Corporate governance - Vigil

Canada’s billionaire Weston family is selling its namesake food-making division, choosing to focus instead on its supermarket and drug store chains and its vast real estate holdings.

A report shows that boards have become more future focused in the past year. But challenges on tech strategy and diversity remain.

Benchmark defines key indicators of success for business alignment with a net zero emissions future and goals of the Paris Agreement

The emerging possibility of a third wave of COVID-19 in Canada – and another bout of shutdowns and stay-at-home orders to go with it – is something that none of us relish. It’s disappointing. It’s dispiriting. After a year of this, it’s exhausting.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has signed a deal to sell 49 stores in Oklahoma to Casey’s General Stores Inc. for $39 million.

Drug maker said it would prepare to request emergency authorization in the U.S. in coming weeks

Big U.S. firms have to disclose climate, diversity and governance data for investments by funds marketed in the EU

In too many cases, when private company owners or CEOs take the initiative to form a board, they surround themselves with golf buddies, old college pals, and others who tend to look and sound just like they do.

“I think it was 2015-one-seven-seven,” said Philippe Jetté, chief executive of Montreal-based Cogeco Inc., stretching his memory to come up with the name of a five-year-old decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that suddenly represents what could be the country’s last chance at a competitive market for wireless internet.

Announced on Sunday morning, the deal requires approval of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, but has the support of both railways’ boards

The financial crash. Brexit. The early days of the pandemic. Through it all, the former Bank of Canada Governor has been a steady hand. Now, back in the corporate realm (and with a new book out), he’s tackling the biggest crisis of all: climate change

The agreement will provide Canadian exporters and businesses with continued preferential access to the U.K. market.

COVID support will end — and when it does it could create a whole new set of problems for borrowers, investors and governments

GameStop Corp said on Tuesday its chief customer officer Frank Hamlin will resign from the company on March 31, the latest sign of a broader overhaul at the video game retailer driven by its top shareholder, Chewy.com co-founder Ryan Cohen.

Discord has been talking to potential buyers and software giant Microsoft is in the running, but no deal is imminent, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

The world’s biggest carbon-emitting companies are far from aligning with the Paris Climate Agreement, a report by the leading climate-focused investor group showed on Monday.

ByteDance said on Monday its video games unit Nuverse has agreed to acquire Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton Technology, as it seeks to further expand into the video games business.

In the past two decades, Canadian railways attempted three major U.S. takeovers, only to back down each time in the face of opposition from U.S. regulators.

The slow pace of EU’s vaccination drive bodes ill for the millions of jobs and businesses that rely on summer tourism

Ten women who are suing the Walt Disney Company for what they have called “rampant gender pay discrimination” have added a claim involving pay secrecy, a topic that is becoming a larger part of the national conversation about workplace equality.

There is reasonable concern the recent rise in inflation is more than just a one-off rebound from depressed prices a year ago.

Canopy Growth Corp is borrowing US$750-million from private equity group King Street Capital Management LP, in a move that has left analysts speculating that the company could be priming itself to make a significant acquisition.

The government plans to make it easier to claw back bonuses paid to executives of failed companies in what is being billed as the biggest shake-up of Britain’s corporate governance rules in decades, with ministers vowing to target negligent auditors and rogue directors.

German health minister Jens Spahn on Friday dampened hopes that further coronavirus restrictions will be lifted soon, saying rising infections could mean that curbs to slow the spread of the virus may have to be reimposed.

Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. gave its CEO, Canadian tech entrepreneur David Ossip, a US$ 22.4-million option grant in 2020 as a retention and incentive award – despite the fact he was already holding US$ 365-million in shares and options at the time.