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Sometimes in this column (which we know you’ve been eagerly anticipating), we spread the grading out a bit throughout Canada. This is BCBusiness, so we focus on the country’s westernmost province, but it’s not always possible to ignore issues of nationwide...
The picturesque Sunshine Coast community is enjoying an economic revival, with help from entrepreneurs and young families fleeing the mainland Colleen McClean stares at the ceiling where her vent fan should already be installed and sighs. It’s just another in a long list of hiccups and delays that keep pushing back the...
Address: 2707 Point Grey Road, Vancouver Price: $17,800,000 Listing: R2351412 The skinny: Four-bedroom, five-bathroom, 5,269-square-foot waterfront home in Kitsilano The bling: How many fireplaces do you need to get by? In a pinch? Could you manage with, say, four? Couldn’t that lead to hypothermia...
It’s been 10 years since Angus An redefined Thai food in Vancouver with his flagship restaurant, Kitsilano’s Maenam. And he hasn’t exactly been sitting on his laurels since then. The Taiwan native and UBC graduate has launched four additional casual eateries...
B.C. residential real estate sales do seem to have slowed in August, but they are still happening. Of the 47 highest- and lowest-priced recorded last week, 34 were for 90-99.99 percent of asking, according to data analyzed by Vancouver-based Zolo...
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Erik Leslie remembers walking through the woods along the west arm of Kootenay Lake in July 2017 and feeling the snap and pop of dry brush underfoot. “We had a wet fall, winter and spring, and then we didn’t get a...
We’re almost two months away from the 2019 federal election in Canada and—not sure if you noticed—the first major blow was dealt in what is sure to be a particularly nasty election campaign. Canada’s ethics commissioner, Mario Dion, found that Trudeau violated...
Like, how his company got its name. In his late teens and early twenties, Michael Wrinch worked throughout B.C. as a forest firefighter. “Being the physically smallest on the crew, I had to work twice as hard to prove myself which often meant I was trudging through mud and hauling extra...
As the Vancouver housing market grinds to a halt, property developers are pulling back. Under the provincial Real Estate Development and Marketing Act, builders must sell about 60 percent of a project within nine months to obtain construction financing. Good...