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McKinsey & Co reaches second major U.S. settlement over allegations it helped fuel opioid crisis
FILE PHOTO: The McKinsey & Company logo is displayed at the 54th International Paris Airshow at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, June 21, 2023. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
opinion
Can CI Financial’s MacAlpine redeem the consultant turned CEO concept?
Andrew Willis
opinion
The pain, the gain: Why did it take so long for the world to accept the dangers of OxyContin?
Barry Meier
international business
Hybrid-work trend may wipe out US$800-billion from office property values by 2030, study says
FILE PHOTO: A vacant office building, 5 Hanover Square, is seen in the financial district of New York City, U.S., July 6, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
politics
Government review of McKinsey contracts finds no evidence of political interference
Treasury Board President Mona Fortier rises during Question Period, Thursday, April 27, 2023 in Ottawa. The Treasury Board says it has found no evidence of political interference in the federal contracts with consulting firm McKinsey & Company. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Is the ‘career’ dead? What does that mean for workplaces?
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Morning Update: McKinsey pitched Purdue Pharma Canada on a plan to boost opioid sales in 2014, memo reveals
Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, has acknowledged in the United States that its marketing of the drug was misleading, but it has not made a similar admission in Canada.
politics
McKinsey pitched Purdue Pharma Canada on plan to boost opioid sales in 2014, memo reveals
FILE PHOTO: Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin pills, made by Purdue Pharma LP sit on a counter at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S., April 25, 2017. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
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E-mails show McKinsey involvement in call with Barton while he was Canada’s ambassador to China
Former McKinsey & Company executive Dominic Barton prepares to testify at a committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Blair Gable
politics
Ottawa to join B.C. class action accusing McKinsey of ‘reckless’ opioid marketing
Visitors walk past the US global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 28, 2023. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Ottawa needs to kick its consultants habit
Konrad Yakabuski
politics
Internal audits of McKinsey contracts raise fairness, transparency concerns
Mona Fortier, President of the Treasury Board shuffles her papers as she waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates in Ottawa, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. The Treasury Board  says internal audits of contracts with McKinsey & Company show departments didn't' consistently follow some administrative requirements and procedures. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
politics
Auditor-General to launch review of federal government’s ArriveCan app
A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the app in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. Giordano Ciampini/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Auditor-General to probe federal government contracts with McKinsey
Auditor general of Canada Karen Hogan holds a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Canada's auditor general will review the contracts awarded by the federal government to McKinsey & Company. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
Canada’s immigration target has nothing to do with McKinsey or its former head, Dominic Barton, says Immigration Minister
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser rises during Question Period, Thursday, February 9, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Evening Update: For Ukraine’s power workers, keeping the lights on is a life-and-death struggle under Russian fire
— EMBARGO: NO ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, WEB POSTING OR STREET SALES BEFORE 12:01 A.M. ET ON FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2023. NO EXCEPTIONS FOR ANY REASONS —Firefighters extinguish a blaze after a Russian shell landed near a shopping mall in a suburb of Kherson, Ukraine, Feb. 3, 2023. Being the leader of Kherson may feel more like a curse than an honor, but one woman isn’t giving up, even though the Russians are sitting just across the river and shelling her city nearly every hour. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
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Federal Comptroller-General rebuked for advising ‘be careful what you write down’ in McKinsey contract review
The Peace Tower and Centre Block of Parliament Hill is framed through the window of the Indigenous Peoples Space in Ottawa on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
Minister asks Procurement Ombudsman to conduct independent review of McKinsey outsourcing
Public Services and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek appears at a House of Commons standing committee on government operations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. The committee is looking at contracts awarded to McKinsey & Co. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
Politics Briefing: Ottawa withdrawing controversial amendments to gun legislation
The gun room of Ellwood Epps Sporting Goods in Orillia, Ontario. December 22, 2022. (Photo by Tannis Toohey for the Globe and Mail)
opinion
In sea of consulting contract problems, the Conservatives only dream of their whale
Campbell Clark
opinion
The rise of the Department of McKinsey
The Editorial Board
opinion
Not just McKinsey: How governments learned to stop worrying and love consultants
Cal Bricker
politics
Barton says he had nothing to do with increase in federal government contracts awarded to McKinsey
Former McKinsey & Company executive Dominic Barton prepares to testify at a committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Dominic Barton says he had nothing to do with federal contracts awarded to McKinsey
Dominic Barton waits to appear as a witness at the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 in Ottawa. The committee is looking into consulting contracts awarded to McKinsey & Company. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
politics
MPs call on McKinsey to disclose clients to dispel concern about conflicts of interest
A researcher testifying before a federal committee on the rise in government contracts awarded to McKinsey and Company said the focus on McKinsey is a distraction. Amanda Clarke, an associate professor in public administration, told MPs that the committee's study should focus on the public service's reliance on consulting firms rather than on one specific firm. The Peace Tower is seen on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 12, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Morning Update: New federal long-term care standards won’t be mandatory
Residents at the Oakcrossing long term care home in London, Ont., on Mar 24, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
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Ottawa contracts comprise up to 10 per cent of McKinsey Canadian revenue
The Peace Tower and Centre Block of Parliament Hill is framed through the window of the Indigenous Peoples Space in Ottawa on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
Dominic Barton to appear Wednesday before committee reviewing spike in federal outsourcing to McKinsey & Co.
Canada's Ambassador to China Dominic Barton makes his way to a committee room to appear before the House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations in Ottawa, Wednesday, February 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
politics
MPs approve hearings into McKinsey contracts
The Peace Tower and Centre Block of Parliament Hill is framed through the window of the Indigenous Peoples Space in Ottawa on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
Federal committee will probe government contracts with McKinsey
The Parliament Hill Peace Tower is framed in an iron fence on Wellington Street in Ottawa on Thursday, March 12, 2020. A 19-year-old Ottawa man has been arrested for allegedly posting numerous threatening tweets targeted at Parliament Hill, the Department of National Defence and two embassies. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
McKinsey awarded more than $100-million in contracts since 2015, officials say in new update
The Peace tower is seen on Parliament Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 in Ottawa. The fall session of Parliament begins today and is scheduled to sit until December. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
politics
Trudeau asks ministers Jaczek, Fortier to review federal outsourcing contracts with McKinsey
This photograph taken on April 12, 2022, shows a sign of US-based McKinsey & Company management consulting firm in Geneva. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
politics
Opposition parties planning investigation into spike in outsourcing contracts to McKinsey under Liberals
(FILES) This file photo taken in Toulouse, southern France on April 12, 2022, shows screens displaying the logo of US-based McKinney & Company management consulting firm. - Searches were carried out on December 13, 2022 at the Paris headquarters of the McKinsey consultancy and those of Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party and the Renaissance funding association, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office said on December 14, 2022, confirming a report in Le Parisien. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
The Trudeau government seems awfully cozy with McKinsey – and that demands scrutiny
Konrad Yakabuski
opinion
Going back to the office full-time comes at the cost of inclusion and diversity
Mary Ann Yule
world
Macron says 2017 campaign accounts checked and cleared as prosecutors widen McKinsey probe
(FILES) This file photograph taken on April 12, 2022, shows a sign of US-based McKinsey & Company management consulting firm in Geneva. - The National Financial Prosecutor (PNF) opened two investigations in October 2022 for suspicions of "favoritism" and on the "conditions of intervention of consultancy cabinets" of the 2017 and 2022 electoral campaigns of France's President Emmanuel Macron, including the firm McKinsey. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)