Vancouver's high office prices
Paul Harris reports that Vancouver has Canada's highest office prices on Global BC
View ArticleSNC-Lavalin's B.C. operations on World Bank corruption 10-year blacklist
SNC-Lavalin Inc.-associated companies involved in some of British Columbia's biggest transportation projects – from the Canada Line to Vancouver International Airport to the Sea-to-Sky Highway – are...
View ArticleGaming, animation and visual effects career fair in town this weekend
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is hosting its second annual VES Vancouver Career Fair this weekend, according technology blog Techvibes.com.
View ArticleFacebook by far B.C.'s most liked social media network: poll
Two-thirds of British Columbians use Facebook at least once per week and half use it daily, according to an online survey conducted by pollster Insights West and Internet marketing company 6S Marketing.
View ArticleCouncil poised to approve new Vancouver Art Gallery
The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) appears poised to get council approval to build a new $300 million, 310,000-square-foot art gallery on a 1.8-acre downtown city block bounded by Cambie, Dunsmuir, Beatty...
View ArticleInvestment in non-residential construction hits record high in Metro Vancouver
Investment in non-residential construction in Metro Vancouver has continued its upward trend for the fifth consecutive quarter, hitting a record high in Q1 of 2013, according to the Vancouver Regional...
View ArticleVancouver Canucks finalize deal to buy Peoria Rivermen
The American Hockey League (AHL) yesterday announced its approval for the Vancouver Canucks to buy the Peoria Rivermen.
View ArticleBlack gets backing for $25b Kitimat refinery from China's largest bank
Newspaper magnate David Black's company Kitimat Clean has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China's largest bank, to back his $25 billion...
View ArticleHow I did it: Nicholas Brand
Self-taught entrepreneur struggled to capitalize on runaway success
View ArticleBiggest commercial printers in the Lower Mainland
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View ArticleBiggest graphic design firms in B.C.
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View ArticleBiggest life sciences companies in B.C.
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View ArticleB.C. horse racing industry’s circuitous navel-gazing continues
If I had a racehorse stabled at Hastings Racecourse, the name I’d give it would be Take Out the Trash Friday after the communications stunt pulled by the BC Liberal government.
View ArticlePreventing chronic disease is key to debt reduction in B.C.
As the B.C. election campaign ramps up, let’s face up to the two biggest economic issue facing our province: soaring health-care costs – and their causes.
View ArticleThe optimist versus the actor: Liberal election fortunes brighten
Christy Clark is bound and determined to prove I am uniquely correct in predicting she will be re-elected May 14 as premier of some, not all, of the people.
View ArticleTax subsidy fiction and other film industry fairy tales
The recent announcement by B.C.’s New Democrats that, if elected, they’d up the provincial film tax credit for labour costs (to 40% from the existing 35%) is another example of how some parties close...
View Article$25,000 on parking meters: City financial report reveals big and little buys
It cost Vancouver taxpayers the equivalent of nearly 25,000 shiny new loonies to retrofit parking meters to accept the Royal Canadian Mint’s new 2012 coins.
View ArticleHome ownership is a hurdle for Generation Y
Generation Y faces many more barriers to home ownership than their baby-boomer parents did, according to a TD Canada Trust report released today.
View ArticleDevelopment deluge to remake face of North Shore
New forms of housing, increased density to diversify single-family focused areas
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