To attend the recent dinner at the University of Toronto’s Faculty Club honouring emeritus professor Tony Naldrett was to travel through time to an era when the university was recognized internationally as one of the top institutions for…
Increasingly, corporate management structures and areas of accountability no longer follow the strict political boundaries that define countries.
John Felderhof looks much thinner than when we first met at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in 2010.
Early in 2012, the Law Society of Upper Canada convicted Toronto securities lawyer Joe Groia of “incivility” during his defense of John Felderhof against quasi-criminal charges laid by the Ontario Securities Commission of insider…
In a frank discussion with Diamonds in Canada in late September, the cofounder and now chairman of Franco-Nevada (FNV-T, FNV-N) and ex-Newmont Mining (NMC-T, NEM-N) CEO explains why he believes…
“I don’t ever believe in using the word try,” says William Lamb, the current driving force behind Lucara Diamond (LUC-T). “If you try, you are setting yourself up for failure….
Every once in a while, by a cosmic long shot, the meek really do inherit the Earth. What’s unsaid is that they’re never so meek again once they’ve taken the reins of power.Amid increasing calls for his ouster, Shawn Atleo…
After a 60-year career as distinguished scientist, explorer, pioneer and innovator, Christopher Gleeson has died of cancer.Born in Ottawa in August 1931 to Irish immigrants, Gleeson earned his B.Sc. from Loyola College in Montreal in 1953. He…
Another sad chapter in Africa’s modern history has come to a close. The former Liberian President Charles Taylor was convicted by the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague of aiding and abetting war crimes in…
In the eight years since graduating from Ryerson University in Toronto with a bachelor of commerce degree, Ian Ball has made a major silver discovery in Mexico, claimed the title of senior vice-president at McEwen Mining (MAQ-T, MUX-N) and…
To survive half a century as an independent firm, Watts, Griffis and McOuat (WGM) has had to be the James Bond of the consulting world, willing to embrace extremes and extricate itself from some dicey situations: bush planes sinking under the…
The decisive, US$5-billion exit of the storied Oppenheimer family from its 40% controlling interest in De Beers brings to a close a century of history in the global diamond trade.
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