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Bombardier will bid on an upcoming New Jersey Transit rail car contract, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the Canadian plane and train maker seeks to boost its North American business after losing ground in the region to rivals.
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The federal government is looking into concerns raised by a dissident group of Tim Hortons franchisees about the potential violation of terms Ottawa placed on a deal that saw Canada’s most iconic restaurant chain taken over by a Brazilian firm
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North Korea is racing forward with major development projects some experts believe are aimed at expanding a market for rented or privately owned real estate to help fortify the finances of Kim Jong Un’s regime against the bite of sanctions over its nuclear program.
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Canadian banks have amassed their biggest war chest in five years — and they’re ready to use it.
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Doug Ford says that if he is elected Ontario premier this spring, he will fire the CEO of Hydro One and the company’s board of directors.
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In a series of letters that it sent to Amazon.com Inc. executives during the fall and winter and released to the public last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission urged the Seattle-based e-commerce and cloud computing giant to disclose its research and development spending as other companies do.
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resident Trump, in a sharp reversal, told a gathering of farm-state lawmakers and governors on Thursday morning that the United States was looking into rejoining a multicountry trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal he pulled out of days after assuming the presidency.
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Consistent with predictions made in the late 1980s, the buyout market has grown tremendously and, together with the private equity (PE) model, has become a global phenomenon. One consequence of the maturity of the market is substantial secondary management buyout (SMBO) activity.
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HNZ Group’s chief executive won the bid to take his company private in a soaring three-party carve-out deal: a go-private deal worth a whopping 43.3-per-cent premium to the preannouncement share price.
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This significant free fall can be linked to the very public spat between Tim Hortons franchisees and the Tim Hortons parent company, Restaurant Brands International (RBI). This dispute has taken its toll and likely affected the reputation of the iconic Canadian company.
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Long Blockchain Corp. and Longfin Corp., two firms whose shares skyrocketed last year after they rebranded as blockchain businesses, are set to be ousted from the Nasdaq Stock Market. Their removal signals the end of a brief era when everyone from soft-drink companies to cigar makers was cashing in on investors’ mania for cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology.
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The Canadian coffee chain says it signed a strategic alliance with marijuana clinic operator National Access Cannabis to develop and operate a network of recreational pot stores.
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TD gave clearance for its investment advisers to recommend Emblem Corp. and Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc., which analysts and the companies’ executives believe is in part because they aren’t involved in the legally murky U.S. cannabis market. The two TSX Venture Exchange-listed companies also believe their strong operations and more modest valuations, compared with peers’, may have helped.
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Despite a court order, Canada’s export agency has been unable to recover a US$52-million Bombardier jet from South Africa’s Gupta brothers, who have allegedly hidden the plane and could be using it for criminal activities.
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Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg highlighted the company’s deep roots in space exploration with a playful jab at up-and-comer Elon Musk.
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Even as Sanofi Pasteur commits $500 million to revamp a vaccine manufacturing plant in Ontario, the pharmaceuticals company is warning the Canadian government on the country’s competitiveness
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Shaw Communications Inc. had a breakthrough quarter in its ambitious plan to take on the Big Three wireless players, posting results one analyst described as “almost too good” after it started selling iPhones for the first time over the competitive holiday shopping season.
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Canadian securities regulators are demanding better disclosures about accounting and distributions from real estate investments, following a review of the sector that includes REITs and real estate operator companies.
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The London Stock Exchange Group has appointed David Schwimmer, an investment banker with a 20-year career at Goldman Sachs, as its new chief executive to succeed Xavier Rolet.
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Most investors have a single goal: to earn the highest financial return. These socially-neutral investors maximize their risk-adjusted returns and would not accept a lower financial return from an investment that also produced social benefits. An increasing number of socially-motivated investors have goals beyond maximizing profits.
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L’avocat Louis Morisset, le patron de l’Autorité des marchés financiers empochait ainsi une rémunération de 420 979 $ au 31 mars 2017.
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Shaw Communications Inc.’s chief marketing officer is leaving the company, the second high-profile executive departure in as many months, as the telecom company restructures while preparing for the departure of a quarter of its work force.
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Crescent Point Energy Corp.’s primary message to shareholders this spring is that in the past year, it has “remained focused on what we can control.”
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Canadian-listed marijuana companies with operations south of the border are applauding Wednesday’s announcement that the former Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is getting into the weed game.
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