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Specialty ‘custom cutters’ added to BC Timber Sales program
14+ hour, 21+ min ago (337+ words) Published 11:41 am Monday, July 13, 2026 Forests Minister Ravi Parmar in Vancouver on June 16, 2026. (Lauren Collins/Black Press Media) B.C.’s Forests ministry is expanding a program that allows value-added manufacturers to access BC Timber Sales logs to include specialty “custom cutters” who…...
Nakusp wood company granted logging licence near Slocan
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (281+ words) Published 1:48 pm Wednesday, April 8, 2026 By Nelson Star Staff Nakusp’s Box Lake Lumber Products will have five years of access to a timber licence in an area west of Slocan. (Google) A Nakusp company has been awarded a five-year licence to…...
Feds commit $70.4M for worker training in B.C. amid tariff upheaval
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (260+ words) Published 4:30 pm Thursday, March 5, 2026 Federal Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu in Victoria on Thursday, March 5, announcing a new retraining program for B.C. workers. (Mark Page/Black Press Media) The federal government is putting up $70.4 million over three years to fund…...
Castlegar’s Kalesnikoff Lumber gets $5.5 million in federal tariff funding
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (437+ words) Published 8:30 pm Monday, March 2, 2026 Canada’s minister of housing and infrastructure Gregor Robertson stands with Kalesnikoff Lumber’s Krystle Seed (L) and Chris Kalesnikoff (L) during a March 2 funding announcement. (Betsy Kline/Castlegar News) Canada’s minister of housing and infrastructure Gregor Robertson…...
BC Conservatives have ideas on responding to new U.S. lumber tariffs
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (528+ words) Canada has been slapped with additional tariffs on lumber and timber by the Trump Administration Tuesday, and BC Conservative leader John Rustad and Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Ward Stamer said thermal coal shipments need to be the target of retaliatory measures....