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One ruling, three opinions

The OSC’s intervention in the HudBay-Lundin deal changed TSX takeover rules for everybody. But that’s just the half of it When it comes to precedents, HudBay Minerals’ bid for Lundin Mining in late...

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Beyond compliance

Public companies and their boards have been through a multi-year grind of corporate governance reform. And in the wake of the financial meltdown, they’re about to start another round. More and better...

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Enough with the oversight

Canada’s corporate directors want more of a stake in strategy Is the idea of a “compliance board” that spends too many meetings ticking boxes instead of reviewing corporate strategy—and is thereby...

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Anatomy of an American hire

Canadian banks are bulking up on once-untouchable U.S. recruits. Walter Owens is one of them It was June 2008 when Walter Owens got his first phone call from a TD Bank recruiter. The bank was looking...

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First we take Manhattan

Back in 2008, when the financial crisis was at its most intense and the market collapse most severe, U.S. banks and financial institutions were going cheap. JPMorgan Chase started things off, famously...

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Review: Different—Escaping the competitive herd

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd. Succeeding in a world where conformity reigns but exceptions rule By Youngme Moon Crown Business, Random House April 2010 Here’s a guarantee. Unlike many...

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Test case

What a difference a year makes. It’s late February and Allen Palmiere sits comfortably in his downtown Toronto office, where he is president and CEO of Adriana Resources (TSX-V: ADI), a junior mining...

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Market remaker

Though its track record is short, the one thing critics, competitors and customers should have learned by now is not to take Alpha Trading Systems Inc. lightly. As fall begins, the bank-backed...

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Frank’s last payday

On the morning of May 6, 2010, the first quasi-official day of Frank Stronach’s farewell tour as controlling shareholder of Magna International (TSX:MG), the news was dominated by Greece’s economic...

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How to land a monster

Sometimes the deal of the year actually is a long time coming. Such was the case with Kinross Gold Corp.’s $7.1-billion mid-summer bet on Red Back Mining Inc., which, through the end of November, was...

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Putting women in the picture

When Mary-Alice Vuicic met with the chair of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., Thomas O’Neill, at his posh Toronto country club for their first mentoring session over breakfast, she wasn’t sure what his...

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Change or be changed

In August of 2008, consumers of Maple Leaf Foods Inc. deli meat products began showing up at emergency wards throughout the country. By the time the contagion had run its course, 23 Canadians had died...

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Directorship U

By now it’s well understood that director education programs inCanada, like most of their counterparts stateside, were born out of the corporate ashes of Enron. The infamous 2001 U.S. corporate...

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Is there an alternative to director independence?

By David W. Anderson Ever-tightening rules for director independence are hard at work in a full-on effort to banish conflicts of interest from the boardroom. And, in light of front-page board behaviour...

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Measuring up: trends in director evaluation

Interview by Cooper Langford Q&A with Patrick O’Callaghan on the state of individual director evaluations in Canada Individual director evaluations have become a priority for the majority of...

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The decision

Since day one as TransCanada’s new CEO in 2010, Russ Girling’s agenda has been dominated by the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline—a $7-billion shipping lane to move Alberta oilsands oil to Texas. Come...

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Learning to love the dragon

FELIX CHEE FEELS misunderstood—and pulled in a lot of different directions. Sure, Chee understands what it is to be busy. As the former chief investment officer at Manulife Financial and head of the...

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Two teams, many audiences, the same message

If you think of the way your company manages corporate communications and investor relations, does the following anonymous account sound familiar? I am director of corporate communications and manage a...

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But is it art?

On the surface, it looks decidedly simple, something so straightforward that you don’t give it a second thought. Even its name—“one-click”—suggests an easy-to-use approach. Say you decide to purchase...

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Putting risk in its place

WHEN YOU’VE SPENT close to two decades as a CEO, held more than a dozen positions on high-level boards, and have board or executive experience in four distressed situations, you’ve earned the right to...

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