Business
Home prices rise in cottage country amid demand from remote workers, retirees
The data from Royal LePage comes amid an overall uptick in home prices this year,
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Carole James stays on to advise B.C. Premier John Horgan
Retired finance minister to earn a dollar a year
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‘Nightmare on Main Street:’ After a tough year, campaign urges consumers to buy local
Only 38 per cent of retail businesses are reaching their usual sales levels
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B.C. returning to ‘stand-alone’ forests, rural development ministry
Horgan says Gordon Campbell’s super-ministry doesn’t work
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Black Friday shopping in a pandemic: COVID-19 closes some stores, sales move online
Eric Morris, head of retail at Google Canada, says e-commerce in Canada has doubled during the pandemic.
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‘A captive market:’ U.S. border closure keeps Black Friday shoppers in Canada
Black Friday originated in the United States as a post-Thanksgiving shopping event
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B.C. Master of Wine reflects on industry’s teetering economic state
Pandemic, for some wine makers, has been a blessing in disguise. For others, not so much.
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Despite reduction, Canada calls U.S. softwood lumber duties ‘unfair,’ ‘unjustified’
U.S. producers have long taken issue with Canada’s system of provincially regulated stumpage fees
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Online shopping set to hit record this year in Canada
Study suggests that majority of shoppers looking online for holiday gifts
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Long-awaited federal rent subsidy program for businesses hurt by COVID-19 opens today
The new program will cover up to 65 per cent of rent or commercial mortgage interest
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