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A leading Lower Mainland aerospace company said Monday that production work for one of its key clients is heading out the door. In a release, Avcorp Industries Inc. (TSX:AVP) said production work for Cessna Aircraft Co.

Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) plans to raise US$1.2 billion in a strategic rights offering in connection with its recent arrangement with Rio Tinto.

The clock is ticking for small business owners looking to take advantage of year-end tax savings.

Despite the hubbub of aboriginal voices across the country that openly opposed Taseko Mines’ (TSX:TKO) Prosperity project, the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) took a different approach.

Vancouver-based Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust (TSX-V:AAR.UN) has closed $10 million in industrial property sales.

Gold prices dropped $3.30 to $1,367.70 in midday trades Friday, but producers of the precious metal believe a new rush will begin in 2011.

The uranium business heated up again Friday after Fronteer Gold Inc. (TSX:FRG) agreed to sell its Labrador projects for $261 million.

Terasen Gas customers will now have an option to heat their homes with something other than natural gas. The BC Utilities Commission approved Terasen Gas ’s proposal to provide a new renewable natural gas program for an initial two-year period.

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North Vancouver’s Washington Marine Group (WMG) has plans to pump out more ships to ply Burrard Inlet. On Thursday, the company, which owns Seaspan International Ltd. and Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. , announced two new construction contracts.