British Columbia

Planned new supply promises to rebalance, renew region's industrial options

TORONTO — A new report says rents are still rising in Canada, but the year-over-year pace of growth has slowed. The data from Rentals.ca and Urbanation says asking rents for all residential property types averaged $2,201 in July, up 5.

BC Wildfire Service says discarded cigarettes are a well-known and documented cause of wildfires.

VANCOUVER — Urban planner Louisa-May Khoo says she got a sense of deja-vu when British Columbia Premier David Eby announced the BC Builds housing program earlier this year.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country posted a merchandise trade surplus of $638 million in June as exports of crude oil and gold rose sharply. The agency says the result compared with a revised trade deficit of $1.6 billion in May.

Buyers home in on fundamentals when scouting prize assets for their portfolios

Developers of giant projects in Vic West and Harris Green say they hope to start construction soon despite economic challenges.

Mayor confident the city will meet or exceed that goal

Longer amortizations, expanded insurance rules now in play

WHITEHORSE — The Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation in Yukon wants the company that owns the gold mine where a massive ore slide and cyanide spill occurred in June to be removed from managing the cleanup, and it's calling for a public inquiry into the disa