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Grief counsellors, stop-work orders and meetings with management help reveal corporate values

The federal government’s plan to reign in Canadians’ borrowing habits by tightening up mortgage regulations misses the mark, according to the Mortgage Brokers Association of B.C. (MBABC).

TD Bank Group was the only one of Canada’s five major banks to grow its business lending book between September 2008 and December 2009, the bank’s pacific region senior vice-president for commercial banking told Business in Vancouver .

Vancouver companies are increasingly placing corporate products in popular entertainment such as TV, movies and music videos, as marketing strategies become increasingly sophisticated. For example, viewers of Roman Polanski’s 2010 movie The Ghostwriter, which is now on DVD, will watch the lead character follow the Vancouver Canucks on TV in a hotel bar as play-by-play commentary mentions players such as Alex Edler, Henrik Sedin and Daniel Sedin.

Executives mull expense of creating proprietary applications for smartphones, paying third parties to make those apps or simply setting up mobile websites for their companies

No accounting for new auditing rules

Supply constraints are set to boost prospects for wood product producers, but the downturn has left the industry without the talent to meet the coming demand

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More questions than answers in China’s future economic strength

Canada's 11 largest cities, dubbed the C-11, have come together to launch a new bilingual website aimed at attracting new foreign direct investment and trade across the country.