canada Association/institute

think tank
- http://www.conferenceboard.ca/
- The Angus Reid Institute is a national, not-for-profit, non-partisan public opinion research organization established to enhance and encourage better understanding of issues and trends affecting economic, social, governance, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and foreign policy in Canada and its world.
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives https://www.policyalternatives.ca/

trade
- Ontario Chamber of Commerce http://www.occ.ca/

foreign relations
- Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada https://www.asiapacific.ca/, invited Anson Chan and Martin Lee to give talk
- The International Democrat Union (IDU) is an international alliance of centre-right political parties. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway,^[1] the IDU comprises 71 full and associate members from 63 different countries.^[2] It is chaired by Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister of Canada and is presently the CEO of international consulting firm Harper & Associates Consulting Inc. The IDU provides a forum in which political parties holding similar beliefs can come together and exchange views on matters of policy and organisational interest. From this, they act cooperatively, establish contacts, and present a unified voice toward the promotion of centre-right policies around the globe.The group was founded in 1983 as the umbrella organisation for the European Democrat Union (EDU), Caribbean Democrat Union (CDU), and the Asia Pacific Democrat Union (APDU). Created at the instigation of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and US Vice President George H. W. Bush, the organisation was founded at a joint meeting of the EDU and APDU in London, the United Kingdom. The IDU has several regional affiliates: the Democrat Union of Africa, the Union of Latin American Parties, the Asia Pacific Democrat Union, the Caribbean Democrat Union, and the European People's Party, the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists^[5] and the (dormant since 2002) European Democrat Union in Europe. It also has an affiliated youth wing the International Young Democrat Union led by Australian Simon Breheny^[6] and an affiliated women's wing in the International Women's Democrat Union.

gentlemen's club
- The Beaver Club was a gentleman's dining club founded in 1785 by the mostly English speaking fur-trading 'barons' of Montreal. According to the club's rules, the object of their meeting was "to bring together, at stated periods during the winter season, a set of men highly respectable in society, who had passed their best days in a savage country and had encountered the difficulties and dangers incident to a pursuit of the fur trade of Canada".^[1] Only fragmentary records remain of their meetings, but from these it is clear that the Beaver Club was "an animated expression of the esprit de corps of the North West Company".^[2] The men of the Beaver Club were the predecessors of Montreal's Square Milers.

rich people
- The Château Clique, or Clique du Château, was a group of wealthy families in Lower Canadain the early 19th century. They were the Lower Canadian equivalent of the Family Compact in Upper Canada. They were also known on the electoral scene as the Parti bureaucrate(Bureaucratic Party, also known as the British Party or the Tory Party). Like the Family Compact, the Château Clique gained most of its influence after the War of 1812. Most of its families were British merchants, but some were French Canadian seigneurswho felt that their own interests were best served by an affiliation with this group. Some of the most prominent members were brewer John Molson and James McGill, the founder of McGill University. Generally, they wanted the French Canadian majority of Lower Canada to assimilate to English culture. That included the abolition of the seigneurial system, replacing French civil law with British common law, and replacing the established Roman Catholic Church with the Anglican Church. Their efforts led to the Act of Union (1840), which ultimately failed in its attempt to assimilate of all French Canadians but succeeded in preventing their political and economic interests from prevailing over those of Britain. The Château Clique also had control over the Crown Lands and the Clergy Reserves but much less than the Family Compact because of the already-existing seigneurial system. The Constitutional Act of 1791 had established three branches of government: the Legislative Assembly, an elected lower house; the Legislative Council, an appointed upper house; and the Executive Council, which acted as a kind of cabinet for the lieutenant governor. The governor was appointed by the British Crown, and he appointed members of the Clique as his advisers. The Clique was also able to establish itself in the Legislative Council, leaving the Legislative Assembly, made up of a majority of French-Canadian representatives, with little or no power. Louis-Joseph Papineau, as a reformer in the Assembly, was one of the fiercest opponents of the Château Clique. His struggles against the Clique and the Lieutenant Governor, Lord Gosford, led to the Lower Canada Rebellion in 1837. After the rebellion, Upper and Lower Canada were united as the Province of Canada, but the Château Clique did not disappear like the Family Compact. While the English-speaking population became the majority, the British-appointed governors still attempted to force the French Canadian population to assimilate. Canada East, as Lower Canada was called after the union, eventually gained some political independence with the union government of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine.


