The 2019 SHARE Annual Report highlights how SHARE’s growing network has actively advocated for sustainability, good corporate governance and social inclusion through shareholder engagement, policy advocacy, proxy voting, and peer education.
Two vote results at the Tim Hortons parent company make it clear that the company needs to take action on decent work oversight across its operations, including franchises.
Morningstar – With the pandemic affecting frontline workers at Restaurant Brands International, investors and activists were closely watching the vote on worker rights, which ended up with 37% support, up from 25% the previous year. Shareholder advocacy group SHARE filed the workforce practices proposal on behalf of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation.
As $1 billion in federal funds go to clean up inactive wells, experts are sounding alarm bells about the ‘super experimental’ realm of tailings ponds reclamation and what could be more than $100 billion in unfunded liabilities in the oilsands
This innovative project mobilizes institutional investors as allies with Indigenous peoples to use their capital and their voices to promote positive economic outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
This investor-led collaborative effort is working to establish new legal obligations for corporations operating in Canada to address human rights risks in their global supply chains, and report them to investors.
Canadian billionaire Jim Pattison, the sixth richest man in Canada and owner of the Save-on-Foods grocery chain, says the buck stops somewhere else when it comes to cutting hazard pay for frontline grocery store workers.
La Presse – La valse des millions dans la valeur de rémunération des dirigeants d’entreprises d’origine québécoise et cotées en Bourse s’est poursuivie de plus belle jusqu’à la toute fin de la décennie, constate-t-on dans la recension annuelle effectuée par La Presse.
Financial Post – After a weekend of protests in Canada and the United States against racism and police brutality, the workweek arrived and executives were ready with statements, tweets and LinkedIn posts.
A shareholder of Restaurant Brands International (RBI) is recommending that shareholders withhold their vote for Alexandre Behring, the company’s co-chair. Behring is also the managing partner of 3G Capital, the Brazilian hedge fund that owns a controlling stake in RBI.
TMX management joins Canadian businesses committing to Indigenous economic empowerment
“Strong leadership and an effective system of accountability” needed at the Chartwell board of directors: SHARE
Will today’s climate accounting announcements lead to tomorrow’s ambitious action plans?
Steps towards enshrining “stakeholder capitalism” in law
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