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BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 9m

S&P/TSX finishes more than 280 points higher, U.S. stock markets mixed

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index notched another record high, helped by strength in basic materials stocks, while U.S. markets posted mixed results. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 283.51 points at 30,637.12.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 41m

US stocks rise following another day of swings

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks closed higher in another topsy-turvy day on Wall Street. The S&P 500 added 0.4% Wednesday, but only after jumping toward one of its biggest gains since the summer, erasing it all and then climbing back.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 1h

Champagne says world economy showing signs of resilience in face of U.S. trade war

WASHINGTON — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said a new International Monetary Fund report shows while the global economy is showing resilience in the face of U.S. tariffs, trade uncertainty is holding it back.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 2h

Greyhound buses attempting a comeback in B.C.

The company left Western Canada in 2018 and Canada entirely in 2021.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 3h

Champagne says world economy showing signs of resilience in face of U.S. trade war

WASHINGTON — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says a new International Monetary Fund report shows that while the global economy is showing resilience in the face of U.S. tariffs, trade uncertainty is holding it back.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 3h

S&P/TSX composite up more than 300 points, U.S. stock markets also climb higher

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index was up more than 300 points in late-morning trading in a broad-based rally, while U.S. markets also pushed higher. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 372.23 points at 30,725.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 5h

Manufacturing sales down one per cent in August at $69.4 billion

OTTAWA — Manufacturing sales fell one per cent to $69.4 billion in August, as production declined in the aerospace and auto industries, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 5h

Rob Shaw: Even Eby’s critics are siding with him on softwood

When loggers, unions and industry giants all back the premier, you know Ottawa has neglected B.C.’s forestry sector

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 6h

US stocks climb following profit reports from banks and tech

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are climbing following profit reports from some of the world’s biggest names in banking and technology. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% in early trading Wednesday.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 6h

Canadian manufacturing sales down 1.0 per cent in August at $69.4 billion

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell one per cent to $69.4 billion in August, as production declined in the aerospace and auto industries.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 7h

Tariffs, duties to take heavy toll on B.C. sawmills

Lumber producers face combined border costs nearing 50 per cent as prices fall below break-even levels

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 8h

Bryan Yu: B.C. entering an era of housing restraint

Falling sales and slower migration mark a shift after years of record growth

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 20h

B.C. Premier Eby says lifting the tanker ban would sink billions in 'real' projects

SURREY — Lifting the oil tanker ban off British Columbia's North Coast for a nonexistent pipeline from Alberta would endanger billions in other real investments that Premier David Eby says will need the support of coastal First Nations.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 21h

Vancouver mayor cites 'Indigenous title issue' in fight to abolish park board

Ken Sim: No park land to be transferred without 'direct consent' of Vancouver residents

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 21h

Building-boom ambitions meet economic headwinds in B.C.

More workers, productivity, capital needed to meet feds' target of doubling home construction, say some economists

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 21h

'Razor’s edge of survival': Eby calls for attention on softwood amid tariff hike

British Columbia's softwood industry is facing an "existential threat" from increasing U.S. tariffs that needs to be treated with the same urgency by the federal government as threats to Canadian steel and auto jobs, B.C. Premier David Eby says.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks for your 'patience,' Eby says to public over B.C. workers strike

About 25,000 union members are off the job across 20 ministries, Crown corporations, and agencies.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 22h

B.C. Premier Eby says lifting the tanker ban would sink billions in 'real' projects

Lifting the oil tanker ban off British Columbia's North Coast for a nonexistent pipeline from Alberta would endanger billions in other real investments that Premier David Eby says will need the support of coastal First Nations.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 23h

TSX soars on gains in basic materials stocks as U.S.-China trade tensions escalate

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index finished more than 500 points higher on Tuesday, helped by strong gains in the basic materials sector, while U.S. stock markets posted mixed results.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 23h

'Razor’s edge of survival': Eby decries increasing softwood tariffs

British Columbia's softwood industry is facing an "existential threat" from increasing U.S. tariffs that needs to be treated with the same urgency by the federal government as threats to Canadian steel and auto jobs, B.C. Premier David Eby says.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 23h

Details on housing development charges expected in budget: Robertson

OTTAWA — The office of federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says the Liberal government remains committed to cutting municipal development charges in half, after the minister was vague about fulfilling the promise at a news conference in Toronto

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 1d

S&P/TSX soars, closing more than 500 points higher while U.S. markets end mixed

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index finished more than 500 points higher on Tuesday, helped by strong gains in the basic materials sector, while U.S. stock markets posted mixed results. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 502.72 points at 30,353.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 1d

Stocks wobble as trade tensions between the US and China

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. indexes bounced between gains and losses and wound up mixed on Wall Street as trade tensions continued to simmer between Washington and Beijing. The S&P 500 gave up an afternoon gain and closed 0.2% lower Tuesday.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 1d

'Razor’s edge of survival': Eby decries increasing softwood tariffs

BURNABY — British Columbia Premier David Eby says increasing U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber has left anyone with jobs dependent on the forest industry under imminent threat.

BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 1d

B.C. set to open Western Canada's first new medical school in decades

SURREY — Applications are being accepted for those wanting to become doctors through Simon Fraser University, in what the British Columbia government says is the first new medical school in Western Canada in decades.