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Corporate governance at Facebook is much closer to being a dictatorship than a democracy. Who is the better model, George Washington or Vladimir Putin?
Scott Saxberg leaves after 17 years; replaced by company veteran Craig Bryksa for the interim
China’s envoy has accused the federal government of discrimination for blocking the takeover of a Canadian construction giant by a Chinese state-owned enterprise on national security grounds, calling on Canada to get rid of such ”demons” of prejudice against his country.
Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange on May 30 last year, luring investors with the promise of building the massive Trans Mountain expansion project. But just under a year later, shareholders seem to be left with a decidedly low-growth entity in their portfolio after the company’s most prized asset was sold off.
When Laboratory Corp. of America disclosed pay for its chief executive in March, the company said he made $1.5 million in 2016. A week later the diagnostic-lab chain filed a new document listing his pay at $10.9 million.
Alphabet and Facebook shareholders will once again vote on shareholder proposals at their 2018 annual shareholder meetings related to unequal voting structures. With growing concerns about data and privacy issues, shareholders will weigh in on how other company governance issues are also at play.
Shari Redstone jockeyed for years to succeed her father atop a media empire that includes CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. Having reached that summit, the newly minted media mogul believes merging those companies is the best way to preserve her family’s legacy and wealth.
Since its inception in 2002, the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance has had its sights trained on governance practices at Canadian public companies. Now, the advocacy group – whose members include pension funds, mutual funds and institutional investors – is turning its attention to Corporate Canada’s environmental and social practices, as well.
Based on $143 million raise, MedMen appears to be the most valuable public U.S. marijuana company to date
&P 500 companies have returned a record $1 trillion to shareholders over the past year, helped by a recent surge in dividends and stock buybacks following sweeping corporate tax cuts introduced by Republicans, a report on Friday showed.
AI won't just affect entry-level workers in the future, says Board Dynamics' Henri Eliot. But boards can adapt to the AI revolution - if they're willing to embrace the transformation.
The renaissance in capital spending the tax cut was supposed to bring about isn’t showing up in the economic data.
A decade after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, a nearly debt-free Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is preparing to unveil a growth plan for the next five years at a test track outside Milan.
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Voting is not just about boardroom composition but also the quality of organisations’ diversity policies, and that is why LGIM is putting its money where its mouth is.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada is “very ready” to retaliate if the Trump administration follows through on its threat to impose tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium this week.
For those with long memories, the mess in Italy this week might not seem like such an aberration. Turmoil in electoral politics is the norm. As recently as two years ago, Matteo Renzi, the youngest prime minister in Italy’s history, resigned after losing a perhaps justified and completely ill-advised referendum on constitutional reform.
The chief executive of US chipmaker Qualcomm has predicted that the arrival of 5G will propel Chinese technology companies to the top of the global smartphone industry, threatening to disrupt today’s market leaders such as Apple and Samsung.
Shari Redstone shot back at CBS Corp. CBS in court Tuesday, alleging that CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves gave the CBS board an “ultimatum” that he would resign unless directors voted to strip her family of voting control.
Serge Dassault, the billionaire French defence industrialist and politician, has died at his office in Paris aged 93.
Global politics are threatening to generate “another major financial crisis”, George Soros warned on Tuesday while also calling for a “reinvention” of Europe to solve its deepening flaws.
Scott Saxberg is stepping down as chief executive officer at Crescent Point Energy Corp. as the oil producer seeks to lift a long-languishing stock price.
A Tim Hortons franchisee who is being denied a licence renewal after the company accused him of violating food safety and operating-standards has passed most of such reviews, internal documents obtained by The Canadian Press indicate.
Political backlash to slow growth and immigration has produced the least cooperative government imaginable in Italy, a coalition between the left-populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the right-populist Lega. And borrowing costs have started to rise in reaction. Does this mean that a crisis is imminent? If so, how bad would it be?
Paul Singer’s hedge fund last week confirmed reports that it had a stake in the German industrial icon, which produces steel, elevators and a panoply of car parts and other industrial goods. This makes two of the world’s top activist investors agitating for change.
From trade talks and scrapped deals to elections and government infighting, “uncertainty” has emerged as the biggest obstacle for Canada, according to the head of the nation’s largest lender.
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