Corporate governance - Vigil

Will help fund research on ways to reduce emissions, lessen environmental impacts of mining and support more sustainable agriculture

Glenview Capital Management, a shareholder in Bausch Health Companies Inc., sent a letter to the drugmaker’s chief executive on Friday, saying the spinoff of the Canadian company’s eye care unit should be completed by the end of 2021.

The federal government said in reviewing the deal it took into account the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the companies, and said the takeover was in the public’s best interest.

Canada’s largest airline said its full-year revenue fell by $13.3-billion to $5.9-billion, compared with 2019, as passenger volume dropped by 73 per cent.

Quebec nursing homes have stopped their most severe COVID-19 outbreaks and are down to single digits in new cases per day across the province, offering the first hint vaccination may be working in the care system where a quarter of Canada’s pandemic deaths took place.

A Reddit-fueled day-trading craze last month pushed shares of GameStop Corp., the videogame retailer, as high as $483, but the hype has fizzed. Shares traded Thursday around $50, off almost 90% over the past two weeks.

The highly contagious variant of the COVID-19 virus first found in Britain accounts for some 17.8% of all new infections in Italy, with the infection rate ticking up in many parts of the country, the health ministry said on Friday.

Tech and ecommerce companies seize on investor demand for lockdown winners

Developers of clean energy, emission-free transportation and other climate-friendly technologies are tapping capital markets in what financial players see as a new wave of initial public offerings driven by surging investor demand for sustainable assets.

That brings its one-time pandemic spending to $13.3 billion

But pipeline operator says even Brookfield's top offer does not reflect the true value of the company

Software group looked at potential deal for $51bn social media company

Financial group BPCE offers to buy out Natixis shareholders, ending the bank’s bumpy run as public company

Analysts say ARC Resources’ deal for Seven Generations could spark more mergers and acquisitions

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a good chance of winning a $5.7-billion hostile bid for Inter Pipeline Ltd., as it has been strategically amassing a large stake in a target struggling to win market confidence, but Brookfield may have to up the ante, analysts said Thursday

The $5 billion-plus bid battle for British security firm G4S will be settled by a rare head-to-head auction later this month if one of its two North American suitors hasn’t prevailed by then, Britain’s takeover regulator said on Friday.

Purpose Investments Inc. has been cleared by regulators to launch the world’s first bitcoin exchange traded fund, opening the door for retail investors to more easily access a cryptocurrency that had been stalled by regulators for years.

The Green Future Index shows China and the United States continue to lag behind Europe and other parts of the world in achieving decarbonization.

Lockdowns in Britain contributed to the largest contraction of the world’s major economies in 2020

Deficit for fiscal 2021 will come to $2.3 trillion, almost $900 billion less than projected earlier, as economy revives

While boards in 2021 continue to navigate the pandemic and social injustice, there are still several past, present and future legal/compliance issues that remain at the forefront of board agendas. Which legal topics should be on the radar of board members and corporate secretaries?

A decline in the use of cash and the boom of e-commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the Bank of Canada to speed up its development of a “digital loonie,” even as the decision to issue such a currency remains up in the air.

The $2.7 billion deal is a case of two companies looking for a strategic fit, combining Seven Generations' crude oil and liquids-heavy output with ARC's gas-focused production

Amazon’s founder has drawn accolades, but there are stronger candidates for the title such as Elon Musk

Covid-19 may become endemic. Governments need to start thinking about how to cope