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The Queen Victoria Hotel and Suites building is being converted into rental units. Vancouver-based Concert Properties acquired the 47-year-old, eight-storey building at 655 Douglas St. from the Hartnell family this year and took possesion on Friday.

Investors increased the amount of money they put into mutual funds last month than they did a year earlier, according to data compiled by the Investment Funds Institute of Canada. The industry group said net sales totalled $1.

Second location for successful barbecue joint

Truffles Catering has been named Green Business of the Year by the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce.

Canada's biggest movie exhibitor plans to dish out more than just the latest films at its new upscale theatres. Cineplex Inc.

Japanese mobile operator Softbank Corp. said it will buy 70 per cent of Sprint Nextel Corp for $20.1 billion, giving Softbank the American toehold it has long desired and Sprint the capital to expand its network and potentially buy peers.

At 3.4 kilometres, it's the deepest well ever drilled in Saskatchewan. The shaft has been sunk over the past two months as part of the Petroleum Technology Research Centre's Aquis-tore project to permanently store carbon dioxide deep underground.

Despite a slight recovery from August, home sales in September fell 15.1 per cent from a year ago due to tighter mortgage lending rules and an uncertain economy, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday.

Telus said Monday that it has been given permission to go ahead with a vote on its share exchange proposal by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, despite an appeals court ruling that sided with a dissident shareholder.

The Toronto stock market racked up a minor gain Monday amid positive earnings from the American financial sector and economic data from China and the United States that was better than expected.