Rio Tinto BC Works employees celebrate the achievement of reaching full capacity last year. General manager Simon Pascoe says the smelter remains firmly committed to Kitimat and the surrounding region, both as an economic driver and a long-term community partner. Supplied photo

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Global headwinds won’t deter BC Works’ long-term investment in Kitimat: Simon Pascoe

BC Works GM highlights climate pressure and trade tension at Kitimat Chamber of Commerce AGM

Highland Foundry employees at work in Port Kells during a Surrey Industry Tour on Friday, April 25, 2025.

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Hot moments on B.C. industry tour and cold realities of U.S. tariffs

3 busloads of business types motored around Surrey, listened to stories about decline of B.C. manufacturing

Cars were lined up to Highway 97 across the bridge to get to the Gen7 gas station on the Penticton Indian Band land after a flash $1/L fuel sale to celebrate their official grand opening on April 23.

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Growing Indigenous gas station chain plants first B.C. foothold in Okanagan

Gas stations officially open in Penticton, Oliver and Osoyoos, so far

Sandra Oldfield

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B.C. summer tourism outlook positive despite concerns coming over U.S. border

Industry counting on at least a normal amount of American visitors, more Canadians staying close to home

Sidney has been named most economically resilient B.C. city in 2024 by business magazine, BC Business.

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Vancouver Island dominates 2025 list of B.C.’s most resilient communities

BC Business ranked 50 municipalities across the province based on nine economic indicators

Rogers Communication and the National Hockey League have agreed to a new 12-year, $11 billion media rights deal.

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Rogers, NHL agree to new ‘monumental’ 12-year, $11 billion media rights deal

The deal will begin for the 2026-27 season, after the last deal expires

Corey Wood, Sandy Burns and Cory Hastings of Best Coast Distillers celebrate Agricole bottling day.

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99-year-old B.C. farm distills Canada’s first limited edition Agricole Rum

'This batch is very personal to us. We’ve done something nobody else has done.'

Workcamp at Seabridge Gold’s KSM project in northwest B.C. The company has successfully challenged a Canada Revenue Agency decision that denied $15.8 million in exploration expenses (Seabridge Gold photo)

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Seabridge Gold wins B.C. Supreme Court battle over disallowed expenses

The company successfully challenged a Canada Revenue Agency decision that denied $15.8 million in exploration expenses

West Fraser employs 500 full-time workers at the sawmill and plywood plant in Williams Lake.

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West Fraser adapts to forest industry uncertainty in B.C.’s Cariboo

Over the past three years West Fraser has planted more than 63 million trees in the Cariboo

All but six locations across Canada will close.

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B.C. shoppers swept up in nostalgia as iconic Hudson’s Bay liquidates

Online sales will continue through April 15, in-store liquidation sales to wrap up by June 15