Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – January 21, 2011
Jan 24, 2011
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending January 21, 2011.
Support Local Businesses
- It’s important to shop local, SFU marketing expert Lindsay Meredith told the Burnaby NewsLeader, otherwise small businesses will disappear. “If you don’t supply some business to your local business infrastructure, that basically means that store is not going to be there when you do decide you want it,” he said.
Full story: http://at.sfu.ca/cbDqCA
Violence on the River
- Glenn Sigurdson with SFU Business is working a group of First Nations and sports fishermen in a pilot project to curb violence amongst people who fish the Fraser River, reports the Abbotsford Times.
Full story: http://i.sfu.ca/sHazTX
Also in the News
- According to The Vancouver Sun, a new report said B.C. and Canada will benefit from private Chinese small- and medium-sized businesses ramping up investment in industries beyond the resource sector. SFU adjunct business professor Steven Globerman said much of Canada’s share of foreign direct investment is from “emerging economies, particularly in the oil and gas and mining sectors.”
- CBC-Radio’s On the Coast show spoke with SFU clinical psychologist Joti Samra about the effects of depression during the winter months. SFU real estate expert Andrey Pavlov was also a guest on the show to talk about the proposed changes to mortgage rules that Ottawa announced earlier this week.