Business

The U.S. trade representative has started an inquiry under the North American Free Trade Agreement to determine if the Nova Scotia government has offered improper subsidies to a Cape Breton paper mill.

The micro-condominium units proposed for the Jan-ion Hotel redevelopment would be priced between $100,000 and $150,000, delivering a new type of real estate offering to the capital region.

An economist says one of the simplest ways British Columbia can get its fair share of oil pipeline revenues is by imposing higher property taxes on those projects.

A group of companies headed by SNC-Lavalin has been selected to build the next rapid transit line in Metro Vancouver. The B.C.

More than a billion people now log into Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or what their kids are doing.

The Alberta government says there won't be any charges against two oilsands companies that own tailings ponds in northern Alberta where hundreds of ducks died two years ago.

It appears Calgary-based eatery Original Joe's is destined for the Tuscan sun. In Saanich, at least.

Improved sales performance and selling off noncore assets gave Victoria's Vecima Networks a turnaround of $13-million in its year-end performance in 2012.

An Ontario company has applied for permits that would allow a fibre optic cable through the Northwest Passage to bring vastly improved data service to much of the North.

The United States' crude oil supplies declined by 500,000 barrels, or 0.1 per cent, to 364.7 million barrels, which is 8.4 per cent above year-ago levels, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report.