asia related
-  The Mission of North America Investment Association (NAIA) is: To be the accelerator of two-way trade and investment activities between North America and Asia that benefits global economies; To be an interactive platform for information and experience exchange among members and business communities that benefits investors worldwide. Since its inception in 2006, NAIA has upheld its mandate to enhance the economic, cultural, artistic, scientific and educational exchanges and cooperation that will hence promote and assist in two-way investment activities between North America and Asia.http://www.naiacanada.com/en/about/mandate

• sole agent of canada pavilion for obor food event in hk in 2018

movement of natural persons
- CANZUK International, formerly known as The Commonwealth Freedom of Movement Organisation (commonly abbreviated as the "CFMO") is a non-profit international organisation which aims to achieve the free movement of citizens, free trade agreements and foreign policy cooperation between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom through intergovernmental legislation between the four countries. The organisation aims to promote similar free movement arrangements that exist under Article 45 of the TFEU within the European Union, and the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement between Australia and New Zealand.

• hkej 24mar17 shum article

economic research

• Fraser Institute https://www.fraserinstitute.org/

international governance

• centre of international governance innovation http://www.cigionline.org/about

food

• Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance http://www.aquaculture.ca/
• Pacific Urchin Harvesters Association www.puha.org
• Pacific Sea Cucumber Harvesters Association www.pusha.ca
• BC Seafood Alliance www.seafoodalliance.com
• Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association www.naia.ca

- tea and herbal association www.tea.ca

• The Tea and Herbal Association of Canada owns and operates the Tea Sommelier® Certification Program.  teasommelier.com

- coffee association http://www.coffeeassoc.com


fashion/textile

• North American Fur Auctions http://www.nafa.ca/

energy
- Canadian Wind Energy Association http://canwea.ca/
- Institute for Oil Sands Innovation (IOSI) at the University of Alberta https://www.ualberta.ca/engineering/research/groups/oil-sands-innovation

marine

• Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland https://www.mi.mun.ca/

- science

• https://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca, one of the organisations of strange matter exhibition at science museum 

- ICT

• entertainment software asociation of canada http://theesa.ca/
• technology alberta industry association www.technologyalberta.ca

- health

• international association medical assistance travellers 

- development

• international institute for sustainable development http://www.iisd.org/

- toronto

• confederation of greater toronto chinese business association http://cgtcba.com/

youth 

-  Scouts Canada is a Canadian Scouting association providing programs for young people of all genders aged 5 to 26, with the stated aim "to help develop well rounded youth, better prepared for success in the world.".^[8] Scouts Canada, in affiliation with the French-language Association des Scouts du Canada, is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM).
In his 1981 book, 75 Years of Scouting in Canada Robert Milks, the late Scouts Canada archivist, indicated that the first Scout groups in Canada were founded in 1908. St. Catharines and Merrickville are mentioned as among the locations of the first troops.^[16] Boy Scouts and the Scout Movement were well established in Canada before Scouts Canada or its parent organization, The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom were formed.The Boy Scouts Association was formed in the United Kingdom in 1910 and incorporated in 1912. It has been claimed that its founder, Baden-Powell, wrote to Earl Grey, the Governor General of Canada in 1910 and asked him to organize Scouting in Canada.^{[citation needed]} A branch of The Boy Scouts Association was established in Canada under The Boy Scouts Association's Overseas Department. The Canadian General Council of The Boy Scouts Association was incorporated by an Act of the Canadian Parliament on June 12, 1914. The Canadian General Council continued to be represented internationally by The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom until 30 October 1946, when the Canadian General Council became a direct member of the Boy Scout World Conference, now the World Organization of the Scout Movement. The organization continued to be a branch of The Scout Association of the United Kingdom until 2007^{[citation needed]}. The Canadian General Council of The Boy Scouts Association changed its name to Boy Scouts of Canada by an amendment to its incorporating Act of Parliament. In 1976 the Scouts Canada logo was introduced and the organization, by its By-laws, adopted the name Scouts Canada. In 2007, the organization's name was amended to Scouts Canada in the establishing legislation. In 1972, Scouts Canada began accepting female participants as part of its Rover Section. This was expanded in 1984 to include the Venturer Section. In 1992, co-ed Scouting was an option for all program sections and became policy for all sections in 1998.

