Finance
Vancouver-based Green Impact Partners (TSXV:GIP) has started construction of a renewable natural gas plant near a couple of big dairy farms in Colorado that’s expected to churn out 800 million Btus of the stuff per day when it’s finished a year or so from now.
The stock: The fact that Methanex Corp. (TSX:MX, NASDAQ:MEOH) happens to be based in Vancouver goes back to its origins in a single plant in Kitimat using natural gas feedstock from Alberta to manufacture methanol for export to global markets—a...
The stock: Investors are on the fence about B.C.’s, indeed Canada’s, largest diversified mining company, Teck Resources (TSX:TECK.A, TECK.B; NYSE:TECK). On the one hand, it’s a bad, old fossil fuel producer, accounting for most of the country’s metallurgical coal production and part-owner of the Fort Hills oilsands mine in Alberta.
Life Story: “My journey wasn’t determined,” Lauren Minogue says of her rise to VP with one of Vancouver’s biggest money managers. Raised in Edmonton, Minogue did a BComm at UVic’s Peter B. Gustavson School of Business. She then returned home...
Life Story: Attending fine arts school as a child didn’t foreshadow Emily Davies’ career in finance, but the Fort Langley native comes from an entrepreneurial family. Her grandfather, a Swedish immigrant, bought real estate throughout the Lower Mainland—as well as...
The stock: Gold producers generally have been trending downward for months, given the ambivalence around the price of gold. Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX, NYSE American:EQX), chaired by Vancouver mining and renewable energy tycoon Ross Beaty, has done worse than most—down 39 percent year-to-date, to $8.65 on Tuesday—largely thanks to the...
The stock: In a province burgeoning with ambitious (some might say overhyped and overpriced) technology startups, Absolute Software Corp. (TSX, NASDAQ:ABST) is a hoary relic of an earlier time. It was founded in 1993, focused on tracking systems for the...
The stock: Not to mix metaphors, but there’s an old saw that the surest path to riches in a gold rush is selling picks and shovels. Well, even with the purported new commodity supercycle now looking tentative, Vancouver-based Finning International...
Student impact investors from the Vancouver Social Value Fund (VSVF) have helped raise $200,000 to finance a struggling coffee shop in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. East Van Roasters, located at 319 Carrall Street, risked permanent closure after its parent company restructured. That’s...
The whole idea of non-fungible tokens can be hard to wrap your head around, let alone the thought of designing or purchasing one. Enter CoinOS, a Vancouver company that recently launched a white-label NFT marketplace designed to make it easy...