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Jeanette LeBlanc, Gold Quill Award Winner in Marketing, Advertising and Brand Communication

By Mona Lee
January 29, 2024

Jeanette LeBlanc and her team were honoured with the Gold Quill Award for building an employer brand platform to raise awareness for careers at BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS), part… Read more

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Fraser Health’s Award-Winning Project Looks Inside the ICU During COVID-19

By Mona Lee
January 16, 2024

Fraser Health’s Carrie Stefanson is the winner of the 2023 Gold Quill Award of Merit in Media Relations for the project, “Inside the Intensive Care Unit During COVID-19.”  During the… Read more

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Expand your network and grow your career with IABC/BC: Calling for speakers interested in presenting at our upcoming Professional Development events!

December 15, 2023

IABC/BC Call for Speakers is an open invitation to all business professional communicators, thought leaders, executives, consultants, and academics. We are interested to share and hold discussions about your stories… Read more

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Feedback on the 2023 Mentorship Program

By Liana Boswell
November 23, 2023

Communications is a two-way street, that’s why IABC/BC is proud to announce that we got some great feedback from our formal mentorship program that took place in April-June 2023. And… Read more

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Congratulations to the 2023 Wave Award nominees!

June 2, 2023

The IABC/BC Wave Awards are IABC/BC’s signature awards program, celebrating our chapter’s most exceptional communicators. Congratulations to all the nominees for this year’s Wave Awards and thank you to everyone… Read more

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2022 SAIL Award Winner Erica Apacible on what it means to win a Wave Award

April 14, 2023

I’ve been having a pinch-me moment for more than a year now.  My communications career hit the gas in 2020, right when much of the world seemed to come to… Read more

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Competition or Collaboration: Artificial Intelligence

By Maycko Macapugas
March 12, 2023

Artificial Intelligence – there are few things that have been as polarizing as this. For the most part, speculators are divided into two main camps; the technology will either be… Read more

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GCCC introduces remote proctoring for CMP® and SCMP® certifications

March 3, 2023

With remote proctoring, you now have the option to write your CMP® or SCMP® certification exam from the comfort of your own home or office at a time that works… Read more

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“Behind every success is a human story”: FortisBC’s Michelle Petrusevich on their Gold Quill winning public safety campaign

January 29, 2023

Michelle Petrusevich and her colleagues at FortisBC had a serious mission: inform the public about the dangers of disturbing buried utility lines, including gas lines. In 2021, with more homeowners… Read more

Digital Insights from the Global Pandemic

By Rashmi Sharma
May 30, 2022

Assess and Adapt: Communicating Digitally in a Global Pandemic Everyone around the world has been navigating unforeseen and unpredictable challenges at work in the last two years, but digital communicators… Read more

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