Gandhinagar, India | Reuters –– Canada is keen to boost its business ties with India and is moving forward with attempts to seal a trade pact, Canada’s minister of infrastructure […] Read more
Canada keen to boost ties, seal trade pact with India
Cara to buy St-Hubert restaurant, food businesses
Reuters — Cara Operations, owner of the Swiss Chalet casual dining chain and Harvey’s burger outlets, said Thursday it will buy St-Hubert BBQ, one of Quebec’s largest casual dining chains, for […] Read more
CP revises hostile bid for Norfolk Southern, again
Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway slammed railway Norfolk Southern on Wednesday, accusing it of misleading investors even as CP executives rolled out a new bid with increased shareholder protections to […] Read more
CP revises offer for Norfolk Southern, rebuffed again
Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) on Tuesday revised its bid to buy U.S. railroad operator Norfolk Southern Corp, less than a week after its prior $28.4 billion proposal was […] Read more
Glencore reported in talks on agriculture assets
Reuters — Glencore is in talks with a Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund and China’s state-backed grain trader COFCO, along with Canadian pension funds, to sell a stake in its […] Read more
CPP buying company’s farmland portfolio in Saskatchewan
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) said Thursday it had agreed to acquire the assets of Assiniboia Farmland, a fund that owns and manages a large portfolio of farmland […] Read more
Maple Leaf Foods explores sale Of Canada Bread stake
Maple Leaf Foods said on Monday it may sell its controlling stake in Canada Bread Company as it determines whether to exit the bakery business and focus on meat products. […] Read more
Strike looms as talks between union, CN break down
Talks between the railroad workers’ union and Canadian National Railway have broken down, raising the possibility of a strike or a lockout by Oct. 28 at the country’s largest railroad […] Read more
Proxy fight brewing for Agrium board
The drawn out battle between Agrium and its largest shareholder Jana Partners looked set for a bruising proxy battle on Tuesday, a day after the activist hedge fund rejected Agrium’s […] Read more
Agrium pressured for change in proxy battle
Hedge fund Jana Partners on Monday escalated its effort to overhaul fertilizer and ag retail giant Agrium, by nominating a slate of board candidates to buttress its demand that the […] Read more
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