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It was a perfect ending to an imperfect afternoon at BC Place Stadium when the Vancouver Whitecaps' $900,000-a-year star striker Eric Hassli scored an injury time, game-winning goal on May 5. The Caps beat the San Jose Earthquakes 2-1, the reverse of the score when the cities' North American Soccer League predecessors met exactly 38 years earlier. Back then it was outdoors in Empire Stadium.

The chairman of Telus started out as an equipment installer on his long road to helping build B.C.'s biggest public company

“Land prices are high … higher than anything would warrant … [Workers] cannot afford to pay at the rate demanded for these tiny outside lots. The same thing was said here 20 years ago… repeated 10 years ago and five years ago, and our children and our children’s children will hear the same tale … decades hence.”

Demon Alcohol is back in the news again.

The PC win in Alberta will put more pressure on provincial budgets in both provinces

One of this columnist's first real estate stories was a 1996 feature for the Fredericton Daily Gleaner that examined issues associated with the discovery of remnants from an ancient Maliseet settlement on the banks of the Jemseg River in New Brunswick.

How Avigilon's IPO raised $25 million in tough economic times

Popular wisdom holds that a tech device needs to run Microsoft Office to be successful with business users.

I had an idea last year. (One.) It’s our Stratford Shakespearian Festival’s 60th anniversary. Why not stage famed British director Tyrone Guthrie’s first play there, Richard III – which starred the great Alex Guinness – recreating the fabled designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch? And promote the Guthrie 60th like hell – posters, nostalgia about the festival’s birth?

He has held some of the most sought-after executive positions in the province with the Vancouver Canucks, VANOC and BC Hydro – now Dave Cobb is working alongside B.C.'s best known entrepreneur at The Jim Pattison Group