Business
Retiring B.C. shoe store owner donates his entire inventory to Salvation Army
Shafi, 91, retires after more than 70 years in the business
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Warren Buffett’s fortune tops $100 billion as his stock soars
He’s given large blocks of Berkshire Hathaway stock annually to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Funding initiative aims to boost sales for B.C. farmers, food producers
B.C. government’s initiative helping companies market their products as local
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Rent freeze, construction rules fuel housing shortage, B.C. NDP told
B.C. Liberals vote against new ‘renoviction’ restrictions
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Bank of Canada keeps key interest rate target on hold at 0.25 per cent
Bank points to new, more transmissible variants of COVID-19 as the biggest risk to an economic recovery
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Vancouver’s Herschel Supply Co. names former Arc’teryx president new CEO
The local company tapped former Arc’teryx president Jon Hoerauf to take over the role
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3 out of the top 5 livable places in the country are in B.C.: report
Langford placed first and Kelowna came second in a report by RATESDOTCA
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B.C. bus lines, regional airports to get $27M in COVID-19 aid
Operating grants ‘a life raft’ for connecting communities
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Huffington Post Canada sees layoffs, website closure weeks after acquired by Buzzfeed
It’s part of a restructuring plan for the company, with changes also predicted for U.K. and Australia
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Lady Rose sells old B.C. ferry, ends hopes of West Coast of Vancouver Island run
Port Alberni business had hopes of servicing car ferry to west coast before COVID-19 hit
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