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As the government-hired watchdog over your money, Kevin Page is tough, tenacious, outspoken. No wonder some in Ottawa want him muzzled.
BERLIN - Negotiations for the sale of General Motors Corp.'s German unit Adam Opel GmbH to Canadian autoparts maker Magna are progressing well and ...
TORONTO - Fraud artists are finding it easier amid a battered economy to entrap marks with dubious offers once easily dismissed as scams, and ...
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's government has taken control of the country's third largest bank - Banco de Venezuela.
The government agreed in May ...
TORONTO - The union representing 2,500 Bell installation and repair technicians in Ontario said Friday the workers have voted to accept a new five-year ...
TORONTO - Net redemptions of mutual funds for June were estimated to be between $1.3 billion and $1.8 billion, according to the Investment Funds ...
TORONTO - General Motors Corp. confirmed Friday it has received a non-binding offer from a Chinese concern for its Opel division.
GM Europe spokesman Christopher ...
MONTREAL - Talks between Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) and the union representing its mechanics and technical staff will likely continue through the weekend as the ...
TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
Toronto Stock Exchange (10,288.01, up ...
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market ended the week flat as investors weighed weak oil prices with good news out of the base metals ...
MONTREAL - Adaltis Inc. (TSX: ADS) received court protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act on Friday, providing some hope that the life sciences ...
LONDON - PVM Oil Associates, the world's biggest over-the-counter oil brokerage, says it lost nearly $10 million this week because of unauthorized trades that ...
ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to create a $10 billion pipeline that would ship gas across the Saharan ...
LONDON - British Airways PLC announced Friday it will ground aircraft, slash seat numbers and postpone taking delivery of a dozen new Airbus A380 ...
CALGARY - Crescent Point Energy Corp. says its expects its 2009 production to average the equivalent of 42,000 barrels of oil per day, and ...
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty now expects Canada's economic recovery to be modest and for job losses to mount into 2010 even after ...
Liar’s Poker author Michael Lewis has a great review in The New Republic of Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Lewis says as much about Buffett as he does about the book in his analysis. Hat tip to Paul Kedrosky for pointing to the review. Also worth a read: Canadian [...]
I had a conversation earlier today in Montreal with Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. (GE), who was pretty blunt in his assessment of the so-called Buy American provision in President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill. “I think it’s terrible,” Immelt said, before speaking at the International Economic Forum of the Americas here. [...]
Most pension plans in Canada are restricted by the Pension Benefits Standards Act of 1985 from owning more than 30% of the votes attached to shares issued by a public company. The rationale, among other things, is to prevent pension plans from controlling large chunks of the Canadian economy. This restriction has come under question lately, a [...]
I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to post much for a while but I am very excited to let you know about the new web series that launched today: Conversations about Corporate Social Responsibility. The first episode features a conversation with James Temple, Manager of Corporate Donations at Direct Energy. James provides a [...]
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