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With its 40th anniversary quickly approaching, the North-South Institute (NSI) will soon be reflecting on the past four decades of its contributions that have made it one of Canada’s most important policy research institutions in the field of international development. Founded in 1976, the NSI has been ranked twice in previous years as the world’s [...]

When it comes down to the nitty-gritty these days, Canadian investors seem to be heeding the advice of those financial advisers who are working tirelessly to promote socially responsible investments that will empower initiatives across the country which are designed to strengthen environmental, social, and corporate governance principles. I have written much about the growing [...]

In light of the raging debate in Canadian society over the ethics of fossil fuel extraction and use in recent years, socially responsible investors in Canada have been increasingly hard-pressed to take great pains in avoiding those funds which are even nominally connected to merchants of “dirty” energy. Naturally, for anyone who is aware of [...]

We are less than a month into the New Year, and the business ethics conference circuit is already kicking into high gear, as demonstrated by the upcoming 16th Annual Conference of the JD/MBA Students’ Association which will be held at the Courtyard Marriott in downtown Toronto on February 8th. This yearly meeting of students and [...]

Established in 2002, Corporate Knights is a Canadian-based “media, research, and financial products company focused on quantifying and animating clean capitalism drivers for decision-makers,” which has also extended its operation to the United States. The mission of the company is grounded in the concept of ‘clean capitalism’ which calls upon corporations to adopt environmental, social, [...]

The road to establishing an inclusive structure for the development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) benchmarks in Canada has been fraught with concerns about the breadth of stakeholder involvement since the very earliest days of government interest in CSR practices and policies. The desire to produce a CSR framework with the input of all sectors [...]