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Vancouver-based Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust (PIRET) announced today its acquisition of $132.5 million of income producing properties in Alberta, Ontario and Manitoba.

Ballard Power Systems (TSX: BLD) announced yesterday an agreement to build a one-megawatt fuel cell generator that will generate heat and electricity at the Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc . sales and marketing headquarters in Torrance, California.

In a labour negotiation that has avoided the kind of strikes seen at the company’s Elkview and Coal Mountain mines in recent months, Teck Resources Ltd . (TSX:TCK.A, TCK.

Simon Fraser University’s economic impact in the Lower Mainland is worth more than $3.65 billion a year, a recent report estimates.

Mobio Identity Systems announced today its exclusive partnership with Toronto-based Shaw Media to be Mobio's first and only Canadian broadcast sales representative. Mobio is an international mobile payment and marketing company.

Fifty-nine Vancouver women have been honoured with nominations for the YWCA Vancouver Women of Distinction Awards.

The City of Vancouver has posted detailed budgets and expenses for Mayor Gregor Robertson and his council online. Previously, accessing the expense records required filing Freedom of Information requests.

B.C.’s real GDP rose 3.8% in 2010, outpacing a national rise of 3.3%, Statistics Canada announced this morning. B.C.’s growth follows the province’s decline of 1.8% in 2009.

North Vancouver-based agricultural technology company TerraBioGen Technologies Inc . has filed a patent application for a plant growth promoter that its scientists have found to increase crop yield.

Richmond-based Catalyst Paper (TSX:CTL) posted a net loss of $12.9 million on sales of $303.6 million in 2011's first quarter. In 2010’s last quarter, Catalyst recorded net earnings of $9.6 million on sales of $333.6 million.