths to manufacturing sector

Province makes announcement at VMAC in Nanaimo

Brenda Bailey, B.C.’s minister of jobs, announced a new youth in manufacturing initiative at a press conference held at VMAC Global Technology Inc. in Nanaimo on Monday, May 15. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)