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Granville Street merchants grappling with losses due to the June 15 riot can look forward to lots of weekend foot traffic on Granville Street all summer long, thanks to an initiative the City of Vancouver is calling Viva Vancouver.

The number of British Columbians who received regular employment insurance (EI) fell 3.7% to 67,000 people in April compared with March, according to Statistics Canada . That’s the seventh consecutive month that the number of EI recipients in B.C.

Canadians are among the most tech-hungry and savvy in the world, market-research company TNS Canada has found in a new survey.

Public funding cuts to the 26th annual Vancouver International Jazz Festival , which starts tonight and runs until July 3, will mean a smaller festival than in past years.

Thirty-five-year-old Nicaraguan miner Victor Vilchez Martinez has died as the result of flooding at a Nicaraguan mine owned by Vancouver-based B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO; OTCQX: BGLPF), the company announced this morning.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is commending the B.C.

Confusing application processes, excessive paperwork and a complex system of rules are causing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to feel shut out of many federal procurement opportunities.

About 700 B.C.-based workers at Finning International Inc. went on strike at 4 p.m. on June 22. The move came as a surprise, despite the company (TSX:FTT) notifying media June 20 that its union had the legal right to strike.

Vancouver-based miner Crowflight Minerals Inc . has delivered its first nickel concentrate shipment from its Bucko Lake mine in Manitoba following that mine’s reopening in April.

In an effort to raise its profile and communicate its array of functions, Vancouver Airport Authority (VAA) has launched a contest to locate a video storyteller to live at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) for 80 days and nights and chronicle the