Economy, Law & Politics

The B.C. government paid $1.427m of its $5.7m BC Jobs Plan provincial advertising budget to Cossette Communications for the campaign’s creative work, with the media buy costing the remaining $3.

A class action suit has been launched in the BC Supreme Court over an alleged Ponzi scheme which, court documents allege, claimed an affiliation with beverage distributor Mark Anthony Group to dupe investors into buying into the scheme.

Vision Vancouver spent $2,218,040 of the $2,227,402 that it raised to run its victorious 2011 civic election campaign, the party announced March 15.

Vancouver Board of Trade employees are starting to register as lobbyists in B.C. Last month’s edition of Who’s Lobbying Who , published by the Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists of B.C.

A local MLA is welcoming the province's recent introduction of a bill to create a new social finance structure: the community contribution company. Gordon Hogg , MLA for Surrey-White Rock, told Business in Vancouver that B.C.

Canadians’ business confidence held steady in March from the previous month, but is trailing confidence levels from a year ago, according to a just-released consumer confidence survey conducted by TNS .

Northern B.C. is about to pass Metro Vancouver for economic growth, according to a new forecast by Central 1 Credit Union .

B.C. added 39,900 jobs new jobs last year, reducing the province’s unemployment rate to 6.9% from 8.

Business leaders are speaking out about basing more of their enterprises outside the province because they fear the next election will result in a New Democratic Party (NDP) government.

Two Lower Mainland contractors are being sued after a house guest was allegedly injured by a falling light fixture.