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Business appears to be benefiting from four temporary emergency homeless shelters that opened in November and early December in Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano, Downtown South and the West End.

Montreal-based smoked meat franchise Dunn’s Famous Montreal Smoked Meat plans to open its first location outside Quebec in Vancouver at the corner of Robson and Seymour streets in May.

Cariboo Pulp and Paper Co.’s mill in Quesnel and Canfor Pulp's Northwood mill in Prince George are the latest pulp mills in B.C. to be earmarked for federal government money to reduce their environmental footprint.

Genome BC has sourced the local life sciences community to recruit a new chief scientific officer (CSO) three months after its previous CSO headed to Ottawa to take on a lead role with a national genomics research organization.

When marijuana activist Tommy Chong released a YouTube video earlier this week saying he had joined the BC NDP, some wondered just how easy it is to join a B.C. political party.

Transit activists are unimpressed with Wednesday’s announcement that the federal and provincial governments are teaming up to finance an under-construction bus lane in Surrey. “They’re building another lane [adjoining the highway].

BC Hydro's Bridge River assets, which include three dams, three reservoirs, four generating stations and 15 transmission circuits that total 850 kilometres of transmission lines, are located entirely within the St'át'imc asserted traditional territor

BC Liberal leadership candidate George Abbott is rejecting NDP calls for Victoria to break apart the newly created Ministry of Natural Resource Operations. “The adjustment of those ministries is well under way,” Abbott told Business in Vancouver .

The shares of Vancouver’s Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX:ANP; Nasdaq:ANPI) are being permanently de-listed from the Nasdaq after those shares spent the last 210 days trading below the exchange’s $1.00 minimum price requirement.

A new Vancouver-based media producer that closed a qualifying transaction on Tuesday in order to begin trading on the TSX Venture Exchange has announced its first project – a series of six mixed martial arts-inspired DVD workouts starring mixed marti