Corporate governance - Vigil

Statistics Canada has provided the most authoritative look to date at the reach and effect of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program, enacted to preserve jobs from the turbulence of the pandemic economy.

One observer says other major platforms likely to follow Binance’s lead and simply exit the Canadian market

Some of Britain’s best- paid company bosses are behaving as if the pandemic never happened. Bonuses secured in 2019, and paused last year as firms sought government support, are returning in 2021. But there are signs of a hardening of the shareholder stance on high executive pay. Companies from Cineworld to Morrisons have faced investor ire over their remuneration policies this year.

Battle over App Store rules has renewed tensions between the rivals and could overshadow the rise of augmented and virtual reality applications

The consumer-price index and personal-consumption-expenditures index are both rising this year, but by different degrees

The number of unemployment-benefit recipients is falling at a faster rate in Missouri and 21 other states canceling enhanced and extended payments this month, suggesting that ending the aid could push more people to take jobs.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering speeding up the deadline for investors to alert the market when they amass an ownership stake of more than 5% of a company’s stock.

Canada’s burgeoning technology sector is poised to break venture capital funding records for the second consecutive quarter and is on track to surpass the all-time high for a single year, set during the dot-com bubble a generation ago.

Routledge, who is the current chief executive of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC), begins his seven-year term as Superintendent of Financial Institutions on Tuesday. He takes on the role as Canada sets its sights on a recovery in the pandemic-ravaged economy.

The debt includes penalties should Enbridge fail to comply with carbon emission-reduction targets or fall short of its diversity goals

Inflation climbed in May at the fastest pace since 2008, as businesses reopen from their pandemic shutdown and prices jump higher, fueling anxiety among some economists and debate in Washington.

The Boston Consulting Group chief says most CEO jobs—and the skills required—have been radically and permanently altered

'HBC maintains that retailers and landlords should equitably share the burden of the pandemic,' a spokesperson for the company said after the ruling

The deal signals the Canadian firm's intent to expand buyout investments on the continent

Comcast Corp. chief executive Brian Roberts built a colossus, branching out from cable and broadband into entertainment with the acquisition of NBCUniversal a decade ago. Now, he has to prove the company is equipped to compete amid a dramatic industry shift to streaming.

It may sound like a good idea. But it likely won’t achieve the results proponents want.

U.S. households gained $13.5 trillion in wealth in 2020. That isn’t how recessions usually work.

Canada’s accountants say it is time to decide on a universal approach to replace a dizzying array of reporting standards for environmental, social and governance issues – and that companies should make their voices heard in an international push to come up with one.

The Brussels regional government announced on Friday a ban on diesel cars in the region by 2030 and petrol cars by 2035 in an effort to meet the European Union’s carbon neutrality goal by 2050.

A win in the CannTrust case could lead to more such cases and would send a strong message to companies to be scrupulous in what they tell the investing public

An influential watchdog group said on Thursday that the British government was doing far too little to carry out the ambitious pledges it had made on tackling climate change.

Japan’s Panasonic sold all of its stake in Tesla last fiscal year which helped it earn billions of dollars in proceeds to fund new investments, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday.

Shareholders voted against the re-election of Osamu Nagayama, former head of a Roche Holding subsidiary in Japan