Michael Byers, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at UBC, writes about the two proposed pipeline projects. “The first plan — a new pipeline called “Northern Gateway” — would carry 525,000 barrels per day to a terminal just south of the Alaska Panhandle, where it would be loaded onto [...]
Kai Li, the W.M. Young professor of finance at Sauder School of Business at UBC, writes about the media frenzy over U.S. hedge fund Pershing Square’s successful proxy battle at Canadian Pacific. “The bashing of Pershing that we’ve seen begs the question of whether hedge funds are opportunistic investors or corporate saviours acting in the [...]
James McCormack, a professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC, writes about Canada’s clinical practice guidelines for cardiovascular health. “A recent evaluation of cardiovascular patient guidelines in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that only 12 per cent of the recommendations are based on randomized controlled trials (the highest level [...]
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