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Columbia Basin Trust received a $295 million endowment by the Province. $250 million is committed to finance power project construction. As directed by Basin residents, $45 million is being reinvested for the benefit of Basin residents through short-term cash investments, business loans, real estate ownership, and venture capital projects.
Crown corporations in BC are public-sector organizations established and funded by the Government of British Columbia to provide specialized goods and services to citizens. [1] They operate at varying levels of government control, depending on how they are defined, funded, and the kinds of services they provide.
Columbia Power Corporation is a Crown Corporation, owned by the province of British Columbia, Canada. Its mandate is to undertake hydro-electricity projects in the Columbia River region of British Columbia. In so doing, it is required to work with its sister crown corporation the Columbia Basin Trust. Its assets include:
Cranbrook (/ ˈ k r æ n b r ʊ k / KRAN-bruuk) is a city in southeast British Columbia, Canada, located approximately 10 km southwest of the confluence of the Kootenay River and the St. Mary's River. [6] It is the largest urban centre in the region known as the East Kootenay.
Dec. 5—CASHMERE — The Columbia Basin Project is making gradual progress toward completion with significant accomplishments for the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program and other milestones ...
In April 2014, the Ministry of Advanced Education announced they would assume direct responsibility for the regulation of private career training in BC. [1] The PCTIA was dissolved on September 1, 2016 when the responsibility for the regulation of private career training was brought into government.
In 1944, the Canadian and U.S. governments agreed to begin studying the potential for joint development of dams in the Columbia River basin. Planning efforts were slow until the 1948 Columbia River flood caused extensive damage from Trail, British Columbia, to near Astoria, Oregon, completely destroying Vanport, the second-largest city in Oregon.
BC Housing is currently under the Ministry of Attorney General and Minister responsible for Housing and located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. They license residential builders, administer owner builder authorizations and carry out research and education that benefits the residential construction industry, consumers and the affordable ...