I have failed you, yet again. The folks at CPP Investment Board have refused to answer my simple questions about the execution of their $400 million 2010-vintage vehicle that was to fund Canadian entrepreneurs...
The opposition is fierce, I read, and by last evening there were thousands of pages of letters filed with the various arms of the U.S. government. The goal of the “Volker Rule” is to...
Trees are falling in the forest. The sound you didn’t hear the other day was the fracturing of one of Canada’s best known venture capital firms. One of the teams that had the experience...
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! — Hallelujah Chorus Hymn, Handel’s Messiah The excitement about the changes to Section 116, as disclosed in Minister Flaherty’s...
“There’ll be laughin’ and singin’ and music swingin’, And dancin’ in the streets” — Martha and The Vandellas The thing about this new world is that there are often no secrets in Ottawa, even...
Today’s Throne Speech contained a passage that will excite our friends John Ruffolo, of Deloitte, Stephen Hurwitz, of law firm Choate in Boston and Yaletown’s Steve Hnatiuk (Chair of the CVCA Tax Policy Committee)....
“The government’s Ontario Venture Capital Program is a bust” — Peter Shurman, MPP It has been a few days since representatives from the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association trooped up to present...
On the list of interesting tech plays in Canada, I continue to think Wi-LAN (WIN:TSX) is worthy of interest on a number of levels. Although venture capital funds never played a role, which is...
Whew. That was fast. The CVCA GR team of Exec Director Richard Remillard and I appeared before the Ontario Legislature’s Finance Committee, made our few points, responded to two questions, and promptly left. And...
Where is General Electric (GE:NYSE) putting its new US$100MM++ Advanced Manufacturing Technology & Software Center? Wayne County, Michigan! CEO Jeff Immelt says that GE, among other companies, needs to “recreate” technology centres. Isn’t that...
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