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Investment Executive: Investors are increasingly demanding transparency on corporate lobbying, yet the disclosure in lobbyist registries falls short, suggests a report from the Vancouver-based Shareholder Association for Research & Education (SHARE) released Tuesday.

Vancouver Sun: Opinion article by Kevin Thomas, SHARE’s Director of Shareholder Engagement, on the Canada’s lobbyist registries and our registry scorecard report.

Edmonton Journal: Opinion article co-authored by SHARE’s Executive Director, Andrea Nemtin, Executive Director of the Inspirit Foundation; Mark Sevestre, President of the National Aboriginal Trust Officers Association (NATOA).

Globe and Mail: Opinion article co-authored by SHARE’s Director of Proxy Voting Research and Operations, Jackie Cook and Director of Shareholder Engagement, Kevin Thomas about the corporate governance innovations introduced through shareholder proposals and the regulatory obstacles of filing proposals in Alberta.

Rabble: Canadian companies have a long way to go to advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, a recent SHARE report argues.

Benefits Canada: Publicly traded Canadian businesses in large part are lacking when it comes to reporting their relations with indigenous people, revealed a new report by the Shareholder Association for Research and Education.

Corporate Canada does a relatively poor job of providing disclosure on its engagement with indigenous communities and its handling of indigenous issues, according to a new study from the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE).

SHARE hopes a new report will do for Indigenous issues what has already been done for environmental causes — put them on the boardroom table. “The purpose is to start to delve into the issue of the business role in reconciliation and where investors fit in that,” said Delaney Greig, author of the report for SHARE Canada.

A group of global institutional investors are urging companies to disclose how they manage their global workforces in order to increase shareholder transparency. SHARE is collaborating with ShareAction in the UK on the Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI).

Op-ed co-authored by Hugues Létourneau, SHARE’s Senior ESG Analyst and  Roel Nieuwenkemp, Chair of the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct.