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Entrepreneurs and small business owners have just over one week, until December 15, to snag a nomination for a Small Business BC Successful You award. The contest recognizes and celebrates the important contributions B.C.

Olympic Village marketer Bob Rennie has confirmed as many as 100 of the 474 unsold condos at Millennium Water may be rented at market rates to fill the development as soon as possible.

Relations between Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX:TKO) and B.C. First Nations hit rock bottom this year during the federal environmental review process for the company’s Prosperity project.

Billionaire Carl Icahn has launched a website he says is intended to “save” Vancouver-based Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE:LGF).

Terasen natural gas refueling stations may soon service buses and garbage trucks around B.C.

Two separate construction accidents involving Ledcor employees – one fatal – shook the construction industry Thursday, but the overall injury rate in B.C. has been on the decline in recent years.

BC Hydro is proposing a 10% electricity rate hike in each of the next three years in order to fund what it says is the largest expansion of electrical infrastructure in B.C.’s history.

Vancouver-based coal miner Western Coal Corp. (TSX:WTN; AIM:WTN) is being acquired by Tampa’s Walter Energy (NYSE:WLT) for $3.3 billion.

Virginia Greene, a veteran of both B.C.’s private and public sectors, died from ovarian cancer on Thursday. She was 66. Greene had stepped down as president and CEO of the BC Business Council last July.

The board of directors of Ventana Gold Corp. (TSX: VEN) has adopted a temporary poison pill strategy to block a takeover attempt by Brazilian firm EBX Group.