Corporate governance - Vigil

The National Council on Occupational Safety and Health recently included Amazon in its “Dirty Dozen” list of the most dangerous employers in the U.S.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen Canada suffer its darkest pedagogical period in modern history.

BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. are asking the Federal Court to block Quebecor Inc.’s purchase of 5G airwaves in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba, arguing that the Quebec telecom did not meet the requirements to bid on those blocks of spectrum in the most recent auction.

After multiple waves of COVID-19 outbreaks and school closings, some students are months behind in the curriculum – so educators are changing it. Here’s how

One of the founders of Facedrive Inc. a ride-hailing startup that has seen a precipitous drop in its stock price after a meteoric rise earlier this year, is resigning as chief executive and chair of the company.

Rivian, a promising and well-funded electric truck maker, said on Friday that it was planning to sell shares through an initial public offering. The company, which has raised more than $10 billion from investors that include Amazon and Ford Motor, did not provide many details about its confidential filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Jay Powell has sent his strongest signal yet that the Federal Reserve could start dialling back its massive pandemic-era stimulus programme this year, declaring the US central bank had met the first of two goals it wants to achieve before reducing its support and was making “clear progress” on the second.

Chief Operating Officer Tom Montag and Vice Chairman Anne Finucane will remain in advisory roles

China plans to propose new rules that would ban companies with large amounts of sensitive consumer data from going public in the U.S., people familiar with the matter said, a move that is likely to thwart the ambitions of the country’s tech firms to list abroad.

The takeout app’s shares are warming up after a rocky IPO, but profits look elusive as ever

IFLR’s latest explainer looks at how companies are preparing for the revised code and areas where it still falls short, such as gender diversity and board independence

Loan growth stronger in Canada than U.S.

“I was very skeptical when I first heard of the government’s intentions around this kind of technology — it could have gone wrong in so many ways,” Lachance said in an interview.

Air Canada’s decision not to offer rapid testing as an alternative for employees who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 sets a tough new precedent that other companies may emulate, experts say.

In early 2015, Elizabeth Holmes’s star was rising fast. Theranos, her Silicon Valley startup, was being feted for its remarkable invention: A printer-sized machine capable of running hundreds of different blood tests cheaply and quickly from just a tiny droplet of blood taken from a patient’s finger, rather than vials drawn from a vein in the arm.

Europe’s banks are proving slow to act on sustainability and have only a limited grasp of their exposure to environmental, social and governance-related risks, a report for the European Commission by asset manager BlackRock showed.

If a worker is fired 'without cause' in Canada, they are entitled to anywhere from three to 24 months of pay

In academic economics, the more senior title the job grade, the more male‑dominated it is

The SEC has given the green light for shareholders in Fox Corporation to vote this fall on a proposal regarding the company’s lobbying activities.

The Fed can and must address climate-related financial risk.

Carrier says it failed to protect customer data and has hired security experts to beef up defenses

The UK’s financial watchdog has warned that “many firms still have significant work to do” to meet tougher governance requirements for insurance products that come into force in October, stressing that non-compliance could prompt regulatory action.

Britain's accounting watchdog plans to strengthen "significantly" its audit firm governance code, it said on Thursday, after a number of issues around audits of UK firms in recent years.

Toronto-Dominion Bank reported higher third-quarter profit as retail banking revenue increased and the bank reversed loan loss provisions earmarked earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.