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A special report
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Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006
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Board Games
A Report on Business team examined the corporate governance
practices of 270 of Canada's largest companies and found most
of them wouldn't meet tough new standards
recently adopted by the United States
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How the best companies do it
It's far from an exact science, writes ELIZABETH CHURCH, but there are building blocks that can help ensure a board represents shareholder interests and is independent of management
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Independence at stake in these firms
Many of the lower-ranked companies did not ensure key committees were staffed entirely by outside directors, writes LILY NGUYEN
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Governance practices at 5 famous fiascos
LILY NGUYEN tracks how Bre-X, Livent, YBM, VisuaLabs and Cinar would have measured up in today's more independent environment
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Related boards a matter of opinion
Despite TSX guidelines, many companies' boards continue to have directors with close links to the firm, JANET McFARLAND writes in the second part of our investigation
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Family-run companies consider themselves unique
LILY NGUYEN finds the number of companies with
strong family ties makes it hard for this country
to adopt strict corporate governance rules
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Directors travel in small world
Many of the country's biggest corporate boards
have the same people sitting at the table, JANET McFARLAND writes in the third part of our investigation
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Solutions for 'groupthink' and clubbiness
Corporate governance experts say there are practices that reduce the risk of clubby conformity among familiar colleagues on boards of directors
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One woman finds little glamour in the boardrooms of Canada
Corporate director JALYNN BENNETT tells ELIZABETH CHURCH it's hours of reading, days of meetings and 'occasional moments of random terror'
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Executive loans common practice
Some of the biggest companies are lending top executives millions of dollars, often interest free, ELIZABETH CHURCH writes in the fourth part of our investigation
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Options put stock holdings at risk
Almost a third of TSX companies could dilute more than 10% of their common share float, writes JANET McFARLAND in the fifth part of our investigation
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Dual-class stock double trouble
Certain shares can give executives or company founders
too much power over ordinary shareholders, LILY NGUYEN writes
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Report on Business corporate governance rankings
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Milner: Canada must get tougher on boards
Corporate excesses and scandalous behaviour in the U.S. could have been avoided
How ROB created the rating system
Based on a tough set of 'best practices' culled from guidelines of regulators, institutional investors and associations
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