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An enriched offer for North Vancouver’s Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE:LGF) has boosted the film company’s share price by 10%. Activist investor Carl Icahn increased his hostile takeover bid for Lions Gate to US$7.50 per share, up from US$6.

Forget flashy brand building to attract customers just make sure your company delivers on its core business and keeps its promises.

The federal government has targeted gas tanks in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The chance of a U.S.-style housing market collapse is highly unlikely given stricter lending standards in Canada, according to a C.D. Howe Institute paper released Tuesday.

The land may be known as the Rogue district, but Golden Predator Corp. (TSX:GPD) is no lone soldier in the Yukon gold rush.

B.C. women are being encouraged to take on business leadership roles with new funding from the federal government. Rona Ambrose , minister for status of women, said Monday that the Vancouver-based Minerva Foundation for B.C.

The growth of Canada’s economy may have slowed in the second quarter but it is still better than the U.S., according to Statistics Canada.

British Columbians did not splurge in restaurants and bars during the last month before the HST came into affect, according to Statistics Canada data released Monday. Food service and drinking establishment sales fell 0.3% in June to $653.

B.C.’s first new metal mine in more than a decade is expected to resume production after being shutdown last week. Vancouver-based Roca Mines Inc.

Vancouver’s infamous real estate market is a bubble that could be ready to burst, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).