TransCanada wins bid for $5b gas transmission project
Progress Energy Canada Ltd. has selected TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP; NYSE:TRP) to design, build, own and operate a proposed $5 billion Prince Rupert natural gas pipeline.
View ArticleSupreme court tells yoga college to straighten up
A BC Supreme Court judge this week ordered a Vancouver yoga teachers' school to stop offering courses until it meets provincial requirements.
View ArticleCanada's Eldorado Gold to spend almost $100 million on exploration in 2013
Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold Corp (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) announced Wednesday it would spend $98.5 million on exploration in 2013, and posted 2012 production results that came in just shy of its mid-year...
View ArticleB.C. housing starts fall in December
Housing starts in B.C. fell in December, although total starts in the month were relatively flat compared with a year ago, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. announced January 9.
View ArticleBCSC fines directors $6.9m for securities misconduct
The BC Securities Commission (BCSC) has permanently banned two directors of a B.C. company and fined them $6.9 million for breaching securities laws.
View ArticleBreaking: Film, TV, gaming left out of BC Jobs Plan
Premier Christy Clark’s BC Jobs Plan boosts agrifoods, forestry, mining, natural gas, international education, technology, tourism and transportation – but not the declining film, television or...
View ArticleMDA lands $706m Canadian satellite contract
Richmond-based MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) (TSX:MDA) has signed a $706 million contract with the Canadian Space Agency to build three radar satellites, the company announced yesterday.
View ArticleDevelopers plan to turn Waldorf Hotel into condos
Condominium developer Solterra Group of Companies has bought East Vancouver's Waldorf Hotel from Marko Puharich for an undisclosed price and is expected to build residential units on the site that has...
View ArticleWhen to consider a partnership
Getting clear on what your goal is as an entrepreneur is the first step in figuring out when and why you should consider a partnership
View ArticleHow I did it: Gary Charlwood
The Uniglobe founder and CEO has continued to build his company despite ongoing upheaval in the global travel sector
View ArticleDissecting and debating divergent economic world views in 2013
One of my daughters gave me a clever Christmas gift: a matching set of "The World in 2013" issue from The Economist and "The Big Ideas of 2013" from Adbusters Canada ("Journal of the Mental...
View ArticleCanada increasingly a pushover for China’s economic imperialism
Today Canada is eagerly kissing neo-imperialist China’s backside, its face clearly revealed by the still-ubiquitous public posters of mass murderer and towering economic bungler Mao Zedong
View ArticleProduction companies sue over film credits
Production companies Network Entertainment Inc. and Network Pictures Twelve Inc. have filed suit after a film deal for the companies to produce a television pilot was allegedly breached.The plaintiffs...
View ArticleLife Lessons: David Helliwell
The CEO and co-founder of Pulse Energy learned the importance of reassessing strategy to build your business
View ArticleLucara recovers more rare blue diamonds
Just two months after announcing the recovery of a 9.46-carat rare blue diamond from its Karowe mine in Botswana, Vancouver-based Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC) says it has found two additional blue...
View ArticleBC Young Liberals push federal government for national energy strategy
The Young Liberals of Canada in B.C. are calling on Liberal Party members to support a proposed policy for a national energy strategy at a party policy conference next week in Surrey.
View ArticleVancouver housing prices to continue slide: Royal LePage
Vancouver housing prices have fallen year-over-year and will continue to drop this year, according to Royal LePage's House Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast, released this morning.
View ArticleSFU professor urges province to focus on creative sector
Simon Fraser University professor Rowland Lorimer believes he has solutions to create low-rent space for local artists and bolster B.C.’s tourism sector: a provincial government that is more attentive...
View ArticleWendy McDonald passes away at 90
Vancouver's business community is expressing its condolences following the passing of Wendy McDonald, longtime business luminary and 2006 Business in Vancouver Influential Women In Business lifetime...
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