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Audain Foundation’s $100m donation revives hope for new VAG home

Audain Foundation’s $100m donation revives hope for new VAG home

Contribution to help build a new gallery is the largest single cash gift to an art gallery in Canadian history
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Industrial space shortage crimps Metro Vancouver economy

Industrial space shortage crimps Metro Vancouver economy

Allowing warehouses on rural land sparks regional-government process
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B.C. old-growth ban could clear cut forest economy

B.C. old-growth ban could clear cut forest economy

B.C. government plan to make six million acres off-limits to logging could close up to 20 sawmills, two pulp mills and cost thousands of jobs, industry experts claim
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Top western towns for real estate investors 2021-22

Top western towns for real estate investors 2021-22

Western Investor’s annual forecast of top investor towns looks at five centres that are riding out the pandemic and look solid for investors into 2022
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OPINION: Affordable housing solutions? Look in the mirror

OPINION: Affordable housing solutions? Look in the mirror

Politicians and real estate developers have had their say on the root cause of Canada’s current housing-price crisis. Perhaps it is time to look a little deeper
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Construction sector tackles industrial-strength carbon action plans

Construction sector tackles industrial-strength carbon action plans

Advanced technologies deployed to reduce carbon footprints on B.C. building sites
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Metro Van votes to allow release of rural land for industrial use

Metro Van votes to allow release of rural land for industrial use

Controversial vote passed 134 to 82, with City of Vancouver representatives split
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Lower Mainland land sales surge to nearly $600 million a month

Lower Mainland land sales surge to nearly $600 million a month

Sales of land led a 130 per cent year-over-year increase in the value of commercial real estate transactions during the second quarter of 2021
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Jumbo: First B.C. town to be erased in 100 years

Jumbo: First B.C. town to be erased in 100 years

Kootenay resort town proved a fantasy: despite an appointed mayor and council it had no people and, finally, no future
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Zincton submits formal proposal for Kootenay ski resort

Zincton submits formal proposal for Kootenay ski resort

Backcountry-oriented resort would be located between Kaslo and New Denver in what was once a famous B.C. mining zone
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