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Nearly half of B.C.’s TD Canada Trust branches will be open seven days a week starting this February as a result of customer demand. In an interview, Kerry Peacock , TD ’s executive vice-president of branch banking said 65 of B.C.

Vancouver’s business community has been a major supporter of We Day, one of the largest youth leadership gatherings in Canada, for the second year in row. The event launches a full year of activities by school groups across the country.

Legendary musician Phil Collins will perform a cross-Canada concert later this month as a one-night only affair thanks to Cineplex Entertainment theatres.

Some B.C. wine makers have had to sacrifice clusters of grapes by picking them early so remaining ones ripen faster. The moves come during a year that will be remembered for some of the worst winemaking weather in decades.

Two Amtrak trains will continue running daily between Vancouver and Portland thanks to Ottawa’s October 14 announcement that the federal government will pick up the daily $1,500 cost for customs agents for another year.

B.C. manufacturing sales bucked the national trend in August by falling 0.1%, according to Statistics Canada data released Friday. Sales fell to $2.975 billion, down from $2.979 in July, compared with a 2% increase nationally to $45.

Dating companies such as Divine Intervention, It’s Just Lunch and Executive Search Dating have all been growing during the past few years and all notice business starts improving in October. “There’s definitely a change after the Labour Day weekend.

RCMP investigators are cracking down on alleged brothels in Metro Vancouver in the wake of an Ontario judge’s controversial September 28 ruling striking down a federal law forbidding living off the avails of prostitution in that province, according t

The world is on the brink of a new world order for global currency markets, according to a report by Victoria-based Custom House.

Recession? What recession? That’s the feeling from a majority of small businesses in Canada, according to an RBC poll released Thursday morning.