TORONTO – There’s one group of customers that do not seem everything bothered by a series of outbreaks at Chipotle Mexican Grill: teenagers and college-aged youth. How Chipotle is evolving its cooking methods after a devastating E. coli outbreak After an E. coli outbreak that sickened more than 50 people, Chipotle is tweaking its cooking methods.Continue reading. That could signal a ...

A pension risk exchange – a web-based marketplace that aims to bring those defined benefit pension plans looking to purchase de-risking annuities with those that provide such products C is here in Canada. This week saw the unveiling of the Mercer Pension Risk Exchange, which has the modest objective of “revolutionizing the majority annuity market for defined benefit pensions.” The ...

The board of Pivot Technology Solutions, a California-based TSX Venture listed company that recently agreed to a share exchange whereby several insiders would acquire control without having to pay any cash, have now been put on notice by certainly one of its large public shareholders. A few days back when Pivot announced its support for a deal whereby shareholders (apart ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Alberta now to take stock of the devastation wrought through the collapse in oil prices. Trudeau’s rebranding of Canada offers sunshine to Davos, but it’s cold comfort for battered oilpatch Like it or otherwise, he will also get an earful within the spate of anti-energy moves produced by his government that can make a ...

TORONTO  – Canada’s biggest pension funds say they are walking away from increasingly more global infrastructure deals, citing concerns that intense competition for assets has driven valuations too much. Canadian pensions facing down fierce competition to pursue global growth strategy Hong Kong-based executives in the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board first introduced themselves to officials at Postal Savings Bank of ...

Chesapeake Energy Corp. said it doesn’t have plans to seek bankruptcy protection, dismissing a report that destroyed half the U.S. gas driller’s value. Kirkland & Ellis LLP has served as one of Chesapeake’s counsel since 2010 and continues to advise the company because it seeks to further strengthen its balance sheet following its recent debt exchange, Chesapeake said in a ...

OTTAWA – Rates of interest shouldn’t be the only real tool to promote financial stability, said the financial institution of Canada’s Timothy Lane, amid worries of highly indebted consumers and frothy housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver. Lane, deputy governor from the Bank of Canada, designed a speech in Montreal Monday concentrating on monetary policy’s effects on financial stability. The ...

CALGARY – Suncor Energy has announced that just about 73 per cent of Canadian Oil Sands shares and accompanying rights have been tendered to Suncor’s offer. Suncor officials asserted consequently, the organization will be able to make sure that a subsequent acquisition transaction will be completed and Suncor (TSX:SU) will acquire the remainder of the outstanding COS shares. In mid-January, ...