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Commissioner deems government-owned ferry service has “unfair competitive advantage” over private sector

>Controversial $450 million casino proposal overshadowing major core building projects

John Hunter has joined the Certified Management Accountants Society of BC’s board as a lay representative. He is president and CEO of J. Hunter and Associates Ltd. and was previously vice-president, international, of Westcoast Energy Inc.

Rick Baxter, former president of floatplane operator West Coast Air Ltd., is suing the company for $400,000 in severance pay, less a 30% statutory withholding, according to a statement of claim filed in BC Supreme Court last week.

Insurance salesman and financial planner Peter William Arthur Wise has paid $15,000 to the BC Securities Commission (BCSC) and is prohibited, with some exceptions, from trading any securities for three years.

Four days after B.C.’s information privacy commissioner gave a cautious thumbs up to the security of the province’s online gambling portal, BC Lotteries Corp.

The City of Surrey capped a number of deals made by Surrey businesses and Indian organizations during a business mission to India with its own deal with a city in India on Saturday.

Approximately 450 local business leaders are gathering this evening for Once Upon A Grapevine, a gala to celebrate female entrepreneurs in the wine industry.

In a February 17 BC Supreme Court notice of civil claim, Vancouver-based gold exploration firm NovaGold Resources Inc. (TSX:NG) is seeking to clarify a written loan contract it had with its Alaska Gold Co.

B.C. posted its seventh straight month of gains in international overnight visitors, including a jump of 6.2% in people arriving from the U.S. Statistics Canada figures released on Thursday show a 6.6% increase of overnight visitors entering B.C.