Economy, Law & Politics

The Vancouver Aquarium has launched a legal challenge in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in an effort to overturn a recent Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation bylaw amendment that bans new cetaceans, including whales, dolphins and porpoises

Carbon tax hike accounts for biggest share of NDP tax hikes

Canadian CEOs are more optimistic about their company’s growth over the next 12 months than are CEOs from other countries around the world, reveals a KPMG survey.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark, who has recalled the legislature for June 22, has promised to lay out an ambitious agenda in a throne speech this month despite the likelihood it will trigger the defeat of her Liberal government.

Shutting down Site C would strand billions in sunk costs that ratepayers will still have to pay for: taxpayers federation

Oil and gas analyst says musings about cutting off oil supply to B.C. are already gaining traction in Alberta

The following is a list of stock trades made by corporate executives, directors and other company insiders of B.C.’s public companies filed in the week ended June 7, 2017. The information comes from a compilation of required reports filed with the BC Securities Commission obtained from DisclosureNet.com.

Support for training, education a priority, but funding details absent

B.C. dollar-volume exports remained robust through April on surging non-renewable resource sales. Total merchandise exports to global markets reached $3.85 billion, marking a same-month gain of 34.

Last Friday (June 9) was Tax Freedom Day, marking the day the average Canadian family has made enough income to pay all its taxes for this year, according to the Fraser Institute.