Business
B.C.’s latest COVID-19 restrictions cost thousands of service jobs
Part-time workers set back again by spike in virus spread
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Williams Lake family jumps into business at BOB’s Footwear & Apparel Inc.
Grand opening May 6 - 8
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Amazon adds new facilities in Langley, Pitt Meadows, Delta, Vancouver
The Vancouver port centre will be the first Amazon centre to feature robotics in B.C.
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Forecast calls for B.C. home sales to ‘explode,’ then drop off
Average price to rise another 10% in 2021, credit unions say
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CMHC predicts COVID-19 immunity will moderate pace of home sales, prices by 2023
The agency also predicts that rental demand will rebound as immigration recovers
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Desjardins drops disease-related liability, property damage coverage for some claims
Company said it will not cover them in the event they are sued for spreading a communicable disease
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U.S. home builders call for end to Canadian lumber trade war
U.S. Lumber Coalition says duties a small part of record price
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Drake, Ryan Reynolds among latest Wealthsimple backers in $750 million funding round
Wealthsimple began as an online investment manager in 2014
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Tilray-Aphria deal closes, company to control biggest share of Canadian pot market
About 99 per cent of Aphria shareholders voted in favour of the deal in April
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Farm-gate cannabis sales allow customers to buy pot straight from the farm
B.C. is on track for a 2022 launch for farm-gate cannabis
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