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Canada’s law firms are increasingly looking to bonuses and pay raises to retain top-level talent, according to a Robert Half Legal survey.

Successful companies use social media effectively by hiring people to engage in digital conversations with customers, and not by simply trying to push promotional material and sell products, Starbucks Corp.

Cool, rainy weather has hurt sales at many Metro Vancouver retailers, but those who have stores across the country say sales are lagging far more in the Prairies.

Vancity has proposed a pilot project to offer loans of between $4,000 and $10,000 for energy-efficient retrofits for single-family homes in Vancouver. The loans are structured to pay for themselves through cost savings achieved by reduced energy use.

Minneapolis-based discount giant Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT) announced May 26 that it would convert five Metro Vancouver Zellers stores into Target-branded locations.

Spending by Canadians travelling in the United States reached a new high of $5 billion in the first quarter of this year, Statistics Canada announced today.

For local recruiters, finding the right person for the job goes well beyond job qualifications. “Recruiting is like matchmaking,” Odgers Berndtson Vancouver managing partner Ken Werker told Business in Vancouver in a recent interview.

Las Vegas-based casino owner and operator Pinnacle Entertainment Inc . (NYSE: PNK) is investing $95 million in Vancouver-based resort developer Asian Coast Development (Canada) Ltd .

Fewer British Columbians have home Internet connections than they did last year, but the province has a higher proportion of households that have Internet connections than does any other province.

Average weekly earnings in B.C. edged up 0.2% in March to $840.72, for a 3.5% year over year increase, according to a report released this morning by Statistics Canada . B.C.’s earnings growth, however, failed to keep pace with national averages.