Entertainment, Media & Sports

Vancouver-born Olympic gold medallist Ashleigh McIvor is suing YJ Sciences Inc. (YJS) for $45,000 in damages, claiming that the company reneged on a sponsorship deal.

Economic conditions are right for Canada’s existing professional sports clubs to prosper and for new Canadian-based franchises to succeed – including a possible return of professional basketball to Vancouver – over the next 25 years

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) executive committee on August 1 approved Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) application to become the first non-American school in the prestigious sports league.

Vancouver’s Rainmaker Entertainment announced August 1 that 99.91% of the votes cast by shareholders July 31 approved the sale of the company to Rainmaker Studios Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of China-based Xing Xing Digital Corp.

Vancouver ticket brokers are doing a brisk business selling tickets to London 2012 Olympic events partly because Scotland Yard is cracking down on scalpers on London streets. Vancouver Ticket and Tour Service Ltd.

In partnership with CBC's Water's Edge series, BIV examines how moorage demand and transient boater business is declining at local marinas despite huge slip wait lists

Vancouver in a multiplayer battle to maintain video game dominance

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) has been strengthening its 300-employee Disney Online Studios Canada division in Kelowna, which operates children's virtual reality game Club Penguin.

Great Canadian Gaming Corp and the City of Vancouver have reached an agreement for a two-year extension to the operating agreement for its Hastings Racecourse property on the Pacific National Exhibition grounds.