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Vancouver-based Lignol Energy Corp. (TSX-V: LEC) has developed a renewable resin adhesive that can be used to make oriented strand board – a composite wood board material used throughout the North American construction industry.

City of Vancouver number crunching reveals that it will absorb an estimated $40 to $50 million shortfall, if former Olympic Village units sell as expected and construction loans are paid.

Canada’s helicopter industry, including Richmond-based Helijet International (TSX:HJI), has seen the recession’s impacts subside over the past six months to a year, Helijet president and CEO Danny Sitnam told Business in Vancouver (BIV) in a recent i

Two Canadian pension funds have entered a definitive agreement to acquire Vancouver-based TimberWest Forest Corp. (TSX: TWF.UN) for $1.03 billion. TimberWest announced this morning that BC Investment Management Corp .

Venerable B.C. department store Army & Navy has opened its first express store mere blocks from its 100,000-square-foot Cordova Street store.

Vancouver’s Pivot Legal Society has the chance to win recognition for marginalized people at the Supreme Court of Canada but its lawyers would much rather be fighting Canada’s prostitution laws in a B.C. courtroom.

The number of new houses being built in B.C. was down last month compared with March 2010, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) said Friday. The organization recorded 1,436 housing starts across B.C.

The Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) has signed an agreement for a major mixed-use development on its land. On Friday, the TFN Economic Development Corp .

Long time Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc. shareholders are left with nothing now that British Columbia Supreme Court has sanctioned the troubled biotechnology company’s creditor-approved refinancing plan.

Metro Vancouver’s board is expected this morning (April 8) to seek binding arbitration to make its controversial regional growth strategy (RGS) the official plan for the region.