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Four new tugboats to handle port's growing tanker traffic

A new set of state-of-the-art tugboats will ply the waters of Burrard Inlet next year, Seaspan International Ltd. announced Tuesday.

Commonwealth Games controversy unlikely to stunt investment in India

Bad publicity surrounding the poor conditions of many of the facilities for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi is unlikely to dent trade and investment in India, former Indian president A.P.J.

Proposed Hornby Street bike lane closer to reality

Vancouver city council is expected to vote October 5 to make a pilot project for a two-way separated bike lane on the east side of Hornby Street a reality.

FDA fast tracks local biotech

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has fast-tracked the status for a Vancouver biotech company’s drug that could treat a rare and deadly parasitic disease. iCo Therapeutics Inc.

B.C. sex workers encouraged by Ontario decision to strike down prostitution law

B.C. legal advocates are encouraged by an Ontario judge's September 28 ruling that has stuck down a federal law forbidding living off the avails of prostitution as unconstitutional.

Fortress Paper CEO named Pacific entrepreneur of the year

He’s only 38 years old, but Ernst & Young has named Chad Wasilenkoff as its entrepreneur of the year for the Pacific region. The head of North Vancouver’s Fortress Paper Ltd.

Angel Forum seeking investors and entrepreneurs

Organizers of Vancouver’s Angel Forum are giving entrepreneurs until September 30 to apply to be part of its October 19 forum. The group has been hosting forums linking investors and entrepreneurs for 13 years.

Port ponders becoming power producer in electrification plan

Natural gas could be used to supply electricity to container ships

Biotech industry lobbying federal government for investor tax breaks

BIOTECanada argues that, similar to junior miners, Canada’s junior biotechnology companies need major investments of time and capital in order to become profitable

Business owners blast Ottawa’s plans to hike payroll taxes again

CFIB proposes solutions that would make payroll tax hike unnecessary and avoid what business says would further hamper economic recovery