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Today is Cyber Monday, the busiest online shopping day of the year, and Canadian businesses are gearing up for a steady stream of consumers looking to make a dent in their holiday shopping.

B.C.’s liquor laws are deterring U.S. restaurant and grocery chains from expanding north, leasing agents say. “It’s very hard to get any restaurant chains, except the ones that have a low beverage component to their sales, interested in B.C.

Christine Day , Lululemon Athletica ’s CEO, was named Canada’s Marketer of the Year by the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA).

The B.C. government last week passed amendments to strengthen the Agricultural Land Commission, which manages and protects B.C. farmland.

Canadian mining companies are having to rethink their strategies due to social, economic and political forces, according to a Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd . report released today.

Several Calvin Klein-branded underwear stores exist in the Lower Mainland and there could soon be a full store by the New York-based fashion giant.

While still far and away the priciest housing market in Canada, Vancouver became slightly more affordable in the third quarter, according to a report released this morning by RBC Economics .

New Non-Partisan Association (NPA) councillor George Affleck plans to use his council seat to push for improving Vancouver’s business attractiveness, he recently told Business in Vancouver .

Canadian retailers should not offer steep discounts today simply because it is Black Friday in the U.S., according to Mark Startup , who is CEO of the B.C. retail lobby group Shelfspace .

Wages in B.C. rose 1.7% in September compared with the same month a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada data released November 24. In the rest of Canada, the jump was only 1.1%, according to the nation’s number cruncher.