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Richmond-headquartered CHC Helicopter Corp. (TSX:FLY; NYSE:FLI) has won two contracts worth $1.1 billion to provide helicopter services to Norway-based Statoil ASA.

Victoria-based Vecima Networks Inc. (TSX:VCM) will file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to de-register its shares in the U.S.

The company that produces the security paper for the Swiss franc and the Euro is going public. North Vancouver-headquartered Fortress Paper Ltd. has launched a $40 million IPO on the TSX offering five million shares at $8 a share.

Victoria-based Black Press Ltd. has launched a $400 million takeover pitch for Osprey Media. The bid tops Quebecor Media's May 31 offer of $355 million. Black Press has offered $8.

Ontario and B.C. credit unions have voted to merge their wholesale suppliers of financial services. Almost 99% of Ontario credit unions and more than 98% of B.C.

At least 70% of adults in Greater Vancouver prefer to buy B.C. grown produce, according to a new survey conducted by Mustel Group for Capers Community Markets.

B.C.-based egX Group Inc. (TSX-V:GFG), which is launching the first real estate stock exchange in the world, has filed with the Ontario Securities Commission to operate in Ontario.

A wall at Imperial Metals Corp.'s (TSX:III) Huckleberry copper and molybdenum mine has collapsed.

Climate change research at University of Victoria received a shot in the arm from Bob Wright, president and CEO of Oak Bay Marine Group of Companies, who has donated $11 million to the university.

Retail sales in B.C. reached $4.7 billion in April, an 8.1% year-over-year increase and the fifth consecutive month in which the province experienced boosted sales, according to Statistics Canada. The April sales total represents an 1.