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Topics  Best & Worst Winners & Losers 2011: Big winner, big loser By Matthew McClearn, Joe Castaldo  | November 29, 2011

Unions get demolished and the 1% wipe away the stains of insult with crisp new $100 bills.

Frank Stronach's electric Kool-Aid
CB_Frank StronachFrank Stronach with a Focus Electric from Ford. (Photo: Chris Wattie/Reuters)
Is the Magna founder’s push into electric vehicles foxy, or foolish?
More heavy arms needed
CB_Europe discussionChancellor Angela Merkel sells the scheme in the Bundestag (Photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
It ain't over: Why the latest deal fails to solve the EU debt crisis.
What is a bribe in 2011?
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Enforcement of anti-corruption laws is ramping up worldwide, but the line between gift, gratuity and bribe remains as grey as ever. In...
    • CB_BillAckmanBill Ackman, left, shakes hands with Hunter Harrison on Feb. 6, 2012. (Photo: Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
    Topics  Transportation  /  Strategy CP Rail rolls out new strategy By Matthew McClearn  | May 24, 2012 Investors have high expectations for Bill Ackman’s new regime at CP Rail. Perhaps too high.
    Flaherty_CBThe future of CMHC is in Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty's hands. (Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)
    Topics  Financial CMHC mortgage insurance may be reduced by feds By Matthew McClearn  | May 14, 2012 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty may find getting out of mortgage insurance hard to do.
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    Topics  Strategy  /  Real Estate Cooling Canada's housing market By Matthew McClearn  | May 04, 2012 How Ottawa plans to make mortgages more expensive and drive down housing prices—without hiking interest rates.
    Diamonds_CBCanada's diamond production peaked in 2007 and has been falling ever since.(Photo: John Lehmann/Canadian Press)
    Topics  Mining  /  Strategy Diamond mines in Canada at risk By Matthew McClearn  | May 04, 2012 The owners of Canada’s two largest mines are looking to get out.
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    Topics  Lifestyle Q&A: Grant Assenheimer, former logistician for Doctors without Borders By Matthew McClearn  | May 03, 2012 On blackouts in surgery, battling cholera in Chad, and how to use charcoal to fight biting red ants.
    RBC_CBA U.S. lawsuit alleges senior RBC executives orchestrated an elaborate trading scheme for the sole purpose of generating tax credits.(Photo: Norm Betts/Landov)
    Topics  Financial  /  News & Markets  /  Strategy  /  Investing Royal Bank defends 'wash trades' By Matthew McClearn  | April 16, 2012 U.S. regulators have picked an epic fight with RBC. But has Royal Bank actually done anything wrong?
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    Topics  Strategy  /  Lifestyle  /  Retirement Retirement age in Canada rising By Matthew McClearn  | March 27, 2012 Forget Freedom 55: Canada's retirement age is on the way up. It's now virtually certain that you'll be working longer than your parents.
    CB_customsAt the very moment when wealthy foreigners are coveting our relative stability, they’re finding our doors more tightly barred—and the admission fee jacked up. (Photo by Peter Power/The Globe and Mail<br/> )pmp
    Topics  Investing Immigrant investors to Canada face backlog By Matthew McClearn  | March 19, 2012 As wealthy foreigners are coveting our relative stability, they’re finding our doors more tightly barred—and the admission fee jacked up.
    CB_GreektaxGreece has criminalized tax evasion (Photo: Ris Messinis/Getty)
    Topics  Financial Greek tax evasion runs rampant By Matthew McClearn  | March 15, 2012 If Greece is ever to achieve fiscal sustainability—something European officials insist is both necessary and achievable—then more Greeks must be persuaded to pay their taxes.
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    Topics  Strategy  /  Investing How patent trolls operate By Matthew McClearn  | March 15, 2012 Infographic: Patents, intended to encourage innovation, have spawned an unintended creature: the patent troll. Here's how you can get something for nothing—if you have the capital.
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