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Smartcool Systems Inc. (TSX-V:SSC) plans to acquire the business and assets of U.K.-based TECC Services Ltd.

People with university degrees and higher income individuals share many characteristics, but drinking bottled water at home is not one of them.

Real estate agents will need to know their clients a bit more with new regulations coming into effect today.

Vancouver-headquartered Telus Corp. (TSX:T) has added three new services to its global positioning system (GPS) business.

Burnaby headquartered Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX:XTX) has signed a US$1.4 million contract to provide power subsystems for two unnamed U.S. aerospace companies.

Vancouver's Skye Resources inc. (TSX:SKR) plans to merge with Toronto's HudBay Minerals Inc. (TSX:HBM) in an all-share deal worth approximately $460.3 million. Skye shareholders will receive 0.

Duncan-based Western Forest Products Inc. (TSX:WEF) is slashing more than half of its timber harvesting operations for July and August due to continued weakness of the U.S. and Japanese markets.

B.C. firms occupied a third of this year's list of the TSX Venture 50 produced by the TMX Group, operator of the TSX and TSX Venture exchanges.

Vancouver's Western Canadian Coal Corp. (TSX:WTN) suffered a heavy net loss for its fiscal year ending March 31, 2008, due to higher production costs and lower coal prices.

The shareholders of Metallica Resources Inc. (TSX:MR), New Gold Inc. (TSX:NGD) and Peak Gold Ltd. (TSX-V:PIK) have approved the US$1.6 billion merger of the three companies.