Alberta and Quebec join forces to fight Ottawa’s proposed single securities regulator
By Max Fawcett
It’s not often that Alberta finance minister Ted Morton praises Jean Chretien and criticizes Stephen Harper in the same year, much less the same speech, but that’s what happened Tuesday at the Royal Glenora Club in Edmonton. Morton, who was joined by his Quebec counterpart, Raymond Bachand, at a breakfast organized by the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, reiterated his unconditional rejection of the federal government’s plan to replace the patchwork of provincial securities regulators with a single overarching organization.
Stelmach no doubt frustrated when his ministers undermine him
By Paul Marck
Premier Ed Stelmach must feel a bit like the guy who sweeps up behind the elephants at the circus parade. He does a good job, wins applause for his effort, but never knows when the next mess is going to land in front of him. And so it was this week with government and industry’s ham-handed dealing with the Schindler report on oil sands pollutants in the Athabasca River.
Changes aplenty in Alberta’s executive suites in 2009 introduced new faces to the province’s boardrooms. But how do companies know they have the right person for the job? (more…)
One of the pieces of data we collect for the V100 is the year when the company was founded. We wondered, how old (or young) are Alberta’s top businesses? First off we wanted to look at the companies with roots. Below are all the companies that were founded before 1960. Behold the grey eminences of the V100. (more…)
In the midst of Alberta’s difficult 2009 fiscal year, the revenue posted overall in the Venture 100 can be overlooked by revenue declines in individual companies. The prevalence of revenue declines across the V100 charts casts a particularly bearish picture of Alberta’s 100 largest companies. (more…)
