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Innovating Vancouver key grips score Oscar win

Four B.C innovators bagged an Oscar for their unique air wall invention that is now used on blockbuster movie and TV sets such as Game of Thrones.

Finning to cut global workforce by eight per cent, close 11 locations in Canada

Job cuts will include 440 people in Western Canada, 550 in South America and a smaller number in Europe.
Credit counselling in high demand in Alberta as oilpatch downturn hits home

Credit counselling in high demand in Alberta as oilpatch downturn hits home

Alberta lost 14,000 net jobs in February — 7,000 of those in the natural resources sector.
2015 to shape new liquefied natural gas industry, accroding to BC government

2015 to shape new liquefied natural gas industry, according to BC government

"We have enough natural gas to help fuel our world for the next 150 years," says Coleman.

A few-must see films at VIFF this year

VIFF, like Reese Witherspoon, is ready to go. She's in the opening film, Wild

Foreign procurements taking jobs from Canadians

Canadians are losing jobs to foreign procurements.

Harper's mobs, oaths and long-term austerity plan

On the path "Stephen Harper has chosen for us."

The Butler, In a World and The Spectacular Now shine, while Jobs underwhelms

Forest Whitaker and Oprah relive the American civil rights movement in Lee Daniels’ The Butler

City of Vancouver takes leadership on coal: highlights of yesterday’s hearing

Three business representatives and three climate stability advocates faced off before the Vancouver City Council to comment on the motion that City staff “report back on a bylaw to prevent...

From Steve Jobs to the godfathers of beat poetry: 3 biopics to watch at Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival is in full gear in Park City this week with a phenomenal line-up of films. Here are three buzz worthy biopics premiering at the festival this year, starting with jOBS:...