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Canfor Corp. has reopened its sawmill in Radium Hot Springs after a $38.5-million upgrade. The company says once the mill is operating at full capacity next year it will produce 240 million board feet annually and employ 144 people.

Fuel cell company Ballard Power Systems is reporting a loss for the third quarter on weak sales and revenue.

Greater Victoria's top chefs are ready to dish out dinner for the winner of a draw to support local food sustainability. Cook Culture, at 1317 Blanshard St., is raising money and awareness between Nov. 10 and Dec.

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A former co-ordinator of the Sidney summer market has been named its new operator after the previous manager and the town battled over who should run the popular event. Laurie McDermid's new job starts January 1.

The Toronto stock market racked up a solid gain, led by advances in mining stocks amid rising oil and copper prices.

An investment treaty with China that would turn Canada into a "resource colony" is about to be ratified despite almost no parliamentary debate, opposition critics charge.

The Conservative government's widely criticized online surveillance legislation may be on the back burner, but another bill that would expand police access to Internet users' data is about to resurface.

If convicted fraudster Ian Thow is thinking about making a run for the border now that he's a free man, he ought to think again, according to the National Parole Board. While Thow, who was born in California and is a dual citizen of the U.S.

Some U.S. cattle producers want the U.S. government to block the possible sale of a troubled Alberta company's beef operations.