• hk

•  The 1st Hong Kong Canadian Scout Group (1stHKCSG) was originally founded in 1992 by the Canadian International School Parents’ Association. By then, it was the only Canadian Scout Group outside of Canada.  The Group was made up of Beaver Scouts, Cub Scouts and Scouts. All Leaders of the Group were parents who volunteered.  They were enthusiastic and concerned about the intellectual thinking, social and teamwork development, and the physical health of the youth.  They were also committed to mentoring the Scouting members to become responsible members of the community.  The presence of Canadian Scouting in the Canadian International School of Hong Kong has created a truly Canadian environment for learning, playing and Scouting. From 1999 onwards, the Canadian International School of Hong Kong has become our Sponsor since the school moved to the new permanent premises in Aberdeen.  In the same year, we added a Venturer Scout Company to our Group.http://www.1sthkcsg.org/

toronto hketo

香港投資推廣署及香港駐多倫多經濟貿易辦事處日前在多倫多舉行的一個研討會上，再次向商界推介香港作為中國內地與全球各地之間「超級聯繫人」的獨特角色，以及香港在該角色下強大的金融與商貿發展優勢。研討會以「香港：超級聯繫人」為題，由多倫多地區商會主辦，並由香港經貿處及港加商會支持協辦。投資推廣署署長賈沛年向與會者表示，「一國兩制」確保香港於國際社會上的競爭力。他告訴與會者，香港在「一國兩制」下擁有優越的營商環境；資金及資訊自由流通；健全獨立的司法制度，以及低稅率與穩定稅制等優勢，是加拿大企業進入內地以至亞洲其他市場的最佳平台。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/10/12/a16-1012.pdf

http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201603/0324/HA16324CGCC.pdf event on obor

film
- film festival "15 years of hk cinema" may to dec 2012

music
- hk sinfonietta concert in toronto 4oct2012 in association with royal conservatory of music

cny reception
- 2019 event with hkta hkcd 10feb19

dragon boat
- hksar anniversary cup jun-aug2012 in toronto, vancouver, calgary, montreal and ottawa

table tennis
- hksar annivesary cup table tennis tournament oct 2012 in association with canadian chinese table tennis association

hksar anniversary
- hk 15  years poster design contest apr/may2012
- hksar anniversary cup inter-collegiare debate may2012


receiving hk delegation
- student

• 東華三院主席兼名譽校監王賢誌本月初率領28名來自東華三院屬下18所中學的學生大使，以「鑒往知來─可持續發展：溫哥華」為主題到訪溫哥華，與當地華人及各界見面，認識溫哥華社會，並探討華人在溫哥華的生活狀況。學生大使在溫哥華的旅程中，參觀了中國駐溫哥華總領事館、香港駐溫哥華經濟貿易辦事處、卑詩省議會、英屬哥倫比亞大學、皇家不列顛哥倫比亞博物館（Royal BC Museum）等機構及單位。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20181024/PDF/b7_screen.pdf

canada company

diversified

• Aecon Group Inc. is Canada’s largest publicly traded construction company, providing a range of services to private and public sector clients across its three core segments of Infrastructure, Energy, and Mining. 

• Aecon Group Inc. has signed a deal to be acquired for $1.5 billion by CCCC International Holding Ltd. of China, subject to shareholder and government approvals. CCCC International has agreed to pay $20.37 per Aecon share in cash to buy the Canadian construction company, which said in August that it was looking for potential buyers. CCCC International, also known as CCCI, is the overseas investment and financing arm of China Communications Construction Company Ltd., one of the world's largest engineering and construction groups.http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/aecon-ccci-takeover-1.4372766

•  http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2148457/australian-colleagues-highlighted-challenges-chinas Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says “Australian colleagues” told his government about the challenges of allowing the Chinese to buy engineering companies before it made the decision to last week reject a bid by a unit of China Communications Construction to purchase Toronto-based Aecon Group.

colonial background
- The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur tradingbusiness for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada, the United States and parts of Europe, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay, commonly referred to as The Bay(La Baie in French). Other divisions include Galeria Kaufhof, Gilt, Home Outfitters, Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue. HBC's head office was in the Simpson Tower in Toronto, but it relocated northwest of Toronto to Brampton, Ontario.^[8][when?] The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "HBC". The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay. It functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to some of those territories.^[9] It was once the world's largest landowner, controlling the area of the Hudson Bay watershed, known as Rupert's Land, which has 15% of North American acreage. From its long-time headquarters at York Factory on Hudson Bay, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English and later British-controlled North America for several centuries. Undertaking early exploration, its traders and trappers forged relationships with many groups of aboriginal peoples. Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States. In the late 19th century, with its signing of the Deed of Surrender, its vast territory became the largest portion of the newly formed Dominion of Canada, in which the company was the largest private landowner. By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling everything from furs to fine homeware. They "quickly introduced a new type of client to the HBC – one that shopped for pleasure and not with skins"; the retail era had begun as the HBC began establishing stores across the country.^[10] In July 2008, HBC was acquired by NRDC Equity Partners, which also owns the upmarket American department store Lord & Taylor.^[11] From 2008 to 2012, the HBC was run through a holding company of NRDC, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, which was dissolved on 23 January 2012.^[12] Since 2012, the HBC directly oversees its Canadian subsidiaries Hudson's Bay (formerly The Bay) and Home Outfitters, in addition to the operations of Lord & Taylor in the United States. On 29 July 2013, the HBC announced its takeover of Saks, Inc., operator of the US Saks Fifth Avenue brand. 

