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The City of Vancouver ’s unexplained firing of planning director Brent Toderian is likely to weigh on the minds of future city planners February 2-4 when Simon Fraser University hosts the 2012 Canadian Association of Planning Students conference.

The Globe Foundation is heading an industry group that landed $216,720 in B.C. government funding on January 31 to examine the labour market needs and job potential of B.C.’s so-called “clean economy” sector.

Optimism among Canadian small- and medium-size businesses continues to improve, but at a reserved pace according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).

Catalyst Paper Corp. (TSX:CTL) will file for creditor protection, the company announced this morning.

B.C. cancer research specialists are part of a team that will receive nearly $10 million to develop tests to better identify and treat brain cancer in children. The $9.

The Port of Prince Rupert had a banner year in 2011 with record exports of forest, coal and grain products to China, Japan and Korea.

Canada’s national women’s soccer team is going to the London 2012 Olympics, but the British Columbia government is not. Business in Vancouver has learned that there will be no B.C.

Canadian businesses feel less pressure to innovate than their global competitors and thus fall behind on this metric, according to a report released this morning by the Conference Board of Canada .

Rio Tinto Alcan (NYSE:RIO) will hand back 11,000 acres of land expropriated from the Cheslatta Carrier Nation in B.C.’s Northern Interior in the early 1950s.

The City of Vancouver has failed to offer a reason for firing its planning director Brent Toderian in a formal statement Tuesday.