Briefcase: Updates on developing business stories
Alex Mlynek is Canadian Business magazine’s Upfront editor. She has worked at CB since 2002. Prior to joining the magazine she freelanced as a writer and researcher for such publications as MoneySense, Style at Home and Azure. A graduate of Ryerson University’s journalism program, Alex manages Canadian Business’s Rich 100 project, and the Celebrity Power List. In her Briefcase blog Alex provides updates to developing business stories covered in the Briefcase section of Canadian Business magazine.
Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis has a great review in The New Republic of Alice Schroeder's biography of Warren Buffett, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Lewis says as much about Buffett as he does about the book in his analysis. Hat tip to Paul Kedrosky for pointing to ...
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When Margaret Atwood's non-fiction book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was published last fall, the timely contribution to the Massey Lectures really struck a chord with readers all over the world thanks to its prescient subject matter: debt. Now, the National Film Board of Canada has announced it ...
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In his 2008 book The Pirate’s Dilemma (Free Press, $28.99), which will be out in paperback on May 5, author Matt Mason laid out how in some cases companies can learn from those that pirate their intellectual property and profit from that information. In light of today’s conviction of the ...
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EnCana Corp.'s shallow gas infill development project in the Canadian Forces Base Suffield National Wildlife Area in Alberta has hit a snag. The Joint Panel reviewing the oil and gas company's plans to drill three wells decided that "certain key requirements must be met before the proposed project or a ...
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TransCanada Corp.'s plans to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to the Alberta Hub got a bit more concrete recently when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin joined the state's Natural Resources Commissioner and Revenue Commissioner as they formally signed and issued the licence for the project, under the Alaska Gasline ...
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Canada has decided to take its issue with the U.S. country-of-origin-labelling rules (also known as COOL) to the World Trade Organization.
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Oh, jeez. Something else to consider. Public health issues.
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Alpha Group has announced a revised launch date for its new alternative trading system, Alpha Trading Systems, which is now set to go live on Nov. 7, 2008. Its original Sept. 26, 2008 debut was reportedly delayed because of data distribution issues in testing.
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In the July 21, 2008 Briefcase we noted that uranium producer Cameco Corp. told the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in May that leaks of uranium, arsenic and fluorides from Cameco's Port Hope, Ont., conversion facility may have polluted Lake Ontario. Well, the facility, which Cameco voluntarily shut down in July ...
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Philip Morris International Inc. announced it has succeeded in its $30-a-share bid to purchase Toronto-based Rothmans Inc. PMI has received nearly 68%, ok 67.8% to be exact, of outstanding Rothmans common shares.
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