Corporate governance - Vigil

A prominent market research company says RBC and Tangerine were Canada’s highest rated banks this year, even as overall customer satisfaction among financial institutions dropped during the pandemic.

Alberta has stopped administering first doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, except in limited cases, becoming the only government in Canada to make such a move as other provinces weigh their options with remaining doses of the vaccine.

The weekend ransomware attack that forced Colonial Pipeline Co. to shut the largest U.S. fuel pipeline has been one of the most disruptive cybersecurity incidents ever reported.

The bosses of 14 big organisations, including Capita, Unilever and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have pledged to put the wellbeing of staff, local communities and broader society higher on the boardroom agenda, after concluding it will enhance the long-term profitability of their businesses.

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Big cities lost residents and the suburbs gained after 2020 lockdowns and low mortgage rates supercharged shifts in where people want to live

Executive pay at the UK’s biggest companies is down more than a fifth since the start of the pandemic as coronavirus ushers in a period of restraint in the corporate world.

Flights delivering passengers infected with COVID-19 into Canadian airports are now predominantly domestic routes, a trend that began around the onset of spring break, according to federal data on airplane exposures compiled by The Globe and Mail.

Canada’s real estate market has skyrocketed over the past year, setting off a vigorous discourse over the dangers of rapidly rising prices and steeper barriers to homeownership. And yet, inflation numbers offer a subdued – even drab – version of events.

Executive bonuses in the US have received record low support from investors this year after boardroom moves to loosen performance targets during the pandemic backfired. 

The surge of coronavirus infections in developing countries such as India amid a relative scarcity of vaccine supply means that the pandemic will keep spreading until mid-2022, according to the inventors of the first Covid-19 vaccine authorized in the West.

The pandemic is accelerating growth in midsize cities, positioning them to lead the charge in the nation’s economic rebound.

Canadians tend to pay higher premium for insurance than citizens in many, if not most, other developed nations, according to a recent report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

While acknowledging they were participating in CEWS during the peak of the pandemic, BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. both failed to disclose to shareholders just how much CEWS money was boosting their bottom lines. In filing its annual report this spring, Rogers Communications Inc. finally told shareholders it participated in 2020, and that its CEWS tally was $91-million.

Montreal software firm Lightspeed POS Inc. has struck a global retail partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Google to allow small businesses — many of which were devastated by pandemic closures — to advertise to local shoppers looking for alternatives to e-commerce giants.

The online retailer’s push into grocery sets up a $1.3tn fight that will shape how America shops

Global GDP contracted by 3% last year, but in Latin America and the Caribbean it fell by 7%

America's job market is in a weird spot: it's still millions of jobs short of where it was before the pandemic, but businesses complain they can't find staff. Opponents of enhanced unemployment benefits during Covid say the government aid is so cushy, the jobless don't want to return to work. On the surface, that argument has some merit.

Company investors—including Disney, A&E Networks and TPG—would remain shareholders under proposed structure

In this episode, Michael Brittian discusses the top issues we can expect to see on upcoming compensation committee agendas.

Hedge funds and wealth managers had one of their best years of returns in a decade in 2020 but some of those top performers were recipients of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, a federal program intended to pick up the payroll tab of businesses that had taken a revenue hit during the pandemic.

The U.S. securities regulator is considering measures to require big investors to disclose more about short positions, or bets that stocks will fall, use of derivatives to bet on other stock moves and to protect small investors from trading apps that use features common to video games in order to boost risky trading activity.

Some view herd immunity—the point at which a critical mass of a population become immune to a disease-causing virus or bacteria—as a key factor in determining when Covid-19 will be conquered and economies will return to normal. Until herd immunity is reached, some say, governments will restrict activities to prevent the disease’s spread, resulting in fewer goods and services being produced and consumed.

op executives at McDonald’s, Domino’s and other companies weigh in on wage mandates and how they set pay for their workers