Corporate governance - Vigil

Canada is scheduled to receive a flood of new COVID-19 vaccine doses this week, with around 3.3 million shots due for delivery from different pharmaceutical companies over the coming days.

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.

Christian Sewing is set to stay in charge of Deutsche Bank for five more years after its supervisory board extended the chief executive’s contract until 2026, Germany’s largest lender announced on Monday.

Stimulus checks and other government measures kept many borrowers from bankruptcy last year despite high unemployment, but economists worry it won’t last

The labor force participation rate—the proportion of the population working or seeking work—for Americans age 55 and older has fallen from 40.3% in February of 2020 to 38.3% this February—representing a loss of 1.45 million people from the labor force.

During an intense few weeks last year when the pandemic first hit, the central bank was thrust into new territory. Now it faces the delicate task of unwinding monetary support where a wrong move could trigger new economic storms

The provincial budget signals action on certain proposals from the modernization task force

Five CEOs on what their companies are doing to advance diversity and inclusion—not just around gender

One of Canada’s most powerful supermarket chains is giving legislators a blueprint on how to end bully tactics in the food chain, conceding that dysfunction between the dominant grocers and their suppliers is hurting Canadian farmers, food processors and consumers.

A significant percentage of Canadians are anxious about their financial situation as the COVID-19 pandemic drags into a second year, according to recent data collected by the Angus Reid Institute that suggests the effects of the pandemic have not been borne equally.

China’s dual-listed tech giants — Alibaba, Baidu, JD.com, and Netease — have collectively lost billions in market value in just days. The losses come amid the threat of potential de-listings from U.S. stock exchanges.

A canal service provider says that workers have successfully set free a colossal container ship that for nearly a week has been stuck sideways across the Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial arteries for trade.

“I get an email almost every morning from some SPAC seller telling me to do a SPAC with them,” said Johnny Boufarhat, CEO of Hopin, a virtual events platform. “It’s interesting, but it also doesn’t make sense for us.”

The fall in COVID-19 cases across much of the world over the past ten weeks signals a new dawn in the fight against the disease. Vaccines are proving effective and rapidly scaling, bending the curve in many geographies. This is a fragile dawn, however, with transmission and deaths still high, unequal access to vaccines, and variants of concern threatening to undo progress to date.

While consumer-goods companies have touted their success in cutting emissions in offices and factories, they are struggling to reduce what they say is the biggest source of emissions associated with their products: consumer use.

Pressured by supply-chain woes and commodities costs, Chinese manufacturers are increasing prices, adding to inflation fears

ACV Auctions is the latest tech company to use a pricing method that gives companies more visibility into what investors will pay for shares

Food delivery start-up Deliveroo has changed the target value for its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange, after some investors expressed concerns over workers’ rights and the company’s share ownership structure.

Canadian business executives must find the moral clarity to make clear to the public that systemic problems require systemic solutions led by democratically elected leaders. Truly averting the climate threat requires governments and the private sector to come together to rapidly transform our economy into one that doesn’t have to be bad for business, but can no longer be business as usual.

Proposals and pressures associated with payment of a “living wage” to employees may present themselves on the boardroom agenda much sooner than corporate leaders expect.

Turning around the challenged institution will be just one more tough job in the new CEO’s long, determined climb to the top

Telus Corp. said on Thursday it would raise $1.3 billion through an equity offering as the Canadian telecom company boosts investments in broadband connectivity and 5G.

French water group Veolia is seeking European Union approval to vote at takeover target Suez’s upcoming shareholder meeting on resolutions that could include deposing Suez board members, two sources close to the matter said.