The Bacchanalia Gala Dinner and Auction, the highlight of this week’s Vancouver’s international wine festival, raised $447,000 in support of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company.

A Shelburne County real estate broker and a writer are being sued for defamation by two developers selling local land on EBay.
Lawyer Gary Richard of Burchell MacDougall said Carmen and Kevin Blinn have hired him to sue broker Joyce Case Harlow and writer Timothy Gillespie. He said he will file papers in court in Truro [...]

Canam Credit Company Inc. is proud to announce its participation in sponsoring this year’s “Mr. Calgary,” Calgary’s Savviest Bachelor Charity Auction, hosted by Savvy Connections.
I hope to see you all there, maybe give me a bid or two — it’s all for a good cause.
The event features 12 of Calgary’s Savviest Bachelors and auction [...]

An Ontario animal-welfare agency was thrown on the defensive yesterday after an auction notice listed for sale four animals in its care. Horse lovers had feared the animals might be sold for slaughter.
On the weekend, word spread on a horse fanciers’ discussion board that the Claremont Horse Auction, which takes place in a town just [...]

CTV.ca – Hockey Canada is seeing red over former NHL Player’s Association executive Alan Eagleson’s plan to auction off nearly 100 items of memorabilia.
Eagleson, the founder and former executive director of the players’ organization, was found guilty and served six months in jail in the late 1990s for fraud and embezzling hundreds of thousands of [...]

BidRent.ca, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Idea Labz Corporation, www.IdeaLabz.com – a privately held internet incubation company with popular websites such as DiscountMore.com, BidRent.com and BidSell.com, today launched Canada’s first auction site targeting apartment and house rentals in Canada.
Called the “eBay of rental properties,” BidRent.ca enables landlords to list vacancies for free, giving potential tenants the [...]

Former NHLPA founder Alan Eagleson is in the spotlight once more as 98 items from his hockey memorabilia collection are up for sale in an online auction.
The month-long sale, launched by Classic Collectibles on www.classicauctions.net, includes Canada Cup jerseys once worn by Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier and a 14K solid gold puck once given [...]

A rare first edition King James Bible that languished for decades in a small storage room on the second floor of the downtown library is now at Sotheby’s in Manhattan, where it just might fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction in June.
How high the bidding could go on the 396-year-old tome, believed to [...]

Owners of a British Columbia equestrian training college are champing at the bit to help a Leduc County ranch family devastated by fire.
Eleven horses and a dog died in a blaze that destroyed the Kallechy family’s barn and riding arena on Feb. 5 at the Kalleco Ranch near Highway 14 and Range Road 225, southeast [...]

An auction of sculptures by international artists that have been on display around Vancouver for the last 18 months has raised close to $3 million.
The art, including 22 huge outdoor pieces that came to the city for the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale, was sold Thursday night by Christie’s.
Jaguar, the huge red sculpture that has become [...]