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OBA Awards Gala POSTPONED to September 10, 2020 | Flamborough Hills Golf Club
Every year, the Flamborough Chamber of Commerce (FCC) honours and celebrates the very best in corporate excellence and community service at its Outstanding Business Achievement (OBA) awards gala. OBA Award Gala POSTPONED As a result of the continued COVID-19 situation, The Flamborough Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Business Achievement Awards that were to take place on June 8,…
Read More$15 MINIMUM WAGE
A wholesale revamping of Ontario’s labour laws – which includes raising the minimum wage to $14 on January 1, 2018 and $15 on January 1, 2019 – is sending shock waves throughout the province’s business community. The Keep Ontario Working Coalition (KOWC) – which includes the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) as a member –…
Read More10 WAYS TO BUILD A CANADA THAT WINS
Last week, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) released Ten Ways to Build a Canada that Wins – a list of 10 opportunities Canada can seize right now to regain its competitiveness, improve its productivity and grow its economy. The CCC also outlined specific recommendations to advocate throughout the year. This is a change from…
Read MoreTrue North Records & La Bamba
LA BAMBA There is a saying that goes something like this: “There are those who wait for things to happen … and there are those who make things happen,” If the saying has any merit, then certainly Brooke and Geoff Kulawick of True North Records in downtown Waterdown fall into the latter category. After launching…
Read MoreSUPER WEDNESDAY
Next Wednesday – January 16 – could go down as one of the most important in the history of Flamborough (second only to amalgamation, of course). And it will be one of the busiest ever for the FCC!! Super Wednesday starts with a morning meeting where Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale MPP Ted McMeekin – the Minister of Agriculture, Food…
Read More3-FOR-1 MEMBERSHIP
Just as the FCC is the ‘Voice of Business’ for Flamborough companies in the local political arena, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) speak out and act on behalf of FCC members in the federal and provincial arenas. Did you know that your membership in the FCC also…
Read MoreA FEDERAL AGENDA FOR ONTARIO
Not be be outdone, the OCC recently released a report (A Federal Agenda for Ontario) which “makes 14 recommendations that, if implemented, would allow Ontario to retain and build on its competitiveness in the global economy.” The report also claims that “at its core, the recommendations provide direction to the federal government on the role…
Read MoreFCC CONDOLENCES
The FCC extends its sincerest sympathies to Past President Jim Wilkinson and his entire extended family on the passing on Christmas Day of Jim’s mother Ruth Isobel Wilkinson. A fascinating woman (aka ‘Party Ruthie’), Mrs. Wilkinson along with her late husband William (Bill) built W. E. Wilkinson Ltd. on Clappison’s Cut. The business now operates…
Read MoreSUPER WEDNESDAY – JANUARY 16
The Flamborough Chamber of Commerce (FCC) is starting off 2013 with a double header!! Wednesday, January 16 starts with a morning meeting where Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale MPP – and Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) in the Dalton McGuinty provincial Cabinet – Ted McMeekin will be our special guest. Considering all that is going on…
Read MoreTHE FCC IN THE NEWS
A comprehensive review of the recent visit by City Manager Chris Murray to the Flamborough Breakfast Club was published in theFlamborough Review. You can read the article by clicking HERE. And a column by FCC Executive Director Arend Kersten re the potential ‘double whammy’ Flamborough is facing published in the December edition of Hamilton Business (a project of the Hamilton Spectator)…
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