Economy, Law & Politics

Companies that created an advisory board saw their sales grow almost three times faster in the following three years than in the previous three years

Provincial government discusses out-of-court settlement

Critics charge that city hall staff now wield too much power in tendering process

Dollar-volume shipments held near their highest levels since 2007 at $3.58 billion (seasonally adjusted) and were up 10% from the same month in 2013

Complacency when it comes to company fraud can be costly

The City of Vancouver will transform a former police station in the heart of the city’s Downtown Eastside into a workspace for technology companies and social enterprise businesses and organizations

The City of Vancouver filed a notice of civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court Friday (October 3) in a direct constitutional challenge to Canadian Pacific’s actions to clear its property along Arbutus Corridor.

The business news that caught my eye this week was largely about banks.

Amid surging imports and plummeting exports, Canada registered a $610-million trade deficit in August. This comes after the country posted a $2.6-billion trade surplus in July, according to Statistics Canada data released October 3.

Roberto Luongo was paid $55,000 during his final season with the Vancouver Canucks to endorse B.C. Lottery Corporation’s (BCLC) online poker, according to documents released this week.