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Free licensed child care. It sounds like a parents’ dream. But look a little closer at the Government of Ontario’s recently announced plan to deliver free licensed child care for preschoolers, and flaws emerge. Beyond the arguably late starting age of 2½ years, this initiative could have unwelcome consequences due to its limited accessibility and its potential to create excess demand for licensed preschool care.
Many in the profession are worried that too few women work in economics at senior level. But only recently has the source of much of the problem been identified: women are far less likely than men to study economics, let alone pursue a career in it.
The document indicates Daoust was furious his own government wanted him to say publicly he agreed with the sale by Quebec's investment agency, when he did not
A significant portion of the U.S. corporate expense budget is allocated to corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending. Given its importance, there has been a long-standing debate on its desirability from shareholders’ perspective. Several studies posit that CSR creates shareholder value through maximizing stakeholder value, a result known as “doing well by doing good” (Edmans, 2011; Ferrell, Liang, and Renneboog, 2016)...
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Three North Texas companies topped a list of Texas businesses with the most diversity among their executives and governance leaders.
The former chief financial officers of Google Inc. and BlackBerry Ltd. are joining Montreal-based venture capital firm iNovia Capital.
Cannabis company The Hydropothecary Corp. has signed a “commercial agreement” with the Société des alcools du Québec to supply an estimated 200,000 kilograms of marijuana to the province’s recreational market over five years.
The Chinese ambassador to Canada downplayed some of the perceived risk around the proposed $1.5-billion takeover of Aecon Group Inc. Tuesday, saying takeovers by Chinese state-owned enterprises should be treated equally to those by other foreign firms.
Canadian pot stocks, most with little or no revenue, are quickly becoming among the most actively traded stocks on the country’s exchanges, topping blue-chip companies such as BCE Inc. and Manulife Financial Corp.
Of all the obstacles standing in the way of a national securities regulator, language may be the real deal-breaker. The fear that a Toronto-based national regulator would pay only lip service to regional differences – especially language-related ones – remains the biggest reason Quebec refuses to sign on to the creation of a single securities authority.
The Facebook founder clearly knows the difference between chatting up millennials and being roasted over the flames by senators
This post summarizes and paraphrases comments shared at a roundtable on executive compensation that CII organized on Jan. 9, 2018, in Denver, CO. Participants included representatives of asset owners, asset managers, employee unions, corporations and think tanks.
Following the US announcement of new, high tariffs on imports, China is answering the Trump administration by applying its own series of tariffs. In this article, the author identifies the list of products that each country will be targeting, going beyond purely trade issues as each attempts to weaken the other.
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Following the corporate corruption scandals of the early 2000s, then-Securities and Exchange Commission chairman William Donaldson said determining the company’s moral DNA “should be the foundation on which the Board builds a corporate culture based on a philosophy of high ethical standards and accountability.”
Blockchain is going to put pressure on broker commissions and fundamentally change the way the broker channel does business over the next three to five years, says a past Marsh Canada national executive and management committee member.
Netflix is facing an investor lawsuit that alleges board members “rigged” top executives’ bonuses to pay them millions regardless of how well the company performed.
Lawyers and academics generally have a dim view of dual-class share structures. When Snap Inc., a technology-based social media company, was preparing for its initial public offering (IPO) in early 2017, for example, CalPERS and many other prominent institutional investors harshly criticized the company’s move to create another share class with no voting rights.
As institutional investors and activists continue to focus on board composition, we’re seeing increased interest in the board evaluation process: How are boards using their evaluation process to improve performance and align board composition with strategy? Are directors giving enough consideration to board refreshment?
A pair of announcements this week from a small cannabis company backed by industry powerhouse Aphria Inc. point to increasing interest in South America from Canadian marijuana companies.
A group representing about half of Canada’s Tim Hortons franchisees has vowed to do everything in its power to assist an outspoken member whose restaurant licence renewal was denied amid ongoing tensions with the fast food giant.
A public transparency system could deliver meaningful benefits to retail investors, but only if properly designed
Mining companies need to disclose more information ahead of earnings releases to offset volatility in their share prices, says RBC Dominion Securities Inc. analyst Dan Rollins.
S’il estime que les irrégularités entourant certains prêts hypothécaires vendus par la Banque Laurentienne à un tiers acheteur ont été surmédiatisées, le président et chef de la direction de l’institution, François Desjardins, reconnaît néanmoins avoir sous-estimé la réaction du marché.
Mark Zuckerberg va de nouveau mercredi affronter les questions de parlementaires américains sur les divers scandales qui empoisonnent Facebook, après avoir déjà passé cinq heures devant les sénateurs mardi, ne cédant rien sur le fond, mais laissant certaines interrogations sans réponses.
Bien qu’il ne soit qu’une nation commerçante de taille moyenne, le Canada fut l’un des principaux artisans de la construction du système commercial multilatéral que nous connaissons aujourd’hui.
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