Corporate governance - Vigil

Companies are increasingly taking into account the cost of carbon in their business plans, according to new research. CDP says that in just five years there has been an 80 percent increase in the number of companies using – or planning to use – an internal carbon price.

The worst appears to be over for airlines. Now, it’s just a matter of waiting for the summer travel frenzy to begin.

Rogers CEO Joe Natale said he’s “deeply disappointed” by a wireless service outage caused by a software upgrade from its network partner Ericsson that left customers unable to text, make calls or access data on their wireless devices on Monday. The disruption came as the country grapples with a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and made it difficult for users to work from home and book vaccine appointments.

Rogers Communications Inc. beat analyst expectations and grew its first-quarter revenue and profit as its cable and media businesses saw improvements.

Banks, insurers and fund managers that control US$70-trillion of assets have banded together to use their financial might in efforts to speed up the global transition to a net-zero emissions economy with the aim of preventing the worst effects of climate change.

Budget sets Canada on a path to fiscal danger, with its plunge into permanent, unfunded spending increases and structural deficits

The Fed’s “average inflation targeting” regime remains too vague

Interventions needed to help the transition towards a low-carbon world

Why are public companies facing shareholder proposals on how they link executive compensation to sustainability?

There’s a game-changing win for family finances in the federal government’s budget proposal to deliver child care costing an average $10 per day.

Jamie Golombek, managing director, tax and estate planning at CIBC Private Wealth Management talks with the Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn in the video below about the tax measures in Budget 2021 affecting taxpayers.

The refusal to back the re-election of four members of Berkshire’s compensation committee reflects concern over the pay packages awarded to vice-chairs Greg Abel and Ajit Jain, who ISS said earn some of the largest base salaries of any executives at US public companies.

Boeing Co. on Tuesday cast a vote of confidence in Chief Executive David Calhoun by extending his job for up to five years and said it is searching for a new chief financial officer.

Prof. Viviane de Beaufort, European spokeswoman for gender equality and corporate governance and founder of the ‘Women Board Ready’ programme at ESSEC Business School, looks at gender parity – especially in France – and women’s path to corporate boards and governance.

Canadian Pacific Railway Co. chief executive Keith Creel implored investors to support its bid for Kansas City Southern over rival Canadian National Railway Co. on Wednesday, saying that the Calgary-based railway does not need to raise its bid to win.

Takeover voting trusts proposed by Canada’s two pre-eminent railways are throwing a unique wrinkle into the battle for Kansas City Southern putting extra pressure on the original bidder, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. to boost its purchase price.

Grocery sales have continued to surge at Metro Inc. as the pandemic affects Canadians’ eating habits.

The bank kept its overnight policy rate at 0.25 per cent, but shifted its forward guidance for a rate hike to the second half of 2022 from 2023.

It would cost upwards of a trillion dollars to expand nuclear-generated electricity, which is the only plausible, viable net-zero option

By the end of last June, 502 US listed companies, 17 per cent of the Russell 3000, had announced “adjustments” to the pay of their chief executives. Retailers, travel groups and manufacturers were most likely to trumpet their leaders’ willingness to share the pain.

The two cities aim to curb sharp rise in coronavirus cases as British variant spreads

Plans to update the Japanese Corporate Governance Code focus on sustainability, but Japanese firms already have a high rate of sustainability reporting. The opposite is true for biodiversity though, argues Planet Tracker’s François Mosnier

Shifting brand loyalty and increasing popularity for better-quality cannabis products are hampering the growth prospects of some of the largest cannabis companies in Canada – despite an overall boost in sales of legal recreational cannabis throughout the pandemic.

Canadian National said on Tuesday it had offered to buy railroad operator Kansas City Southern for about US$30 billion, trumping a rival bid by Canadian Pacific and sending the U.S. company’s shares up more than 20 per cent.

But overall hesitancy in covid-19 vaccines continues to fall