Economy, Law & Politics

The C.D. Howe Institute has given the City of Surrey an ‘A’ in budget reporting, according to Holding Canada’s Cities to Account: An Assessment of Municipal Fiscal Management.

A Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) study released today estimates previously undisclosed support for Canadian banks reached $114 billion during the financial crisis.

Although 67% of all of Canada’s merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2012’s first quarter was in Western Canada, B.C. is experiencing more moderate activity, according to a PwC report released Thursday.

A Canadian family earning an average income spends more money each year on taxes than on food, shelter and clothing, according to a Fraser Institute report released this morning.

The Memorial Society of British Columbia has filed suit against funeral service provider Service Corporation International Canada ULC (SCI), alleging that it hasn’t been paid its cut of funeral service fees under a contract.

The province is touting Bill 35, which was introduced before the legislature yesterday, as a way to regulate and lower prescription drug prices.

Infrastructure projects and Asian market remain key to maintaining the province's slow but sustainable economic growth

Vancouver councillor George Affleck has raised concerns with the mechanism Vancouver Council has used to fund its just-announced Greenest City Fund.

The following is a list of the largest stock trades made by corporate executives, directors and other company insiders of B.C.’s public companies filed by the week ending April 5. The information comes from a compilation of required reports filed with the BC Securities Commission.

Government has failed to change the Crown corporation’s accounting practices six months after being chastised in an AG report