Economy, Law & Politics

The province is selling off another pair of surplus properties, including a massive swath of land at Willingdon Avenue and Canada Way in Burnaby.

The British Columbia Ministry of International Trade has signed a joint trade relationship statement with the United Kingdom Trade and Investment Organization, the provincial government announced March 26.

Yesterday’s arbitration panel ruling that random drug and alcohol testing by Suncor Energy Inc. would be unreasonable sends a clear signal -- and is consistent with previous, similar rulings -- that employers face a difficult hurdle if they want to impose such testing on their workplaces, says a law professor.

At first glance, the spending scandal at Vancouver's main social service agency is incomprehensible. How could so many do-gooders who have been devoted to helping unfortunates for so long run so far out of bounds when it comes to spending money on themselves?

British Columbia is not ready for a major earthquake and the provincial government has not made preparing for one a priority, the province's auditor general reported March 25.

A group of former Blenz Coffee franchisees is suing the coffee company Black Tusk Trading Co. and company directors Sarah Kate Moen, Brian Noble, Geoffrey Hair and real estate agent Matthew Moadebi for allegedly conspiring to frustrate their attempts to renew leases and sell the businesses.

The following is a list of stock trades made by corporate executives, directors and other company insiders of B.C.’s public companies filed the week ending March 19. The information comes from a compilation of required reports filed with the BC Securities Commission obtained from DisclosureNet.com.

West Coast businesses may need a little extra help keeping out of the crosshairs of conmen.

Hot off the press is the latest batch of not-so-hot B.C. employment numbers from Statistics Canada. The data for February generally show the provincial economy moving in the right direction, albeit at a relatively slow pace.

MNP executive Mackenzie Kyle worked in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong before settling in Vancouver in 1996