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Vancouver’s Canfor Corp. (TSX:CFP) announced it has signed a deal to sell the assets of Howe Sound Pulp and Paper LP to Holland-based Paper Excellence BV.

Residents in B.C. and Ontario are among the least likely to miss paying a bill, according to a TD Canada Trust banking survey released Thursday. Just more than half of respondents in B.C.

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp.’s (TSX:TKM) share value jumped in midday trading Friday on news the company has signed a contract with the U.S. government for the treatment of the deadly Ebola virus. The contract could be worth up to US$140 million.

The union representing pulp and paper workers is honing its sales skills as it searches for companies to invest in shuttered B.C. mills and put its people back to work. At the top of the list is West Fraser Timber Ltd.

Metro Vancouver parking rates have shot up 19% in the past year according to a report by Colliers International. Vancouver’s median monthly parking rate rose to $266.

Local seedling producer CellFor Inc. has raised US$35 million to expand production capacity and meet growing sales volumes, the company announced Thursday.

Industrial real estate leasing opportunities abound in Metro Vancouver after vacancy rates for "quality properties" climbed to 4.5% in 2009.

A month after a brushfire temporarily shuttered Capstone Mining Corp.’s (TSX:CS) Minto copper mine, the company has located a new high grade copper-gold discovery and nicknamed it "Wildfire.

Canadian Visa cardholders were the seventh top spenders in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup, according to data from Visa Inc. Canadians spent US$8.

Thompson Creek Metals Co. Inc. (TSX:TCM) has agreed to buy Terrane Metals Corp. (TSX-V:TRX) for $650 million in one of the biggest transactions in Vancouver’s mining scene so far this year.