Three years ago this past December, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police hosted the official opening of its Vancouver integrated market enforcement team, the stock market…
Nova Scotians celebrated Canada Day last year with fireworks over the issue of gasoline regulation. And even though the uproar has since quieted down, a…
Our street has been a construction zone for what seems like years. Well, for several months, at least. First, they put in new water mains,…
Putting up a family Christmas tree has been no easy task for this writer
The CSA should waste no time implementing a robust mobility registration exemption
New tax will hurt energy trusts
But Toronto businesses also want Mayor Miller to reduce their taxes
Re: “High costs of GIF contract,” Letter to the Editor by Doug Corner (IE, Mid-November 2006).Doug Corner has confused several Manulife Financial Corp. products and…
Only $95 million remains before the Canadian Museum for Human Rights becomes a reality
“Speed kills” may have made an effective traffic safety slogan back in the ’70s, but the opposite is true in the financial markets where, it’s…
The Tories have done their best to appeal to their core base — to the exclusion of everyone else
Spiralling costs, manpower shortage keep projects in check
Famed Newfoundland entrepreneur left his mark by founding the world’s largest helicopter firm
The few thousand extra dollars generated from the trades will help keep Prairie farms going
Re: “Couple aims to leave a significant estate,” by Catherine Harris (IE, Mid-October 2006).This article dealt with a 50-year-old couple who have $5 million in…
Plenty of hot air has been expended on the income trust issue, and there’s surely more to come. But if there’s one unqualified good that…
After hedge fund fraud, regulations still remain at the discussion stage
Nova Scotia’s film industry, the fourth-largest in Canada, brings in more than $100 million
Jim Flaherty has sent out clear signals about future fiscal policy, but no one seems to have heard
A kitchen sink mishap sends this writer on a home-repair mission
The new investor education program provides no assurance that anything will change
It is a fine canadian tradition — getting ready for hockey season. Making sure the skates are sharpened and all the pieces of equipment are…
Quebec has the country’s highest taxes, second-largest bureaucracy and heaviest public debt. So, perhaps it’s not so surprising that a pro-vincial business federation would propose…
The battle over bond market transparency highlights why securities regulators must do more to get input from investors.The market for bonds has never been as…
Make health your No. 1 priority
If I could wish you and your families one thing in 2007, it would be good health. May you have a year in which family…