American cannabis company Columbia Care Inc. made its rather unconventional public market debut on Monday, choosing to list on the little-known Toronto-based Aequitas NEO Exchange via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) created by inves…
Australian investment bank Macquarie Group Ltd. is pulling its equities research, sales and syndication business out of Canada, Bloomberg reports. Macquarie’s operations in Canada mainly focus on investment banking with a emphasis on oil and gas, resources …
Tim Hortons is planning to make major changes to its signature Roll Up the Rim contest after acknowledging the 33-year-old promotion “didn’t work” this year. “It’s gotten old,” Tim Hortons president Alex Macedo told the Financial Post on Monday. “No one driv…
The story of the grasshopper and the ant, which has its origins in La Cigale et la Fourmi by Jean de la Fontaine, tells of the preparations an ant makes during the pleasant weather of summer while the grasshopper merrily sings, only to find herself destitute …
When Parq Vancouver, a glimmering waterfront casino, opened amid much to-do in late 2017, few would’ve anticipated that a dirty money crackdown was about to throw the city’s roaring gambling business into turmoil. Vancouver-area casinos for years had been ac…
AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI — PepsiCo Inc has sued four Indian farmers for cultivating a potato variety that the snack food and drinks maker claims infringes its patent, the company and the growers said on Friday. Pepsi has sued the farmers for cultivating the FC5 p…
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today to respond to China’s ban on Canadian canola shipments by taking a number of steps, including pulling hundreds of millions of dollars Ottawa has committed to Beijing’s multilat…
Brent crude rose above US$75 a barrel last Thursday for the first time this year. That’s up from US$51 at the start of 2019, a 47 per cent rise in less than four months. Is oil heading, once again, above US$100 a barrel — where it was in the run up to the 20…
The world economy’s ability to rebound from its recent soft patch will be tested anew this week as data is released from Washington to Beijing. Federal Reserve officials conclude a meeting on Wednesday amid expectations they won’t change their monetary polic…
Over my many years in both capital markets and wealth management, I’ve learned that exclusivity has played a major role in shaping the investment industry and the products being developed and marketed to investors. Not only does exclusivity sell extraordinar…
