Economy, Law & Politics

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

A father and son in the business of exploring and developing mineral claims are suing the B.C. government for allegedly expropriating some of their claims to establish two parks, while leaving the pair’s most valuable claims untouched but inaccessible and therefore worthless after the expropriation.

Sub-provincial population estimates are out for 2013, and weak growth was the norm for most areas of B.C., with gains largely concentrated in larger metro areas.

The province’s forestry and seafood sectors could tap huge new Asian market

Round two is coming up in the ongoing issue over how much Coast Capital Savings board members deserve in compensation.

Cedar Party mayoral candidate Glen Chernen is persisting with a petition that aims to have Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson turfed from office for allegedly providing an undue benefit to social media venture Hootsuite because that company provided what Chernen believes was "unspecified gifts" during the 2011 civic election campaign.

Although Canada weathered the recent financial crisis relatively well compared with other countries such as the United States, another similar crisis could seriously damage the country’s financial institutions and economy as a whole.

Public-private partnerships, or P3s, generated over $51 billion for the Canadian economy between 2003 and 2012, according to a Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP) study released March 13.

Businesses in British Columbia have a higher rate of job openings per capita than the national average, according to a Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) report released March 12.

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