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Vancouver copper producer First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM) hopes to raise $300.6 million in a public offering of shares to strengthen its capital position and pay for its capital projects. The company plans to sell 8.

Two principal shareholders of Burnaby-based Taiga Building Products Ltd. (TSX:TBL) have withdrawn their support of the company's latest rights offering due to low participation from the public markets.

Vancouver's Magellan Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V:MNM) plans to merge with Cranbrook-based Chapleau Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:CHI) in an all-share deal that would create a combined gold exploration and development company focused in northern Brazil.

British Columbians came out spending in January, giving B.C. one of the highest increases in retail sales out of any province in the country, according to the latest Statistics Canada report. Total retail spending rose 3.1% to $4.

The recession hasn't slowed the need for women to buy shoes. Vancouver's Sterling Shoes Income Fund (TSX:SSI.

Vancouver's office market has experienced one of the fastest increases in vacancy rates in Canada as challenging economic conditions coupled with access to capital constraints forced companies to reduce their office space needs, according to CB Richa

Net income for Central 1 Credit Union, Canada's first inter-provincial central credit union, rose 22% in 2008 in the midst of a global financial crisis. The wholesale supplier of liquidity for credit unions in B.C.

Victoria has given Kwoiek Creek Resources LP its environmental assessment certificate for a $150 million run-of-river project located 29 kilometres north of Boston Bar.

A new Accountemps survey has found that most hiring managers are becoming more comfortable with discussing salary early in the hiring process.

Uneducated men in their 30s and 40s are among the most likely people to commit fraud, according to a new KPMG study.