British businesses must crack down on excessive pay for bosses and improve boardroom diversity to restore public trust after scandals at Sports Direct and collapsed retailer BHS, MPs have warned. Among their wide-ranging recommendations, the MPs’ committee called for a ban on long-term investment plans, complex multi-year pay deals that ... Read More »
The leaders of some the biggest technology firms in the U.S. have expressed dismay over President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, even as some of those companies are in hot water for previously supporting the administration. The immigration issue is especially problematic for Silicon Valley, ... Read More »
Turkish riot police have raided the offices of 51 businesses and detained dozens of executives the government accuses of aiding an exiled cleric blamed by PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan for a failed coup. The raids were part of a sweepinggovernment crackdown in which 17,800 people, including journalists, academics, military personnel and ... Read More »
A federal crackdown on tax cheats in Vancouver’s sizzling housing market — which is acting like a flame to speculators, real estate predators and foreign cash flow — has critics calling on B.C. to demand Ottawa do more to help combat the “out-of-control” real estate market. “It’s not clearcut to say that ... Read More »
