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The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre announced Monday that it had received $25 million in combined federal and provincial grants to help pay for substantial upgrades to the 54-year-old facility.

Higher prices and increased production helped boost revenue and profit for Delta-headquartered Village Farms International Inc. (TSX:VFF) during the first six months of 2010. Revenue for the greenhouse vegetable grower rose 21% to $77.

Silver Bullet Shredding owner Bailey Jung has seen his business grow exponentially since 2005, when he drove business to business seeking used office paper to shred.

Vancouver’s Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) has closed the sale of its San Dimas gold-silver mine in Mexico to Toronto’s Primero Mining Corp. (TSX-V:P) for US$510 million. The acquisition transforms Primero , formerly Mala Noche Resources Corp.

The province’s largest independent run-of-river project has started selling power into the provincial grid after three years of construction. Vancouver’s Plutonic Power Corp.

The Keg Royalties Income Fund (TSX:KEG.UN) announced late last week that sales grew 3.1% to $111.2 million in the quarter ending June 30 but sales for the first half of 2010 declined 0.3% to $228.1 million compared with 2009.

Ontario-based building products giant Vicwest has consolidated its two Delta facilities and single Surrey plant into a new 91,400-square-foot Delta-based manufacturing facility with 50% more space than the company previously occupied.

B.C. is bucking the national trend of declining residential building permits, according to Statistics Canada data released August 5. The value of building permits in Canada nudged up 6.

Telus Corp. (TSX:T) reported a $296 million profit, a 21% increase year-over-year, in its second quarter largely due to reductions in capital expenditures and restructuring costs. While the Vancouver-based telco’s revenue increased 1% to $2.

Premium Brands Holdings Corp. (TSX:PBH) recently demonstrated how much its business is weather dependent when it announced its quarterly earnings August 5.