Albert Van Santvoort
Acquisitions by foreign firms dominate top M&As
Deal to buy Clearwater Seafoods is an outlier among biggest 2021 transactions on BIV list
One-step unionization, card check, comes back to B.C.
Card check is coming to British Columbia, easing unionization efforts for workers by allowing a one-step unionization process. This afternoon B.C. Labour Minister Harry Bains announced B.C. would...
B.C.’s biggest real estate deals begin to bounce back
Average deal value grew 43.9 per cent in 2021 after steep drop in 2019
B.C.’s biggest mining M&As down from 2020 peak
After spiking by 114.5%, average deal value falls below 2019 levels
B.C.’s largest engineering firms grow through pandemic
Average number of professional engineers grew 19% over the past two years
Metro wastewater treatment plant back to Square 1
North Shore engineering project’s 10-year history fraught with delays, cost overruns
Software companies rebound from pandemic losses
Average employment at B.C.’s largest firms has peaked in 2022 after declining in 2021
Pandemic fails to slow city’s office space momentum
Metro Vancouver lease market is already tightening as demand returns
Manufacturers recover from 2021 employment decline
Average employment up 6.4% over past year in Metro Vancouver’s manufacturing sector
Special report: Innovations, initiatives for an overheated housing market
New ideas needed now to address Metro’s chronic affordability, availability challenges