Business

The British Columbia Securities Commission has permanently banned a man from the province's capital markets for an attempted fraud using the Craigslist website to find investors.

A year-round downtown public market is moving closer to its April 2013 opening target after a successful meeting this week between its non-profit organizer and the building's landlord.

A U.S. appeals court overturned a pretrial sales ban against Samsung Electronics's Galaxy Nexus smartphone, dealing a setback to Apple in its battle against Google's increasingly popular mobile software.

The Harper government is once again re-negotiating the contract to replace the air force's outdated Sea King helicopters, the Canadian Press has learned.

The IMF on Thursday backed giving debt-burdened Greece and Spain more time to reduce their budget deficits, cautioning that cutting too far, too fast would do more harm than good.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to eat some products containing peanut butter because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.

WestJet says it has a name for its new discount regional carrier: WestJet Encore. The Calgary-based company says the name was picked by its customers in a vote. Services will launch in the second half of 2013.

The world now has nearly as many cell-phone subscriptions as inhabitants. The U.N. telecom agency says there were about six billion subscriptions by the end of 2011 - roughly one for 86 of every 100 people.

Nigerian farmers asked a Dutch court Thursday to rule that oil company Shell is liable for poisoning their fish ponds and farmland with leaking pipelines, in a case that could set a legal precedent for holding multinationals responsible for actions o

The Islands Trust and the Agricultural Land Commission may have paved the way for Slegg Lumber to establish a new building supply centre on Salt-spring Island, but don't expect ground to be broken anytime soon.