The Prince George Samuha Overseas Development Association is hosting a silent auction Friday with wine and appetizers to raise funds for people in Southern India who live with severe disabilities.
Physiotherapist Hilary Crowley, who founded SODA in 1994 in Prince George, and has made a dozen trips to India to work with the project, will give [...]

Senior policy makers in charge of telecommunications policy said they have “no preconceived notions” as to how a pending auction of wireless spectrum will unfold.
“The government has not made up its mind,” Michael Binder, assistant deputy minister at Industry Canada, told telecom executives at a wireless conference on Monday. “We want to get the policy [...]

The Heffel Fine Art Auction House already lays claim to having held the four top auctions in Canadian history. But David Heffel feels the company’s next auction on May 23 is really something special.
“It will be the biggest sale in Canadian history, we think,” says Heffel. “The previous record is $12.5 million, and we’re going [...]

The federal government should speed up the auction of frequencies for a new generation of wireless devices, the head of Quebecor Inc. said yesterday, arguing that a slow pace is putting Canada behind other countries.
“We believe that the spectrum auction for new frequencies should happen more quickly than what the Industry department is calling for, [...]

Free classifieds ads websites affiliated with the UsedCanada.com network served over one million pages on Monday marking a milestone in the company’s growth across Canada. The traffic as measured by Google tipped the scales at 1,015,933 pages served.
“This time last year we were serving about a quarter of a million pages per day so [...]

Two British gun experts will be in the Capital Region on Wednesday and Thursday to valuate guns.
The two experts are from Holt’s Auctioneers of Fine Modern and Antique Guns in Norfolk, England. Howard Dixon, who specializes in antique guns, swords and rifles, and Christopher Beaumont, an expert in English and European sporting shotguns and rifles, [...]

The Canadian merger and acquisition market has seen a significant increase in the use of “controlled auctions” by sellers in the past several years. So much so, sellers and managers now ask themselves whether a negotiated sale with a single prospective buyer, without an auction, ever yields the highest price or best transaction terms for [...]