Business

Another $5 jump in airport fee to fly out of B.C. at YVR

Airlines will start charging the new rate on Dec. 12 for travel Jan. 1, 2020 onward

• by Karissa Gall
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B.C. still losing money on legalized marijuana sales

Talks with municipalities continue on revenue sharing

• by Tom Fletcher

Teal-Jones shuts down remaining B.C. coast logging operations

Layoffs affect forest harvest in Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island

• by Tom Fletcher

Slow home sales cool B.C. government revenues this year

Finance Minister Carole James releases first 2019 results

• by Tom Fletcher

Anti-diversity op-ed should never have run in Vancouver Sun, prof says

Newspaper apologizes after printing Mark Hecht’s column on how more diversity means less social trust

• by The Canadian Press

Ride-hailing service Kater seeks southern B.C. licences by the winter

CEO says it hopes operations in the rest of B.C. will be up and running in 2020

• by The Canadian Press

Canadian flyers scramble after strike forces British Airways cancellations

About 3,500 passengers on more than a dozen Canada-to-London flights are expected to be affected

• by Associated Press

B.C. greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase

Petroleum, road transport improved efficiency in 2017

• by Tom Fletcher

Indigenous rights plan sparks concern in B.C. communities

Local governments left out of talks on caribou protection

• by Tom Fletcher

Ottawa’s response to ‘gig economy’ hindered by unreliable data, documents say

Documents show feds were unsure of existing data on number of Canadians earn livings online

• by The Canadian Press

Cariboo resident invents fun gadget to help you clean your dog

Brown wanted to come up with a way to efficiently wash his dogs out in the yard, or while on the go

• by Patrick Davies

Golf carts exempted from new B.C. seat belt regulation

WorkSafeBC review looks at mowers, braking standards

• by Tom Fletcher

New business brewing on Oliver Street

Bell, Broom and Cauldron offers a variety

• by Monica Lamb-Yorski

Canada sees gains in part-time, youth employment as wage growth slows

Economy adds 81,100 positions in August

• by The Canadian Press

U.S. can’t show harm from Canadian softwood industry, NAFTA panel says

U.S. had argued Canada unfairly subsidizes its softwood producers in imposing latest import duties

• by The Canadian Press

Bank of Canada holds interest rate as it takes stock of trade war impacts

The move kept the central bank’s overnight rate at 1.75 per cent

• by The Canadian Press

Interfor closing B.C.’s historic Hammond Cedar sawmill

Century-old mill part of company’s coastal reorganization

• by Tom Fletcher

B.C.’s costly gasoline partly due to low-carbon requirements

B.C.’s increasing requirement similar to Oregon, California

• by Tom Fletcher

Chinese companies commit to Canadian oilsands despite setbacks, poor operating results

European and U.S. companies have cut back

• by The Canadian Press

Meat-subscription-box companies take over marketing chores for B.C. farmers

City dwellers can also go to a local butcher to purchase local, ethically raised cuts

• by The Canadian Press