Business
KFC Canada to test bamboo packaging for poutine starting next year
Will be available at company’s 600 Canadian restaurants starting in early 2020
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B.C. debate becomes bitter over impact of UN Indigenous rights law
Premier John Horgan cites salmon farm closures as model, opposition points to LNG, contracts
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Vancouver, Toronto see home sale gains in October, but prices diverge
Greater Vancouver home sales were up by 45.4 per cent compared with a year earlier
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5G-powered smart campus goes live at UBC
Partnership aims to fund academic research in 5G applications and applied sciences
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Interac acquires Ottawa-based digital security company 2Keys
Interac operates the debit payments system
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ICBC needs brokers, online renewals ‘not a priority,’ David Eby says
Crashes, court cases driving Crown corporation costs
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Regulator takes action against two B.C. cryptocurrency platforms
At issue are the Nanaimo-based ezBtc.ca and the Vancouver-based Einstein Exchange
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Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion
Search engine giant stepping back into wearables with Fitbit’s 28 million active users
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Gas pipeline work camp blocked from temporary northwest B.C. site
Farmland used for three years would improve land, Vanderhoof Airport
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Don’t throw out Halloween candy wrappers, take them to London Drugs
London Drugs will recycle candy wrappers as part of Other Flexible Plastic Packaging program
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