• Hudson's Bay (formerly and still colloquially known as The Bay) is a chain of 90 department stores that operate in Canada and the Netherlands.^[5] It is the main brand of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), North America's oldest company.^[6] It has its headquarters in the Simpson Tower in Toronto. In French, the chain is known as la Baie d'Hudson (formerly la Baie), short for "Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson". The chain uses both the English and French versions of the name in some parts of Canada.The origin of the Hudson's Bay Company's department store format can be traced to 1881, when the company opened its first department store in Winnipeg, Manitoba, under its proper name "Hudson's Bay Company". From 1881 up until 1960, all "Hudson's Bay Company" stores were located in Western Canada and the Canadian Arctic.

• https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/09/holes-in-the-high-street-hudsons-bay-confirms-all-15-dutch-stores-will-close/ The Hudson’s Bay department store group has confirmed it will close its 15 stores in the Netherlands at the end of this year, three weeks after the Financieele Dagblad reported on the plans. The department store group’s 1,400 Dutch workers were told about the closure on Thursday afternoon and will be given a ‘reasonable’ redundancy package, trade union De Unie said. The closures will leave 15 large city centre premises empty and will cost the company €51m a year in rent – or €400m over the full guarantee period, the Financieele Dagblad said. In June, the Canadian company sold  its minority stake in its European operations – excluding the Dutch interests – to Austrian investment company Sigma, and took back sole ownership of the Dutch operation. It said at the time some stores would close.

• people

• Napoléon-Alexandre Comeau (May 11, 1848 – November 17, 1923) was a self-taught naturalist and Canadian government official. The city of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, is named after him,^[1] as well as this city's history museum building. He was born in Les Îlets-Jérémie (located in the municipality of Colombier), not far from Betsiamites on the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence River. He was the eldest of eleven children.^[3] His father, Antoine-Alexandre Comeau, was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company. His mother, Mary Luce Hall-Bedard, was of Irish origin. Napoleon-Alexandre Comeau spent his childhood in the woods in Labrador, at North-West River and the Mingan Islands, along with the Innu and Inuit, who taught him to hunt, fish and navigate.

cppib
- http://www.cppib.com/en/public-media/headlines/2015/cppib-longfor-joint-venture.html Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Longfor Properties Company Ltd. (Longfor) announced today that they have formed a new joint venture for a major mixed-use development project in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The new joint venture was formed on December 23, 2014 with CPPIB committing RMB 1,250 million (C$234 million) to jointly develop the Times Paradise Walk project in Suzhou, the fifth most affluent city in China with a population of 10 million. The mixed-use development is an integrated project comprising residential, office, retail and hotel space covering a total gross floor area of 735,000 square metres. It is designed to be a top quality, one-stop commercial destination in Suzhou with completion scheduled in multiple phases between 2016 and 2019.

- india

• https://www.reuters.com/article/india-cppib-investment/canadas-biggest-public-pension-fund-to-step-up-investment-in-india-idUSL4N1UF3K2 Canada’s biggest public pension scheme sees India as its main focus for investment in Asia as the country pours money into infrastructure development. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), which manages Canada’s national pension fund, has invested nearly C$7 billion ($5.30 billion) in India since entering the market a decade ago and is looking for opportunities to invest in Indian infrastructure, power and real estate projects.

