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Government policy designed to cool the housing market has played a role in slowing the pace of all construction in Greater Victoria, figures released Monday by Statistics sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ show.

sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s budget surplus would be $7.2 billion, not the $1.5 billion sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Finance Minister Carole James reported this week, if the government had used independent accounting standards, the province’s auditor general said Friday.

Dry-dock maintenance work on the Royal Canadian Navy frigates at Seaspan Victoria Shipyards will be crucial in making the yard’s workforce sustainable, a Seaspan official says.

In the first of what could be a series of deals and partnerships to be announced in the coming years, the company behind Bear Mountain Resort has sold its hotel.

In a bid to focus its energy and resources on its golf courses and developments close to larger cities, GolfBC has completed the sale of Arbutus Ridge Golf Course in Cobble Hill.

Victoria faces big-city problems, and potential, as an industrial land shortage and high demand for office and retail space characterize the province’s strongest commercial real estate market outside the Lower Mainland.

The Great Canadian Beer Festival will return to Royal Athletic Park Sept. 6-7 with the largest lineup of breweries in the event’s 27-year history. More than 90 brewers from across sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ will set up temporary stalls.

VANCOUVER — One of the largest fuel companies in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ said Wednesday there is no retail market in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ more competitive than gasoline as it denied price-setting between competitors.

Three more charging stations for electric vehicles have been set up on Vancouver Island. The new stations, announced Tuesday, are part of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ government’s move to make it easier to explore the province in eco-friendly electric vehicles.

A five-year contract worth $500 million to perform dry-dock maintenance on sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s navy frigates was signed Tuesday at Seaspan Victoria Shipyards in Esquimalt.