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Burnaby-based Weatherhaven , a maker of portable shelters, camps and systems for remote sites, has signed a long-term agreement to provide Brazilian oil and gas company HRT Participaceos em Petroleo SA with exploration camps in the Amazon.

The federal government plans to stop inspecting B.C. meat packing plants, shifting the work to the provincial government and, according to the Agriculture Union-PSAC, putting consumers potentially at a higher risk of consuming E. coli, listeria, salmonella and other hazardous contaminants.

High-end liquor and expensive wine sales have recently dropped along with North American stock markets, according to Liberty Wine Merchants general manager Robert Simpson.

The BC First Nations Leadership Council announced a strategy to develop stronger relations with China and respond to increasing interest from executives at Chinese companies that want to do business in British Columbia’s natural resources sector.

Canada’s overly complex tax system needs to be simplified, according to the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA-Canada).

White Spot Ltd . is expanding its Triple O’s brand in the next month to Langara College , the University of British Columbia (UBC) and British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).

As a popular Canadian destination for Brazilian tourists, Vancouver is poised to gain tourism dollars from a Canada-Brazil air transport agreement signed this week, according to the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC).

The federal government has announced more than $1.2 million in funding for youth employment projects at three Lower Mainland organizations.

Social networking, anyone? Site for tennis players seeking cohorts and competitors has high hopes

After divesting the commercial and industrial side of its business in 2005 to focus on aerospace, Burnaby’s International Water-Guard is now looking to grow in the market it knows best: internal airplane technology