Corporate governance - Vigil

A group of business leaders and public policy experts will launch a new body to grapple with thorny questions surrounding the future of transportation including self-driving and electric vehicles.

Tech giants including Amazon.com Inc. and Google reported strong quarterly sales and profits that showed how pandemic-era demand for their digital services and gadgets is driving them to new heights even in the midst of a debate about their market power.

Third-quarter figures are dramatic, but need careful interpretation

The death of its patriarch leaves South Korea’s biggest conglomerate with familiar challenges

Spike in Covid-19 infections could send eurozone economy into reverse, leaving it lagging even further behind the U.S.

Ms. Freeland did not announce any new fiscal targets or policy measures. Instead, the minister explained why further deficit spending is needed, and that the government believes it is affordable because of historically low interest rates.

Rafati has taken a tech company public in largest IPO in TSX history for a firm run by a female founder and chief executive

The chief executive of Canada’s second-largest supermarket chain criticized two of his chief competitors on Wednesday for foisting a set of “repugnant” new fees on suppliers.

France was bracing for a fresh blow to its beleaguered economy as President Emmanuel Macron reimposed a nationwide lockdown through December to prevent an alarming surge of coronavirus cases from spiraling out of control.

As deforestation and climate change increase the spread of new diseases, meet the virus-hunters trying to prevent the next Covid-19

The outlook for the pandemic continues to worsen, and many areas of the United States are experiencing their worst weeks yet. The country reported a record of more than 500,000 new coronavirus cases in the past week.

American Express Co said on Thursday it was investing $1 billion to advance racial and gender equality, the latest in a line of U.S. companies pledging to promote social justice after a series of race-related protests earlier in the year.

Forecast-beating results highlight strength of online business even as operational scrutiny grows

Women’s lot in EU countries is improving—slowly. And it may yet go into reverse

The suspension of its rule book could offer space for a wider rethink

A new book suggests looking up to space

Late Thursday, the Chinese financial-technology giant said individual investors in mainland China had placed the equivalent of more than $2.8 trillion of orders for their slice of Ant’s record-breaking initial public offering, in which it is listing simultaneously in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

The chief executive officer of Sobeys parent company Empire Co. Ltd. is supporting a code of conduct for the grocery industry in Canada, calling recent moves by competitors to raise fees for suppliers “repugnant” and “terrible” for consumers.

Canada’s top doctor has warned that the government must correct its “boom and bust” approach to preparing for major outbreaks, which left the country ill-equipped for COVID-19 and eroded key safety systems such as the pandemic early warning unit.

The document guiding the OSC’s new Office of Economic Growth and Innovation branch is in keeping with a broader push by the Ontario government to lower business costs and ensure the province is “open for business.”

The Bank of Canada is setting up to run a high-pressure economy until at least 2023, a delicate operation that will require lots of tinkering along the way.

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