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Six of Canada’s seven largest banks have held their 2008 shareholder meetings, and a brief review of the voting results from shareholder proposals provides some interesting information. Each bank has reported the vote…

Shareholders of Canadian public companies had their first opportunity to gain a “say on pay” at CIBC’s annual general meeting held today, with a reported 44.96% of shareholders voting in support of adopting an annual…

In 2008, shareholders of our ‘big five’ banks will be the first investors in a Canadian public company to consider a proposal requesting an annual non-binding vote on the compensation of top executives.

With the intense season of corporate annual meetings about to get underway, trends in shareholder activism are starting to emerge. According to information available so far, it looks like executive compensation…

How can employment and contracting practices in Canada’s property service sector be improved? This was the question posed to a multi-stakeholder group convened by SHARE, in partnership…

Regulation. That was the word of the day at the Canadian launch of the 5th annual Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report, which took place October 10th in Toronto. Each year, the CDP publishes…

The Shareholder Association for Research and Education and 46 other signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment have called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…

On May 24, the 2007 BC Pension Forum brought together pension leaders and activists in Vancouver to examine the state of pension plan governance, funding and investment. Held jointly by the BC Federation of Labour and SHARE…

Shareholder activists on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border watched warily as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the federal regulator of securities, held hearings in May…

Executive compensation and “say-on-pay” proposals – submitting executive compensation to an annual shareholder advisory vote – have become the top shareholder issues in the 2007 proxy season.