For those of you who missed it, Mark McQueen co-hosted Business Day with Andrew Bell and Kim Parlee yesterday at 3pm. Along with discussing the top business stories of the day, BNN spoke to Dave Shove, U.S. Healthcare Equity Research Group, BMO Capital Markets. You can find the first clip here. LFC
Mark McQueen Co-Hosts BNN
For those of you who missed it, Mark McQueen co-hosted Business Day with Andrew Bell and Kim Parlee yesterday at 3pm. Along with discussing the top business stories of the day, Tony Ma, owner of HomeLife Landmark Realty, joined them to speak about the Canadian market and foreign buyers. You can find the first clip here. LFC
Ontario government puts $250M Emerging Technology Fund on ice
Governmentspeak: when I say 5, I really mean 2. Earlier this morning the McGuinty government informed the local venture capital community that it had decided to put their $250 million Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund on hold, 2 years into its 5 year deployment window. First announced in March 2009, the Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund was
Ottawa tightening mortgage rules — better late than never
News Report: Ottawa tightening mortgage rules; no more 30-year amortizations Since most of my posts wind up being the electronic version of fish wrapping, I hope you don’t mind if I repost something I wrote in December 2009 about the impact of 35 year amortization periods for mortgages, and my advice to return to the
OSC needs to raise bar on Fund disclosure rules
Would it surprise you that the disclosure rules for a $300 million closed end fund Initial Public Offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange are more lax than for a $30 million company IPO? Investment funds are not currently subject to the general continuous disclosure rule, unlike every public company in Canada (under National Instrument 51-102,
