Business

Gates open for major Disneyland expansion around original site

Disney could spend $1.9B over the next decade to transform its 490-acre Anaheim property

Apr 17, 2024 1:30 PM Read more >

Western Forest Products curtails Alberni Pacific sawmill ‘indefinitely’

Firm says it has been unable to achieve an outcome that would allow the site to keep operating

Apr 17, 2024 6:30 AM Read more >

Worker shortage, late payments have B.C. construction industry asking for help

Shortage of qualified workers pushes average annual wage to just short of $75,000

Apr 16, 2024 3:30 PM Read more >

Ladysmith restaurant retiring ‘Wigwam’ name after 99 years

Owners retiring after operating business for more than 30 years

Apr 16, 2024 10:30 AM Read more >

Walmart Canada says new warehouse robots no threat to jobs

2020 estimate put 10.6% of Canadian workers at high risk of seeing robots transform their jobs

Apr 12, 2024 7:00 AM Read more >

Bell CEO blames ‘shifting viewing habits’ for thousands of job cuts

Bibic called before Parliament after the company announced 4,800 job cuts in February

Apr 11, 2024 2:30 PM Read more >

Nanaimo workers help create B.C.’s first fully unionized private cannabis store chain

Workers joining Local 1518 means every Trees Cannabis shop in B.C. is now unionized

Apr 11, 2024 9:45 AM Read more >

Timber-framed construction free to climb 6 storeys higher in B.C.

B.C. building code to allow mass timber in buildings up to 18 storeys, up from 12

Apr 10, 2024 1:35 PM Read more >

Wildfire-damaged timber salvaging to get easier in B.C.

Province changing fees, process in order to encourage salvaging

Apr 10, 2024 12:30 PM Read more >

Sick of extra fees online, or ‘drip pricing’? Canadian shoppers are fighting back

Place a shipping order with Canada Post and you might be hit with a ‘fuel surcharge’ of almost 25 per cent

Apr 7, 2024 8:40 AM Read more >