Economy, Law & Politics

New trade direction for the province under Premier David Eby is short on supply chain improvement details, analyst says

In the post-COVID era, B.C. saw its trade policy shift substantially, not only towards diversification but also using social/environmental sustainability as a key selling point.

The detainee found dead in the Surrey immigration holding centre on Christmas Day was a Taiwanese national described in media reports there as a cryptocurrency marijuana ring mastermind.

TORONTO — Experts say the upcoming earnings season will be overshadowed by the broader economic climate, with interest rates and inflation data more closely watched thanindividual company reports.

OTTAWA — As Canada plans to significantly ramp up its immigration levels in the coming years, some policy experts are worried about potential effects on health care, housing and the labour market.

An NDP cabinet minister attended one of the Lower Mainland’s first major Lunar New Year banquets since the pandemic began, where guests included a Chinese military veteran and the president of a society under an RCMP national security investigation.

Immigration drove population growth in British Columbia’s urban centres while rural communities and smaller cities got a little bit older and experienced more deaths than births over the course of the pandemic’s first two years, census data shows.

Slowing economy expected to reduce the demand for contractor-freelancer work

Despite more than two-dozen attempts, no MLA has successfully been recalled in B.C. history

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada may lose up to $8.8 billion over the next few years, according to a new report warning the central bank may run into a communications challenge as a result of the losses. The report from the C.D.