Winners announced at the second virtual IR Magazine Awards – Canada 2021.
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The Canadian Investor Relations Institute's (CIRI's) 2021 Annual Conference will be held virtually over three afternoons –June 14, 15 and 16. Building on last year's success, this virtual format will include all the elements that make the Annual Conference a hallmark event for Canadian IROs.
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When MSCI began its ESG research in 1972, it carved out a path that changed the way we think about investing.
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I spent about a decade of my life writing about corporate accounting before I began focusing on sustainability and sustainable finance. In between all the conversations on accounting for stock options and leases, one megatrend in corporate accounting beat them all: the rise of intangible assets.
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Now that the project has been shelved, Ottawa and the provinces can focus on improving securities regulation, experts say.
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CIRI submitted comments to Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada on their Consultation Paper regarding upcoming changes to the CBCA, specifically on mandatory non-binding say-on-pay votes.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have published their Report on Sixth Staff Review of Disclosure Regarding Women on Boards and in Executive Officer Positions (Report), which tracks metrics between 2015 and 2020 for 610 TSX-listed companies whose fiscal years ended between December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2020.
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The Ontario government's 2021 budget was delivered on March 24, 2021. Although there was no doubt that the focus of the budget would be on the ongoing health concerns and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, market participants wondered whether it would address the recommendations in the final report of the Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce (Taskforce) released in January 2021. The government has confirmed its intention to move forward with a handful of the Taskforce's recommendations – including some controversial ones – but we will have to wait and see which of the others will be adopted (and in what form) and which may be left on the cutting room floor.
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