Economy, Law & Politics

The executive director of the BC Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a notice of hearing alleging that Jeffrey Karl Wiegel and Michael Jerome Knight, both from B.C.

Canada is among the top five most economically free countries in the world, well ahead of the U.S., which has fallen to 18th overall, according to the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World: 2012 Annual Report .

The B.C. government plans to cut spending to balance the 2013-14 budget and keep the 2012-13 budget deficit to $1.14 billion, Finance Minister Mike de Jong said September 13.

Businesses need to adapt their systems for the elimination of the harmonized sales tax (HST) and the return the provincial sales tax (PST) on April 1, 2013, Finance Minister Mike de Jong confirmed September 13.

The ability of MLAs to do their jobs will be “severely impaired” if the government blocks Auditor General John Doyle from examining the deal that paid $6 million in legal bills for two government aides who pleaded guilty to corruption, ex

The B.C. government said yesterday that it is now leading the country in job creation. The government said it has delivered on eight of 19 of its Jobs Plan commitments to date and stated that Statistics Canada’s most recent numbers show B.C.

Exel executive denies lobbying officials since government’s release of liquor privatization RFP

The $1.4 billion Evergreen Line and the $8 billion Seaspan federal shipbuilding contract drove an increase in “proposed, underway, completed or on hold” capital investment in Southwest B.C. last year, according to a new report.

Many questions remain about the stadium, however. Only one post-renovation event, the 2011 Grey Cup, was a sellout

Retailing has never been easy, and the numbers suggest it’s going to get increasingly difficult for B.C. retailers.