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B.C.’s wine industry suffers from “a lack of organization, coordination and policy foresight,” according to a new report drafted by Simon Fraser University (SFU) researcher Anil Hira and graduate student Alexis Bwenge.

Vancouver is looking to become the first city in Canada to implement minimum nutritional standards for new street food vendors.

Lundin Mining Corporation (TSX: LUN; OMX:LUMI), a subsidiary of Vancouver-based The Lundin Group of Companies, and Inmet Mining Corp. (TSX: IMN) announced Wednesday a plan to merge and create Symterra Corp., a deal valued at approximately $9 billion.

Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) announced Thursday morning its subsidiary Zellers Inc. is selling up to 220 leasehold interests to Target Corp. (TGT-N) for $1.825 billion. The deal targets leases as Zellers Inc. does not own most of its locations.

Tourism Vancouver is altering its annual Dine Out Vancouver fixed-price restaurant promotion to cater more to tourists. The nine-year-old festival has historically aimed to get Vancouverites to eat at restaurants during what is normally slow season.

Vancouver companies are increasingly placing their products in popular entertainment such as TV, movies and music videos as marketing strategies become more sophisticated.

Last year Victoria brought in the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) and then stiffened penalties for those caught driving with a blood alcohol level above 0.05.

Canadian employment and output contracted at the fastest rate of any post-war recession during the recent 2008 to 2010 recession, according to a new study released Thursday morning by Statistics Canada.

Activists who oppose higher towers downtown are now getting some pushback from downtown merchants who want to see taller towers.

B.C. is poised to slightly outperform the national average in GDP growth for 2011, according to a report released Wednesday by BMO Capital Markets Economics Department. “We’re expecting B.C.