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Non-Partisan Association (NPA) mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton believes more exemptions should be made to building height restrictions in the city’s long-standing view corridor policy.

British Columbia Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair has adopted some of the rhetoric that American Democrats are using south of the border.

Exports of logs and lumber from the U.S. and Canada to China are on pace to reach a record US$2.6 billion in 2011, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.

Average prices for detached homes in Vancouver rose to $1,022,375 –triple the national average – in 2011’s third quarter, according to a Royal LePage House Price Survey released October 4.

Robert Little , founder and CEO of Regency Fireplace Products , received this year’s Pacific Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Regency, headquartered in Delta, designs, manufactures and markets hearth products.

The Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association has received an award of excellence from the International Downtown Association for its response to the 2011 Stanley Cup riot, including the Vanlover campaign.

After falling sharply in August, small business confidence in Canada gained a point in September, with an index of 62.7, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business ’ (CFIB) business barometer.

MP Russ Hiebert ’s private member’s bill to amend the Income Tax Act to enhance labour union financial disclosure has unleashed an outcry from union heads and accolades from free enterprise supporters.

Metro Vancouver real estate has been a much better investment than the stock market during the past year, though statistics released October 4 hint home prices may soon follow stocks’ downward trend.

Seven mayors across Metro Vancouver announced their support yesterday of Translink ’s Moving Forward funding supplement, which calls for a two-cents per litre gas tax increase to fund the Evergreen Line, among other things.