After more than nine months of bargaining, Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers reached a tentative deal last night. The new agreements are for two years rather than the four-year agreements that were negotiated in the past, and 50,000 postal workers will still have to ratify them before they become new contracts. […]
Injured veterans would get lifelong pension, should Justin Trudeau be elected prime minister this fall.
Karl Walsh has been removed from the Ontario Pension Board board of directors and is under investigation by the RCMP.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has given its stamp of approval in the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan's sale of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) and its sports television channels to two of Canada's biggest media companies, BCE and Rogers Communications.
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is dressing up its investments, gaining a majority stake in Norwegian clothing designer Helly Hansen Group AS.
Consulting firm Towers Watson says it has found evidence that employers with a fully engaged workforce tend to have higher profit margins.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is making its largest real estate investment ever, with a $1 billion commitment to the building of two office towers in Australia
Ivanhoe Cambridge, the real estate arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement de Québec, is spending $130 million to acquire an 88.5% interest in a Brazilian shopping centre.
OMERS Private Equity-owned retailer Golf Town is expanding south of the border by acquiring Golfsmith International Holdings Inc., a similar U.S.-based chain, in a deal valued at almost US$100 million.
Manulife Financial Corp. showed a $1.2-billion profit in the first quarter of 2012—a 22% jump from the comparable period of 2011 and a sharp contrast to the $69-million loss it reported in the fourth quarter.