The Dominion Bond Rating Service is now big in Europe. Why? Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch have been tarnished by ratings gaffes; DBRS isn’t afraid to make some gutsy calls on sovereign debt; and what Europeans don’t know about Canada’s asset-backed commercial paper debacle won’t hurt them
Canadian manufacturers have had to roll with the punches over the past decade—the high dollar, outsourcing and more. Yet some have emerged leaner and stronger. Six all-star survivors show how it’s done
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed is one of the most popular video game franchises on the planet. The company is French, but half of its employees are Canadian, and rather than license its titles to film and TV producers, Ubisoft wants to boldly go where few developers have dared to venture: the realm of transmedia
Boaz Manor is out of jail after serving a little over a year of a four-year
sentence for the 2005 Portus Alternative Asset Management hedge fund meltdown. So where are the $8.8 million worth of diamonds he bought with investors’ money?
Nouveau capitalists in the People’s Republic binged on Cartier, Louis Vuitton and other luxury brands for a while, but now all that glitz is starting to look gauche
Mainstream politicians in Europe keep preaching austerity and cutbacks. Is it any wonder that voters are turning to loopy fringe parties for alternatives?
Political measures to make housing more affordable usually drive home prices up—not down. That’s why government meddling in the property market doesn’t work
Exit interview: Competition commissioner Melanie Aitken on tackling the big names
By Gordon Pitts
After reinvigorating enforcement
and kicking around some very powerful corporations, Competition Commissioner Melanie Aitken figured her job was done—two years early
