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A new economic report says the next decade in Canada will increasingly be shaped by the twin forces of climate change and demographic disruption from an aging population. 
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Hudson’s Bay Co. Chairman Richard Baker raised his offer to take the struggling retailer private, handing a victory to minority shareholders including Catalyst Capital Group Inc. that fought to derail the original bid.
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Canadian market's improved fortunes are a direct result of a group of gas producers, including Jupiter, pushing for changes
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Retailer sells headquarters and stores, then leases them back to fund turnaround effort and repay debt
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Companies on the S&P 500 have poured more than $5.3 trillion into repurchasing their own shares since 2010. WSJ explains how stock buybacks work, and why there's debate over whether or not they're good for the economy.
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Secured financing signals the company is pushing forward with its unsolicited $33 billion offer
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The EU has already invested so much of its political capital into the green transition that a failure to deliver would severely damage its legitimacy.
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Companies should be prepared for investors’ increased use of exempt solicitations and other channels to ask for change in governance and organizational practices.
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37% of the demands have been successful
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Shareholders of Yandex, Russia’s biggest technology company, approved changes to its corporate governance on Friday to allow a golden share to be held by a new entity, to assuage Kremlin fears about potential foreign influence.
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New leadership picks up the pieces after key departures and a narrowly averted crisis
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Paris joins Hong Kong and Singapore at the top of the latest ranking
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Giant listings by Saudi Aramco and Alibaba rescued a sluggish year for equity capital markets (ECM) in 2019 after a string of shelved initial public offerings (IPOs) and share price slumps.
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Cook saw his bonus shrink in the latest period because Apple didn't beat its sales and operating income targets by as much as the year before
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The governance of public companies is profoundly important. Thirty years ago, CalPERS, a major institutional investor and leading corporate governance advocate, argued that corporate governance was “the grain in the balance that makes the difference between wallowing for long and perhaps fatal periods in the depths of the performance cycle, and responding quickly to correct the corporate course.” Time and again, research has borne out the link between good governance and strong shareholder returns.
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The industry is highly profitable, lending is up and the number of problem institutions—those found to have deficiencies in their businesses—is the lowest since early 2007, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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States pay $30 billion a year to lure firms, but study finds incentives don’t seem to drive wider job growth
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The proposal is one of six that Apple shareholders will vote on at its annual shareholder meeting on February 26.
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By last count, there are now 29 U.S. law firms with at least 1,000 lawyers. In a few weeks, this number should rise to 32, primarily as the result of mergers. My prediction is that this number will climb to well over 50 by the end of this decade. Still, two inconsistent trends are peaking at the same time: (1) large firms are growing in size, but (2) growth in the number of equity partners at these firms has stalled (and may even have declined).
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In recent years, there has been a concern that CEO pay has been out of step with the pay of the average worker. This concern has been fueled by a belief that CEO pay is not linked with performance and that corporate executives are shielded in their jobs. This study is meant to dispel myths about CEO compensation in Canada and provide some much-needed nuance.
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At the end of every year, host TK Kerstetter and Paula Loop, Leader of PwC’s Governance Insights Center, share their predictions for the coming year. True to form, Kerstetter and Loop discuss and debate the top five items they believe will be on corporate board agendas
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One to watch: The prospect of 650 promised new jobs not materializing at Aurora Sun in the near future is crushing for Medicine Hat
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Media company ViacomCBS Inc (VIACA.O) said on Friday it would take a 49% stake in film studio Miramax, owned by Qatar’s BeIN Media Group, for $375 million.
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BlackBerry Ltd.’s revenue growth accelerated in its most recent quarter, sending shares up more than 8 per cent in morning trading even as the company reported a loss.
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