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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA) said in a release Thursday night that it had anticipated for many months that the United Kingdom government would suspend the use of Home Information Packs (HIPs). In the U.K.

The B.C. government launched a new website Thursday where oil and gas companies in the Fort Nelson district can auction off timber that’s harvested as part of their development operations.

The province is expected to receive $1 million in new cancer research funding with a new agreement it has signed with a Japanese pharmaceutical firm. The B.C. Cancer Agency and the Vancouver Prostate Centre will work with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.

According to an Export Development Canada forecast, rising prices of B.C.’s key resource exports will lead to double-digit export growth in the province.

A Richmond-based manufacturer of cyclotrons that produce medical isotopes announced Wednesday that it has sold cyclotrons to the University of Alberta ’s department of oncology in Edmonton and Quebec’s Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke .

The results are in and Vancouver’s first Carrotmob was a success. The Carrotmob movement is a new type of ad-hoc community activism in which businesses in a local area compete at how socially or environmentally responsible they can be.

B.C. was among a handful of provinces reporting year-over-year declines in the number of people receiving employment insurance, according to Statistics Canada data released Thursday.

Even though B.C. has one of the country’s strongest economies, the number of new housing starts in the province is expected to remain below B.C.

A poll commissioned by Telus Corp. (TSX:T; NYSE:TU) has found that 89% of Canadian employees think that offering a flexible work program makes a company more attractive.

The B.C. Discovery Fund , which invests venture capital in B.C.’s emerging technology businesses, has reported an increase in share value after the successful completion of financing for one of its portfolio companies.