British Columbia

Western Canada provinces ease regulations on businesses as pandemic fears ebb

Suddenly that guy who lives off grid and grows his own vegetables doesn’t seem so crazy

This year, “is done – it’s all negative” says Michael Goehring, president and CEO of the Mining Association of BC.

Some Vancouver mall vacancies could hit 50 per cent in wake of virus crisis – but global retailers expected to take advantage of lower lease rates

COVID-19 crashed home sales by up to 50 per cent in April but benchmark prices increased across the Lower Mainland compared to a year earlier, with the gains seen in detached and strata properties

Less than 20 per cent of tenants seek rent relief compared to nearly 50 per cent of retail tenants in shopping malls

At least a dozen Surrey firms now making masks, shields and sanitizer for virus battle

Up to 45 per cent of tenants did not pay rent April 1 as eviction ban and rent increase freeze comes into force across Western Canada

Public confidence key for restaurants to return to profitable operations

April 25 ruling will move hundreds from B.C.’s biggest homeless camps into hotels and community centres left empty due to COVID-19