Barbara Shecter

Veteran business correspondent at National Post/Financial Post. Coverage includes: finance, pensions, regulation, governance, ESG. [email protected]

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The Great Correction comes to Wayne Gretzky's hometown.

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The United States dropped its recommendation for all children to be vaccinated against influenza, rotavirus, meningococcal disease, and hepatitis A, sparking warnings from public health experts https://t.co/u6Wq405AyY

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Toronto-Dominion Bank’s money-laundering crisis makes succession question messy and complicated. #TD #AML #SUCCESSION #DOJ https://t.co/1NkqsyWDPA via @

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BREAKING# Bank of Canada warns nation's renters showing signs of financial strain https://t.co/cpeoT4D3vP

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Capital gains tax changes could lead to 'brain drain,' harm productivity as some fear tech exodus https://t.co/PmfNWkQ9h4 via @

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US Fed’s about-face on stringent capital rules could leave Canadian banks uncompetitive, warns Royal Bank of Canada CEO Dave McKay @federalreserve @RBC #banks #Capital #Basel #loans #lending
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Tighter capital rules could leave Canadian banks uncompetitive, RBC's McKay warns https://t.co/2wcDZCao0g via @

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Peter Aceto was going to be the cannabis industry's fall guy. Now he's making a career comeback https://t.co/xlag6IV2d6 via @

[Global National @GlobalNational]

AI ‘hallucinated’ fake legal cases allegedly filed to B.C. court in Canadian first https://t.co/9fPcdYglFU

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OSC's top enforcement official to leave at end of February https://t.co/5UZmOeViSI

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Scotiabank CEO shifts focus to North America, vows 'significant' change in mindset #banks #strategy #Canada @scotiabank https://t.co/YEAoJJFnTH via @

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

This was a very strange strategy choice by the province. They based their entire pitch on a number everyone knew was not credible (that’s why Kenney and Toews locked the report up for years) instead of on any other reason to create our own plan. Did they want it to fail?

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What is FINTRAC and why is it fining some of Canada's biggest banks? https://t.co/6xjUIugLZV via @

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A relatively inexpensive program in California schools helped improve students' reading ability more than costlier options, a new study found, potentially offering a new tool to educators as they look to help students recover from pandemic setbacks. https://t.co/LByBgIUSh6

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Are Canada's big banks just playing it safe or is there more trouble ahead? https://t.co/1bd1f9aOOc via @

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Bank of America pays $12 mln fine for misreporting mortgage data https://t.co/I4dML6Jz6v

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UK bans vague ‘sustainability’ fund labels in greenwashing crackdown https://t.co/e2MNqBnFZV

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Remote work has EXTENDED the length of many Americans' Thanksgiving vacation, with Sunday before now bigger travel day than Wednesday https://t.co/t3MwlZDQrW

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For years, senior employees at Binance knew that some of its users were criminals. Yet, despite regular warnings that some transactions on https://t.co/XeEmtDl6wf were violating anti-money-laundering laws, the firm was reluctant to cut them off. https://t.co/62AmzBZTin