B.C.’s 2013 salary gains to trail country: conference board
B.C. employees can anticipate the lowest wage increases in the country this year, according to a Conference Board of Canada report issued this morning.
View ArticleColeman loosens liquor regulations
Victoria has announced a loosening of liquor regulations that addresses many of the concerns that brewers, spirit-makers, vintners and liquor-sellers have had for years.
View ArticleWestshore Terminals reopens Berth 1 after collision
Westshore Terminals' Berth 1 is back up and operating, after a ship collision in December damaged the facility's trestle, the company has announced.
View ArticleB.C. companies head to Seattle area aerospace conference
Seventeen B.C. companies and two regional airports will seek new business opportunities this week at an annual aerospace conference held just outside of Seattle.
View ArticleBlack Press buys Washington State papers
Victoria-based Black Press Ltd. has been acquiring U.S. newspapers despite having a comparatively high debt load.
View ArticleHouse Beautiful: West Coast modern
This Sidney home includes two strata residences in open-concept, West Coast style.
View ArticleFinning reports record 2012 revenue despite Q4 slide
Vancouver-based Finning International Inc. (TSX:FTT) this morning announced record annual results, despite a small slide in fourth-quarter revenues.
View ArticleWavefront on track to create 150 new companies: study
Vancouver wireless accelerator Wavefront generated $37 million in GDP across Canada between 2009 and 2012, according to a new economic impact study.
View ArticleExclusive: Cash-strapped schools helped pay TimberWest $5.6m in carbon credits
Forestry company TimberWest received $5.6 million from cash-strapped school districts, hospitals and municipal bodies to save old-growth timber that it didn't plan to cut in the first place, under the...
View ArticleB.C. to tap LNG industry for new tax revenue
Premier Christy Clark announced in Tuesday's throne speech plans to tap the liquefied natural gas industry to create a B.C. version of Alberta's Heritage Fund.
View ArticleCFIB welcomes fixes to unfair credit card practices
Small businesses have just gained new protection against unfair credit card practices, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).
View ArticlePort seeks PR help after coal backlash
Weeks after okaying a controversial coal-handling expansion at Neptune Terminals, Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) is seeking help from a public relations agency.
View ArticleExclusive: Clark was all LNG, all the time on Hong Kong, China mission
Premier Christy Clark's September 10, 2012, meeting in Hong Kong with tycoon Li Ka-shing was all about liquefied natural gas – despite the visit being pitched as an exploration of general trade...
View ArticleLife in the Village pays off for local webzine editor
Marketers of the in-receivership Olympic Village are paying the editor of well-known local culture webzine VancouverIsAwesome.com to blog about the joys of life in the village – but it does not say on...
View ArticleReal-estate media manipulation trend emerges
News yesterday that MAC Marketing had one of its employees pose as a potential homeowner in media interviews has prompted an apology from owner and former Business in Vancouver Forty under 40 winner...
View ArticleBIV to honour Lifetime Achievement recipient, Influential Women in Business...
Business in Vancouver will be honouring May Brown as its 2013 Lifetime Achievement recipient for the Influential Women in Business Awards.
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