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Television personality and producer Terry David Mulligan says he’s willing to go to jail to draw attention to what he considers an archaic federal law that needs to be scrapped.

BC Hydro will be under a new level of government scrutiny this year as the province conducts a full investigation into the publicly owned utility. On Thursday, B.C.

The value of building permits issued in metropolitan Vancouver in February was up 1% to $382 million compared with January, according to Statistics Canada. That compares with a total increase of 14% to $4.

Canada’s electricity sector needs $293.8 billion in investment over the next 20 years to replace aging infrastructure, the Conference Board of Canada said Thursday.

More than half of young Canadians believe it makes sense to put their real estate plans on hold until next year, according to a Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) home ownership study published Thursday.

The CEO of Vancouver startup HootSuite told Business in Vancouver April 6 that he had acquired Minnesota’s TwitterBar for an undisclosed amount.

Walt Disney Co.’s Disney Cruise Line division is moving most of its Alaska-bound cruises from Vancouver to Seattle next year.

The Vancouver Board of Trade honoured H.Y. Louie Co. Ltd. chairman Brandt Louie with its Rix Award for engaged community citizenship and Vancity with the Rix Award for engaged corporate citizenship at a sold-out Governors’ Banquet April 5.

Comparatively little competition in the vodka cooler sector has spurred the Aquilini Group to start producing a drink branded Bassano Hard Soda – a move inspired by low-carbonation, less-sweet sodas favoured by Italians during the prohibition era.

Small business owners in B.C. rank among the most optimistic entrepreneurs in the country. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business said Wednesday that businesses in Canada maintained an upbeat mood in March.