The British Columbia Council for International Education is helping co-ordinate the Team BC China Mission at the Government of Canada’s branded education ‘Pavilions’ at various locales during the 2017 China Education Expo (CEE) from October 21–29, 2017. This year, Canada will be featured as the Country of Honour, which was announced during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s official visit to Canada in...

Richmond, B.C.-based Norsat International Inc. Norsat International Inc., a provider of communication solutions for remote and challenging applications, has announced the completion of the plan of arrangement with China’s Hytera Communications Co., Ltd. in which Hytera’s wholly-owned indirect subsidiary, Hytera Project Corp., has directly acquired ownership and control over 100% of Norsat’s...

Japan’s Princess Ayako of Takamado has completed a visit to Western Canada, including official activities and events in Alberta and British Columbia. In Lethbridge, she took part in the 50th anniversary celebration for the city’s Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden that her family helped inaugurate in 1967. Her parents also marked the gardens’ 25th anniversary in 1992. In Calgary, she took part in the...

North Vancouver, B.C’s Grouse Mountain ski resort and entertainment complex has been purchased by Grouse Mountain Resorts Limited Partnership (GM Resorts), a company established through China Minsheng Investment Group, a state-owned Chinese investment firm. GM Resorts was incorporated in March of this year and was established by CM (Canada) Asset Management Co. Ltd., a Canadian investment and...

At a recent groundbreaking ceremony for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on India’s east coast, Dharmendra Pradhan, India’s minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, announced that the terminal would import LNG from Canada, Qatar, the United States and Iran. While a Canadian project was not named, reports indicate that Indian Oil owns a 10 per cent stake in Pacific Northwest LNG, a...

Representatives from the Kingston Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO) travelled to China as part of a small Canadian delegation undertaking activities centred on meeting executives at Chinese dairy company Feihe International on the occasion of Feihe’s 55th anniversary. Feihe has made a C$225-million investment in an infant formula plant in Kingston, the groundreaking for which will take...

Calgary-based oilfield services company Raise Production Inc. has received a patent in Australia for its Horizontal Wellbore Production System. The system was developed to be used in oil-and-gas drilling where wells are at angles approaching horizontal. The patent, the first to be awarded for the technology outside Canada, legally protects the intellectual property for a number of method claims...

The University of British Columbia’s Centre for Chinese Research is convening an event to commemorate Chinese human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, who died on July 13. The commemoration is taking place on Wednesday, July 19, from 4:00-6:00pm on the UBC campus. For more information and to register, click here.

Laval, Quebec-headquartered Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. will sell its Obagi skin care business to a Hong Kong-based group for US$190 million. The buyer is a fund managed by a limited partnership that includes China Regenerative Medicine International and Haitong International Securities Group, both headquartered in Hong Kong. Valeant estimates its Obagi Medical Products unit will...

Vancouver-headquartered Lithium Americas Corp. has closed an investment agreement with BCP Innovation Pte Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bangchak Corporation Public Company Ltd., a Thai energy company. Bangchak has agreed to provide Lithium Americas with US$113 million in financing primarily to fund a portion of Lithium Americas’ share of construction costs for the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium...

Vancouver-headquartered Revelo Resources Corp. has signed a Letter of Intent with Austral Gold Ltd. allowing Austral to purchase two of Revelo's gold-silver projects located in northern Chile, in exchange for common shares in Austral and a royalty on future production from the projects. The agreement is subject to due diligence and the signing of definitive documentation in Chile within 90 days,...

Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec-headquartered Premier Tech has announced that it has acquired a majority shareholding position in Brisanzia Technologies Pvt, Ltd., located in New Delhi, India. The acquisition was conducted through Premier Tech’s Environmental Technologies Group (ETG). Brisanzia offers a range of products and services in water management, and will be integrated with ETG, resulting in a...

Bardish Chagger, Minister of Small Business and Tourism and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, has concluded a five-day trip to China, with visits to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Guiyang and Beijing. Minister Chagger was a member of the Right Honorable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada’s official visit to China. During the visit, the minister promoted Canada ahead of the...

Approximately 130 Canadian Army soldiers participated in Exercise Talisman Sabre, a military exercise which runs every other year and that trains, primarily, Australian and American forces to plan and conduct combined taskforce operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts. The...

Vancouver-headquartered Aurora Cannabis Inc. is hosting an Australian delegation led by the Minister of Agriculture and Minister for Regional Development for the state of Victoria at its Alberta facilities. The delegation will visit Aurora’s production facility in Mountain View, Alberta, and its 800,000-square-foot facility now under construction at Edmonton International Airport. The purpose of...

Vancouver-headquartered Compass Gold Corp. and Australia’s Mali Gold Exploration Pty Ltd. (MGE) have entered into an agreement setting out the terms and conditions for Compass to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of MGE in exchange for the issuance shares in Compass to MGE’s shareholders. MGE is a private Australian company with gold exploration permits in Mali.

Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, has announced a modernized and expanded Canada-Thailand air transport agreement. The new agreement, which replaces the existing agreement that was signed in 1989, allows for 21 flights per week for each country. It also enhances rights that allow airlines to extend Canada-Thailand services to third countries on up to seven of the 21 weekly flights. In addition...

The Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto is hosting 'Diligence and Elegance: The Nature of Japanese Textiles', from July 12, 2017, through to January 21, 2018. The exhibition features over 50 textiles and garments from the Textile Museum of Canada’s collection of 19th and 20th century pieces and also features the contemporary work of two Japanese-Canadians, Hiroko Karuno and Keiko Shintani. The...