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New council aims to boost women on boards

Sarah Raiss believes she didn't get her first job as a director on a large public company board simply because she had a proven track record as a senior executive at TransCanada Corp., or because she took a training course to improve her skills as a ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Talisman Energy Inc.

Base federal regulator in Toronto: Ontario official

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From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dwight Duncan

Pension measures the government unveiled

H ighlights of the federal government's pension reform package announced Tuesday for federally regulated companies: - Companies cannot take “contribution holidays” to skip payments to their pension plans unless the plans have a surplus of at least 5 per ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  27 Oct 2009

Measures the government unveiled

H ighlights of the federal government's pension reform package announced Tuesday for federally regulated companies: - Companies cannot take “contribution holidays” to skip payments to their pension plans unless the plans have a surplus of at least 5 per ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  27 Oct 2009

B.C. fraudsters fined $26-million

R egulators in British Columbia have ordered four people to pay fines totalling $26-million and to also repay $16-million in ill-gotten gains reaped from an aggressive Ponzi scheme that collapsed in 2007. The British Columbia Securities Commission said ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Vaughan

Better profits, bigger pensions

A significant number of chief executive officers take steps to boost earnings in the few years prior to their retirements to increase the size of their pensions, a new study suggests. McGill University Professor Paul Kalyta reviewed Fortune 1000 ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  22 Oct 2009

Hybrid pension plans: a hard sell

When Dave Schaub scans the business headlines, the news about a corporate pension crisis is strikingly familiar. “Where most plans are today is where we were in 1992,” says Mr. Schaub, chairman of the Pulp and Paper Industry Pension Plan (PPIP), which ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Air Canada,  Canadian National,  Canadian Pacific Railway Limited

3 provinces snub securities planning panel

T hree provinces have publicly signalled they are not willing to join a national securities commission by refusing to nominate a representative to a new federal advisory committee helping design the regulator. The federal Finance Department on Thursday ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jim Flaherty,  Iris Evans,  Ian Russell

Members named to securities regulator panel

T en of Canada's provinces and territories have appointed representatives to a new federal committee working to develop a national securities regulator, but Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta remain major holdouts to the federal plan. The federal Finance ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jim Flaherty,  Peter Brown

Quebec acts to aid retirees

T he Quebec government is offering to help Nortel Networks Corp. retirees with a proposal to take over management of their pension plan. Quebec Employment Minister Sam Hamad has pledged to amend provincial regulations to give the pension regulator, the ...

From JANET MCFARLAND, Globe and Mail,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nortel Networks

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