Economy, Law & Politics

The state of the union address, income inequality and bank rate cuts made interesting news this past week

Plunging gas prices helped push Canada’s annual inflation rate down to 1.5% in December compared with 2% the previous month.

It is no surprise that households in British Columbia spend the biggest percentage of their average total spending on shelter in Canada, but...

An ex-notary public has been fined $33 million for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors of at least $100 million.

For the first time in over four years, Canada’s central bank is changing its overnight rate target

The government of Canada has turned to a rarely-used piece of legislation in an attempt to put political pressure on the United States

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 January 14. The information comes from a compilation of required reports filed with the BC Securities Commission obtained from DisclosureNet.com.

As an organizer for the yes campaign for the upcoming Metro Vancouver Congestion Improvement Tax plebiscite, I was happily surprised by last year’s near-unanimous consensus on the Mayors’ Council Vision for Regional Transportation.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Federation of Labour, and Niels Veldhuis, president of the Fraser Institute, go head to head

In particular, exports of energy products fell 16%, or $100 million, while metal and non-metallic mineral products exports declined by 25% or $62 million from October