If a TSX topping bid is coming, it's time
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...
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Potash sails through $145
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...
Prepare for the "Canada Discount" bogeyman
News item: Industry Minister Tony Clement turns down BHP bid for Potash Get ready for the onslaught. The naive, yet well-meaning, free-marketers among us will unleash a series of seemingly irrefutable, cogent arguments over...
Playing with political fire on Potash file
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...
Mass confusion in ventureland
Is the venture model “broken”? Do venture returns really “suck”? Is there a “new way” to grow innovation companies? Can public servants do a better job of picking winners vs. losers than private sector...
Letter of Credit would solve hollow "Net Benefit" rule
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...
BDC makes further cuts to VC team
BDC Annual Report Review Part 3 Oy-yoy-yoy! Remember when I reported on cuts to the venture capital team at the Business Development Bank of Canada (see prior post “What happened to the VC $...
Venture Capital advances drop 33% at BDC in fiscal 2010
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....
An idea for McKinsey & Co.
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...
Cabinet must tread warily on Globalive appeal
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...
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