Corporate governance - Vigil

SNC-Lavalin has named Jeff Bell as its next chief financial officer as part of the company’s ongoing renewal process.

The news industry has largely neglected agriculture. It has firmly planted itself deep inside our cities, fostering a knowledge dissemination climate that has kept vital information regarding food production, farming and all the related science out of the spotlight.

The MFDA Special Report provides analysis and commentary relevant to the self-regulatory organization ("SRO") experience in Canada and proposes employing a "blank page approach" to create a new kind of SRO. This new kind of SRO would be one which is suited to the changes of the past decade, which improves on the existing model, and one which is adaptable to the dynamic nature of securities regulation in Canada.

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has launched a review of how it polices the securities industry, appointing a high-profile committee with a mission of creating a “more flexible regulatory approach.”

Americans don’t save for retirement as much as they should. Mandatory programs run by states or the federal government, such as the Saving for the Future Act, could boost their retirement savings and, through economies of scale and default investments, boost the return on those investments.

Aurora Cannabis Inc. remains in a precarious cash position, analysts warn, even after a dramatic overhaul of the company’s finances last week that saw the announcement of hundreds of layoffs and as much as $1-billion worth of writedowns.

Featured below are companies that have experienced recent insider trading activity in the public market through their direct and indirect ownerships, including accounts they have control or direction over.

In a new twist to SNC-Lavalin Group’s bribery scandal, an oversight body in Quebec has banned several of the companies’ entities from bidding on public procurement contracts for five years.

Issy Sharp, Jim Treliving and more on how flaming out made them better