Business

Black Press Extreme Career Fair features TED-type talks

Companies have 15 minutes on the main stage in Courtenay to pitch their business. It's part of a day full of opportunity.

Feb 8, 2017 6:00 PM Read more >

Negotiators prepare for U.S. lumber talks

Two years trying engage U.S. government on softwood lumber trade have been frustrating, now bracing for Donald Trump administration

Feb 6, 2017 5:00 PM Read more >

B.C. considers business sales tax relief

Finance Minister Mike de Jong considers giving up $160 million in provincial sales tax revenue added to business electricity bills

Jan 25, 2017 10:00 AM Read more >

Premier shifts job focus to technology

Technology, climate innovation replace mines and natural gas in Premier Christy Clark's blueprint for B.C. growth

Jan 23, 2017 7:00 AM Read more >

Horgan takes on Clark, forest companies

Donald Trump trade threats raise political heat for Premier Christy Clark

Jan 18, 2017 5:00 AM Read more >

Business Beat: New diving business opens in Valley

Caviar Dreams is a new business in Port Alberni with PADI certified SCUBA instructors providing dive training.

Jan 17, 2017 4:00 PM Read more >

B.C. job growth confined to southwest

B.C. continues to lead the country in new job creation, but most areas of the province lost jobs in 2016

Jan 9, 2017 11:00 AM Read more >

Lumber trade 'injury' claim upheld by U.S.

Softwood lumber dispute escalates as president-elect Donald Trump begins actions to protect American jobs

Jan 6, 2017 3:00 PM Read more >

B.C. lowers cap on payday loan fees

Fee for short-term borrowing lowered to $17 per $100, a rate Public Safety Minister Mike Morris says is second lowest in Canada

Jan 4, 2017 7:00 AM Read more >

Higher home values ring in 2017

B.c. property assessments are out, showing jump in Okanagan, South Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver

Jan 2, 2017 2:00 PM Read more >