Vancouver sex trade group wins co-op status
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - A group of Canadian sex trade workers hoping to set up a legal "co-op" brothel in time for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver said on Friday they have won approval to incorporate themselves.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep.
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A 13 YEAR old Taiwanese boy has been arrested for running a sexual services business on the web. More than 100 teens had signed up for the boy&#39;s &quot;compensated dating&quot; site which usually refers to youngsters trading sex for money or gifts.
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Private equity firm Leonard Green &  Partners LP and retailer The Container Store said on Tuesday  they have agreed to a financial partnership in a private  transaction whose terms were not disclosed.
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Homosexual couples in Colombia have the right to share communal property, the Constitutional Court rules.
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By ERICA CORDOVA Journal Staff Writer  After months of negotiations and bickering, the city and county came to a unanimous agreement Thursday over how to pay for operational costs for   one of the largest public works projects in the region's history.
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There was no big stir on Wall Street, but a San Francisco-based Internet company marked a cultural milestone Thursday by becoming the first gay-directed business to trade its stock on a major exchange.
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TORONTO -- The announcement, on World AIDS Day, was made by International Co-operation Minister Aileen Carroll, who heads the Canadian International Development Agency.
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Another victim of gentrification: the Playpen sex shop.
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - The hot new Christmas gift in Canada this year is a board game that lets players run their own "B.C. Bud" marijuana farm.  Creators of "The Grow-Op Game" say the $39.95 "educational board game" highlights the perils of the marijuana business and cautions would-be growers.
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Teck Cominco  and the union representing workers at its Highland Valley copper mine in British Columbia have reached a tentative labor contract, the union said on Sunday.
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The UK's two biggest co-operatives agree terms of a merger that would form the world's largest such group.
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Members of the Canadian Auto Workers have ratified an agreement with DaimlerChrysler to add a third shift at a Toronto-area plant.
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A DNA-based matchmaking service claims to hook up couples who will share an aromatic attraction.
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A group of Canadian co-workers will finally receive C$5.75 million ($5.75 million) in prize money, three years after their winning lottery ticket was allegedly stolen and cashed in by a retailer.
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Teck Cominco (TCKb.TO) and the union  representing workers at its Highland Valley copper mine in  British Columbia have reached a tentative labor contract, the  union said on Sunday.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - If Health Canada agrees, Vancouver crack addicts could have a safe place to inhale their drugs within the city's pioneer safe injection site.