The debt and equity holders of Wind Mobile have to be feeling pretty good on this holiday Monday about where things are headed. Last week, the Globe and Mail reported that a Canadian private...
TSX / LSE Merger Part 18 Wouldn’t a “Made in Canada” TSX solution be perfect right about now? When the Globe broke the story that some of Canada’s banks were trying to find a...
The world didn’t end, after all It was less than a month ago that BNN TV Squeeze Play co-host Rudyard Griffiths asked me a fair question: why shouldn’t Potash (POT:TSX) shareholders be able to...
News report: Ottawa wary of Potash takeover When I read the views of unnamed sources in my morning newspaper, it can be fun to try to guess where they work, and even who they...
How timely this is, Potash (POT:TSX) watchers (see prior post “Is there a message for Potash in NB Power vote?” Sept 29-10)? Just three years after acquiring Hamilton’s Stelco steel mill, U.S. Steel has...
If pressed, most federal Members of Parliament will tell you that the Business Development Bank of Canada’s role is to support early stage companies that don’t have sufficient access to traditional sources of capital....
For fear that the Business Development Bank of Canada hasn’t tasked their management consulting team at McKinsey with stakeholder meetings in relation to the “BDC Venture Capital” strategic review currently underway (see prior post...
The decision seems so simple for Industry Minister Tony Clement: if you believe in free markets, one needs to overturn the CRTC’s decision to block would-be wireless entrant Globalive from rolling out a national...
Some HR coaches will tell you that if you start doing a job, eventually someone will just give it to you. That must be what Ericsson was thinking when it offered jobs to 680...
Most investors aren’t thinking this way right now, but allocating capital to support the gems in an existing portfolio makes sense, even in a recession. You have to give Industry Minister Tony Clement credit...
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