Corporate governance - Vigil

National Bank of Canada Chief Executive Officer Louis Vachon expects a new burst of mergers and acquisitions to help fuel earnings in the bank’s capital-markets business, continuing the strength it showed in the early days of the pandemic.

The federal government says it will provide $100 million from its strategic innovation fund over four years to accelerate the development and use of technologies to lower the oil and gas industry’s environmental impact.

Mitsubishi Chemical picks head of French company, Jean-Marc Gilson, as next leader

Centre d'entreprises et d'innovation de Montréal, the Centre de l'entrepreneurship technologique de L'École de technologie supérieure and Bonjour Startup Montréal to receive almost $5 million each.

It starts with acknowledging the consequences of one

Its rebound is also starting to look a little more balanced, with consumption again on the rise

German sportswear company Adidas is planning to sell its Reebok division, Germany’s manager magazin reported on Thursday, as the group seeks to put an end to its ill-fated investment in the U.S.-focused brand.

Topaz Energy Corp. shares fell abut 0.5 per cent in its Toronto Stock Exchange trading debut after completing Canada’s biggest energy initial public offering in three years.

Canada’s financial industry needs to expand access to capital markets to help transition the country with the world’s third largest oil reserves to a low-carbon economy, according to a Laurentian Bank note.

Canadian employment in September was 3.7 per cent below its pre-pandemic level, while the gap in the U.S. was about seven per cent. That’s enough for economists at Canada’s second-biggest bank to conclude that it’s time to check our assumptions.

Executives defied directions from supervisory board as forensic accountants closed in

Government borrowing in the eurozone surged this spring to its highest levels since the creation of the currency union, as countries spent hundreds of billions of euros to cushion their populations against the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Pandemic putting a lot of stress on executives and prompting company directors to think about succession plans

Win-win arguments promoting both bigger profits and better social returns are illogical

The surge in Covid-19 infections in Europe is prolonging the economic pain the region has suffered

The largest tech companies have expanded into a dizzying range of industries. Amazon faces credible e-commerce rivals in the form of Walmart and Shopify. Video-streaming is a fight for supremacy between half a dozen firms. And cloud computing has become a fiercely contested market, too, as our analysis of the adventures of Microsoft shows

Pressure is mounting on China’s Huawei Technologies Co., as growth slows in the face of tightening U.S. restrictions on its chip supplies and as an increasing number of countries shun its 5G gear.

Despite the challenges, many Canadian researchers are plugging away at a variety of technologies and strategies. Here's a closer look at the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Canadian teams listed by the World Health Organization.

The European Union wants the World Health Organization to become more transparent about how states report emerging health crises, a draft proposal on reforming the U.N. agency says, following criticism of China’s initial handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Exxon Mobil Corp is “very close” to completing its workforce appraisals in the United States and Canada and expects to unveil job cuts, its chief executive told employees in an email on Wednesday.

What is surprising is that Canada will have the distinction of running the largest deficit among all countries — advanced, emerging and developing — at 19.9 per cent of GDP.

The audience for online news has grown rapidly over the past few years, but it’s large technology platforms such as Google and Facebook that have reaped most of the rewards while traditional news-gathering operations have suffered.

Companies admit the need; now we require accountability and action to make it a reality

China’s Ant Group has cleared the final hurdle for its $30bn initial public offering, after receiving approval from Hong Kong’s bourse ahead of what is set to be the world’s biggest-ever stock market debut.