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North American employees with higher levels of education show greater job engagement combined with higher stress levels and more problems managing work-life balance, according to the GfK Global Employee Engagement Survey released this morning.

The sixth largest commercial book publisher in the U.S. has contracted a Vancouver company to distribute its books across Canada, thereby shunning many large Toronto-based book distributors.

BMO Bank of Montreal is calling moms in business a “growing force” in Canada, noting that Statistics Canada has identified that 80% of new Canadian business owners are women, a large percentage of whom are moms.

The BC Technology Industry Association (BCTIA) has named this year’s 2011 Technology Impact Award (TIA) winners, highlighting some of industry’s top performers.

City of Kimberley economic development officer Heather Hornoi , the District of Elkford and Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission ’s Metabridge project have won the 2011 B.C. Economic Development Awards.

The University of British Columbia ’s board of governors on June 8 approved a 15-bed hospice on its west side Vancouver campus near a highrise condominium where many residents opposed building the facility for the dying.

RBC Economics is predicting that the softening of B.C.’s economy in late 2010 and early 2011 will be temporary and that the province’s economy will grow 2.6% this year.

Vancouver-based online contact lens seller Coastal Contacts Inc . is suing former employee Nelson Tin for allegedly misappropriating confidential information and using it to launch a competing venture named IseeIsee Optical .

The harmonized sales tax (HST) campaign is heating up with a war of words between supporters of the controversial tax and those who want to return to a system where there is a provincial sales tax (PST) and a goods and services tax (GST).

The world’s largest gathering of travel bloggers is coming to Vancouver for the Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre June 11 and 12.