Business

Police are searching for a thief with sticky fingers, but it's not money or jewels that has gone missing.

IBM Corp. said it had won a 10-year, $1-billion business consultant services contract with building materials supplier Cemex SAB de CV.

Canada's former top soldier has joined the board of a Halifax defence and simulation firm. Atlantis Systems Corp. said retired general Rick Hillier will join the board of directors.

The penny's days are still numbered, but the controversial Canadian coin is getting a last-minute reprieve before it's finally killed off as a circulated currency.

The little restaurant that should never have been - or at least the one that never should have survived - may not be hanging around downtown Victoria anymore. But it's doing just fine nestled in a relatively quiet Victoria neighbourhood.

Thermoproof Windows, which has been manufacturing from a plant in Chemainus since the late 1970s, has opened a new retail outlet and showroom in Duncan. The Thermoproof Store at 5311 Trans-Canada Hwy.

Comments anger Palestinians while Poland's Solidarity is cool

Statistics Canada says gasoline sales continued to rise for the third year in a row in 2011, even as the price at the pump shot up. The agency says gross sales of gasoline rose to 42.1 billion litres last year - a 1.5 per cent increase from 2010.

Operations have returned to normal at Cameco's Rabbit Lake uranium operation in northern Saskatchewan after workers were forced to leave because of a forest fire. Cameco says the fire burned its way to within one kilometre of the site.

Many high-tech employees get call to serve as potential jury members