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Shareholders of Abbotsford-based Consolidated Envirowaste Industries Inc. (TSX-V:CWD) have approved a plan of arrangement to take the company private . Company chair and CEO James Darby and Doug Halward, Consolidated's president, offered $0.

The province has established a registry of care aids and community health workers aimed at protecting the public and providing basic standards of care for seniors. All care aids and health workers working at publicly-funded facilities in B.C.

Vancouver-based SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd. (TSX:SGQ) has raised nearly half a billion dollars from an international public equity offering that closed Friday.

Intrawest ULC announced Thursday it is selling its Panorama Mountain Village to a group of local investors for an undisclosed sum.

Strong global demand for commodities and favourable government policies should lead B.C.'s economy to be the second-fastest growing this year after Saskatchewan, according to a new report by CIBC World Markets.

While the vast majority of CEOs around the world are confident about their company's prospects over the next year, Canadian executives are among the most optimistic, according to PricewaterhouseCooper's annual global CEO survey.

Vancouver-headquartered Peer 1 Hosting Inc. (TSX:PIX) has opened a new US$40 million data centre in Toronto.

Investor interest in commodities as an asset class in their investment portfolios helped boost commodity prices in December, according to Scotiabank's monthly commodity price index.

Vancouver-based Western One Equity Income Fund (TSX:WEQ.UN) has signed a letter of intent to purchase the assets of a Calgary-based aerial and material-handling equipment business for $13.5 million.

A CIBC World Markets report is forecasting that operating profits of TSX-listed companies should rise for the first time since the third quarter of 2008, marking the end to the recession of public company earnings.