Here comes the bill
Posted by Anna Guy in Business on 08 11th, 2010 | No Comments
As it is wedding season, there have been announcements of engagements and weddings throughout the offices here at the Canadian Business Journal.
Seeing as it’s hard for us to not turn most conversations to the topic of business or industry, there has been a great deal of debate over the value of the industry that is getting married.
It starts before it even begins. The engagement ring industry goes to great lengths to sell us diamond rings, with millions of dollars being spent on rings every year.
The...
BP fires CEO. How convenient.
Posted by admin in Business on 07 28th, 2010 | No Comments
When I heard that BP fired its CEO, Tony Hayward, I couldn’t help but think it was pretty tricky, except not that tricky at all.
Now that the cap is covering the leak and the problem is “fixed”, BP can put all the blame on Hayward and then move forward with a new CEO, as if to say “oil spills will no longer be a problem, now that that idiot Hayward is gone.”
Had they fired Hayward when Obama recommended they do it, which was almost two months ago, the new CEO would have...
Take a page from Branson’s book.
Posted by Jen@CBJ in In the news on 07 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Virgin Mobile is stepping it up in the customer service department. This summer, some Virgin Mobile members may get an extra surprise with a special hand delivery for replacement phones.
Sir Richard Branson personally made one of the first deliveries in Toronto to unsuspecting Virgin Mobile Member Adam Morrison. “I don’t even know what to say right now. I can’t believe you guys did this!” said Morrison. “I got my new phone right away and Richard Branson is here. He’s...
CP to go for-profit?
Posted by Jen@CBJ in In the news on 07 5th, 2010 | No Comments
After nearly a century, The Canadian Press news service struck a tentative deal to transform itself into a for-profit company from an industry cooperative, the Globe and Mail reported.
According to an internal memo obtained by Canwest News Service, CP’s three biggest members — CTVglobemedia, which owns the Globe and Mail, Torstar Corp., which runs the Toronto Star, and Gesca, which owns La Presse — would become equal partners in a for-profit entity, to be called Canadian Press Enterprises.
The...
CSR question
Posted by Jen@CBJ in In the news on 06 29th, 2010 | No Comments
Walmart Canada announced today that its recent Children’s Miracle Network fundraising campaign raised a record $5.4 million to support Canadian children’s healthcare. Money raised will help fund critical hospital equipment, ambulatory-care services, research, education programs, and specialty services at children’s hospitals across Canada.
This is obviously great news. As is the company’scommitments to green business practices.
Question: Does local CSR cancel out practices...
EARTHQUAKE!!!
Posted by Jen@CBJ in In the news on 06 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment
The GTA just experienced an earthquake! The first of my life. We’re okay. But I haven’t run faster down a flight of stairs in my life.
Get Off Oil!
Posted by admin in In the news on 06 21st, 2010 | No Comments
An expert and former oil worker from the U.S. Gulf is visiting Toronto today with a message for the Ontario Government: use the occasion of the tragic BP oil spill to chart a pathway off oil. Jerome Ringo will be speaking this evening at an event hosted by Environmental Defence called Bridging the Gulf: From Oil Spills to Clean Energy.
“If Ontario wants to help us down in Louisiana, it can do so by helping itself at the same time,” said Mr. Ringo. “We must all stop sending our money...
Did he really just say that?
Posted by Sara Kopamess in Business on 06 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Back in April, when George Media attended the G8/G20 Business Summit in Gatineau (coverage can be found at www.cbj.ca) I witnessed some of the most enlightened business leaders in the world present the reasons to do business, together. It took me some time to let the real impacts of this event sink in, but alas, here we are and I’m really coming to grips with the messages conveyed at the Summit—just in time for the Leaders’ Summits later this month.
Along with other politicians, Canadian Prime...
Did he really just say that?
Posted by admin in In the news on 06 7th, 2010 | No Comments
Back in April, when George Media attended the G8/G20 Business Summit in Gatineau (coverage can be found at www.cbj.ca) I witnessed some of the most enlightened business leaders in the world present the reasons to do business, together. It took me some time to let the real impacts of this event sink in, but alas, here we are and I’m really coming to grips with the messages conveyed at the Summit-just in time for the Leaders’ Summits later this month.
Along with other politicians, Canadian...
Canada serves as international model: A panel with Beatty, Manley and Harper
Posted by admin in Business on 05 28th, 2010 | No Comments
(Picking up where we left off from the G8/G20 Business Summit)
Concluding the morning session at the G8/G20 Business Summit was a panel discussion with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, hosted by President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Honourable Perrin Beatty, and Honourable John Manley, President and CEO, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
The panelists, including Harper, were candid with eachother, having all met in the House of Commons at some point. During a lighter part...
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