BRITISH COLUMBIA - Business Improvement Areas of BC (BIABC) are calling on the newly elected NDP Government to move with urgency to address a number of critical issues impacting public safety and...

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian retail sales rose 0.4 per cent to $66.6 billion in August from the previous month. Compared to the same time last year, retail sales are also up by 1.4 per cent. However,...

OTTAWA —The federal government’s plan to make all electricity generation in Canada carbon-free by 2035 is impractical and highly unlikely, given physical, infrastructure, financial and regulatory...

BRITISH COLUMBIA - BC’s net job creation from 2019-23 has been driven almost exclusively by growth in government employment rather than the private sector, at 22 per cent and 0.5 per cent over the...

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Following announcement of the provincial election results on October 28, 2024, the BC Chamber of Commerce together with other business and industry associations released the...

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Business Improvement Areas of BC (BIABC) are calling on the newly elected NDP Government to move with urgency to address a number of critical issues impacting public safety and...

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Canadian retail sales rose 0.4 per cent to $66.6 billion in August from the previous month. Compared to the same time last year, retail sales are also up by 1.4 per cent. However,...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and 20 other industry organizations have sent a letter to Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, calling on the federal government to...

OTTAWA - As the U.S. election approaches, most (87 per cent) Canadian business leaders fear that the Canadian economy could become ‘collateral damage’ from growing American protectionism that would...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada today reduced its target for the overnight rate to 3¾%, with the Bank Rate at 4% and the deposit rate at 3¾%. The Bank is continuing its policy of balance sheet...

OTTAWA - As the U.S. election approaches, most (87 per cent) Canadian business leaders fear that the Canadian economy could become ‘collateral damage’ from growing American protectionism that would...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada today reduced its target for the overnight rate to 3¾%, with the Bank Rate at 4% and the deposit rate at 3¾%. The Bank is continuing its policy of balance sheet...

BRITISH COLUMBIA - British Columbia’s restaurant industry is shedding jobs at an alarming rate and has experienced the largest year-over-year drop in employment of any province, warns Restaurants...

By Jim Girvan From Fall 2024 Truck Loggers Association Magazine BRITISH COLUMBIA - Forestry, by its nature, is a slow moving, long-term game. Timber supply models used to set the allocated an-nual...

OTTAWA - Roughly four per cent of CBC (3.7 per cent) and CTV’s (4.1 per cent) coverage of the federal government’s child care, pharma care and dental care programs reported the costs to taxpayers,...

The following op-ed by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson and the Business Council of British Columbia’s David Williams first appeared in the Sept. 25, 2024 edition of the Globe and Mail. BRITISH...

OTTAWA - Canadians are settling into new work-from-home patterns, but regional disparities reveal different experiences across the country, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In...