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Businesses that can never repay their debt are the largest risk to the global economy today, some experts say.
An early attempt at weed beer "tasted like rotten broccoli," apparently.
The Trudeau government intends to have retail sales of cannabis up and running by late summer.
Both in terms of formal programs and corporate philosophy, genuine sponsorship is known to be effective at accelerating careers; but, unlike more established mentorship programs, is not at all widely used.
Businesses "need to think through what this means."
Canadian companies are too hesitant to take chances.
There are those who execute contracts and those who award them.
The way the industry thinks about the areas of capital planning, budgeting and forecasting has to change, as priorities shift from identifying and finding opportunities to getting the most out of a portfolio of assets that often far exceed the available capital.
The world is always reinventing itself, and for that growing number of organizations and their CFOs who desire or expect Finance to play more of a catalytic and strategic role, the key challenge is likely not in seeing the need but in overcoming a number of systemic barriers in their way.
Though hardly out, oil is still down -- and the same goes for Canada's high-cost producers. And though this particular bust is not altogether like the last one, a comparison to the 1980s can be helpful.