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Nearly 100 scientists from around the world are urging the federal government to prioritize the protection of Canada’s most biodiverse forests as part of its first emissions reduction plan, due by the end of this month. They are also calling on Ottawa to launch a comprehensive review of the way the government quantifies emissions in the forestry sector. 
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THG has turned to boardroom heavyweight Charles Allen to chair the UK ecommerce company in its highest-profile attempt yet to rebuild confidence among investors troubled by its strategy and leadership.
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China’s biggest tech companies are conducting large-scale layoffs this year as they deal with an economic slowdown and Beijing’s regulatory pressure.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed rule changes that would require registrants to include certain climate-related disclosures in their registration statements and periodic reports, including information about climate-related risks that are reasonably likely to have a material impact on their business, results of operations, or financial condition, and certain climate-related financial statement metrics in a note to their audited financial statements.
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Air Canada said on Tuesday it would add 26 extra-long-range versions of the Airbus A321neo aircraft to its fleet as travel demand has jumped after a blip caused by the Omicron coronavirus.
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« Le tribunal a satisfait une action en justice déposée par le premier procureur général adjoint contre la société holding Meta Platforms Inc. portant sur l’interdiction de ses activités sur le territoire russe », a indiqué la cour dans un message sur Telegram.
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Shares of cloud services companies have plunged since last November. Now a private equity put — meaning that these cash rich firms see their shares as cheap — could be emerging. That’s because activist investors and private equity funds are taking action to profit from a rise in the value of these companies.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. trains were halted Sunday morning, stalling global shipments of key manufactured goods and commodities such as fertilizers, after an impasse in contract negotiations between the company and its conductors and engineers.
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Anaplan to Go Private in $9.65 Billion Deal With Thoma Bravo, Shares Jump | Investing News | US NewsShares of Anaplan Inc rose over 26% in premarket trading on Monday after the software maker agreed to be taken private by Thoma Bravo LP for $9.65 billion, in a sign of rising private equity interest in the cloud-based software space.
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Bank of Nova Scotia’s online brokerage, Scotia iTrade, is the latest financial institution to stop selling mutual funds with embedded advisory fees in preparation of coming regulatory changes that will no longer allow online trading platforms to collect trailing commissions.
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Cannabis company Hexo Corp. reported a net loss of $690.3-million in its latest quarter as it recorded $616-million in one-time impairment charges.
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Business leaders from the United States and Canada are again wading into the fray over Line 5, accusing the state of Michigan of dragging its heels to ensure the controversial cross-border pipeline remains in a state of legal limbo even as both countries contend with a looming energy crisis.
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Shareholder activists who are searching for undervalued or underperforming companies could find an exceptionally target-rich environment among the SPACs that completed M&A deals in the last few years. But successful SPACtivism, as it’s now called, won’t be as easy as it looks on the surface. Nothing worth doing is ever that easy.
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Bank of Montreal raised the cash it needs to pay for its proposed $20.5-billion acquisition of Bank of the West on Tuesday by selling $2.7-billion of stock.
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Banks have unexpectedly taken control of more than $2 billion held by one of China Evergrande Group’s key subsidiaries, as the embattled property developer said neither it nor its main listed units could meet an imminent deadline to publish their annual results.
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Berkshire Hathaway on Monday said it agreed to buy insurer Alleghany for about $11.6 billion, as billionaire Warren Buffett’s investment vehicle puts some of its massive cash pile to work in a deal that bolsters its insurance arm.
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It’s a defining moment in a 146-year history, an icon of corporate Japan locked in a battle with hedge funds and activist investors that will come to a head at a key shareholder vote this week.
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Mr. Tachjian is currently director of digital banking at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and will take on responsibility for creating and launching a Canadian-made framework to introduce open banking, according to four sources with knowledge of the appointment.
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From an investor’s perspective, a company’s directors are expected to proactively handle the governance of the corporation as well as govern risks and opportunities related to environmental and social (E&S) issues. In 2021, we saw the scales tip on holding boards accountable for oversight when it came to environmental, social and governance issues, known collectively as ESG. Such a perspective explains why directors are facing investor pressure on E&S, in particular.
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The strategy was meant in part to help the entertainment giant avoid the culture clashes between executives and employees that have plagued many companies in recent years, said people familiar with his thinking.
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The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Elliott Management Corp. was part of a private-equity group in advanced talks to buy Nielsen for roughly $15 billion including debt. Nielsen said Sunday it wouldn’t proceed with a bid that would have valued the company at $25.40 a share, without naming members of the consortium.
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has struck an $11.6-billion deal to buy Alleghany Corp, the owner of reinsurer TransRe, just weeks after the 91-year-old billionaire bemoaned the lack of good investment opportunities.
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Apple Inc. is facing one of the biggest challenges yet to how it controls and profits from the App Store as Europe prepares to complete a new competition law in the coming weeks.
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Auditing giant Deloitte Canada is reversing its mandatory vaccination policy for employees, as more provinces move toward eliminating COVID-19 restrictions and companies begin re-evaluating their mandates.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to share the 2021 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report, which analyzes the governance of the Valley's largest public companies and reviews various matters regarding annual meetings held between January 1 and December 31, 2021.
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