- china

• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-20/cppib-invests-in-china-s-west-paradise-walk-mall-with-longfor

Canada Post Corporation (French: Société Canadienne des Postes), known more simply as Canada Post (French: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation which functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the operating name of the Post Office Department of the Canadian government founded in 1867), rebranding was done to the “Canada Post” name in the late 1960s, even though it had not yet been separated from the government. On October 16, 1981, the Canada Post Corporation Act came into effect. This abolished the Post Office Department and created the present day Crown corporation which provides postal service.^[3] The act aimed to set a new direction for the postal service by ensuring the postal service's financial security and independence. Canada Post provided service to more than 16 million addresses and delivered nearly 8.4 billion items in 2016 and consolidated revenue from operations reached $7.88 billion.^[2] Delivery takes place via traditional "to the door" service and centralized delivery by 25,000 letter carriers, through a 13,000 vehicle fleet. There are more than 6,200 post offices across the country, a combination of corporate offices and private franchises that are operated by retailers, such as drugstores. In terms of area serviced, Canada Post delivers to a larger area than the postal service of any other nation, including Russia (where service in Siberia is limited largely to communities along the railway). As of 2004, nearly 843,000 rural Canadian customers received residential mail delivery services. Canada Post operates as a group of companies called The Canada Post Group. It employs approximately 64,000 full and part-time employees to deliver a full range of delivery, logistics and fulfillment services to customers. The Corporation holds an interest in Purolator Courier, Innovapost, Progistix-Solutions and Canada Post International Limited.^[6] In 2000, Canada Post created a company called Epost, allowed customers to receive their bill online for free. In 2007, Epost was absorbed into Canada Post.

Bank
- royal bank of canada

• Largest european office in luxembourg (source: eurocham sem on luxembourg green exchange on 16jan18)

- The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (French: Banque Canadienne Impériale de Commerce), commonly referred to as CIBC, is one of the "Big Five" banks in Canada.The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was formed through the June 1, 1961, merger of the Canadian Bank of Commerce (founded 1867) and the Imperial Bank of Canada (founded 1873)William McMaster founded the Canadian Bank of Commerce which opened on May 15, 1867, in Toronto as competition for the Bank of Montreal; by 1874 it had 24 branches. The Imperial Bank of Canada opened in Toronto on March 18, 1875, founded by former Commerce Vice-president Henry Stark Howland. By the end of 1895, the Canadian Bank of Commerce had grown to 58 branches and the Imperial Bank of Canada to 18. The 1896 gold strike in the Yukon prompted the Dominion Government to ask the Canadian Bank of Commerce to open a branch in Dawson City. Wood, Gundy & Company, the precursor of CIBC's investment banking arm, opened its doors on February 1, 1905. During World War I, it took a prominent and active role in the organization of Victory Loans.Acquisitions in the 1920s caused the Commerce Bank to become one of the strongest branch networks in Canada with over 700 local branches; and the bank opened international branches in Cuba, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad during the same period.

asset management

• brookfield

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-06/23/content_25815021.htm Brookfield Asset Management Inc, Canada's biggest alternative asset manager, and ChinaThree Gorges Corp are among companies weighing offers for Duke Energy Corp's LatinAmerican power plants, people with knowledge of the matter said. Chinese government-owned electricity generator State Power Investment Corp is alsoconsidering bidding for the assets. The sale could fetch more than $2 billion, according to thesources. Duke Energy, the second-largest US utility owner by market value, said in February it'sconsidering the sale of about 4,400 megawatts of generating capacity in Central and SouthAmerica. Half the assets are in Brazil, where drought and an economic downturn hurt DukeEnergy's results last year, with the remainder in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador,Guatemala and Peru. Hydroelectric plants make up about two-thirds of the portfolio, according tothe February statement.

• ivanhoe cambridge

• http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/1878160/canadian-pension-fund-arm-ivanhoe-cambridge-doubling Ivanhoe Cambridge, the real estate investment arm of Canada’s second-largest pension fund, is doubling its investment in mainland China and looking for opportunities in other Asian economies, including Hong Kong, Singapore, India and Japan. The company, holding C$48 billion of assets as of the end of June, aims to build up its exposure in mainland China to between US$1.5 billion and US$2 billion in the next three to four years, mainly through two partnership deals it signed in June.

insurance
- Manulife Financial Corporation is a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company operates in Canada and Asia as "Manulife" and in the United States primarily through its John Hancock Financial division. Manulife was incorporated as "The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company" by Act of Parliament on 23 June 1887 and was headed by Canada's prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and Ontario's lieutenant-governor, Sir Alexander Campbell (there were no conflict-of-interest guidelines at the time and it was not unusual for public persons to be involved in private industry). The idea for the company came from J.B. Carlile, who came to Canada as an agent for the North American Life Assurance Company. It was his first-hand experience on which the new company's product portfolio was based.The company sold its first policy outside of Canada in Bermuda in 1893. In 1894, policies were sold in Grenada, Jamaica and Barbados; Trinidad and Tobago, and Haiti in 1895; and British Honduras, British Guiana, China and Hong Kong in 1897. In 1901, Manulife amalgamated with the Temperance and General Life Assurance Company,^[5] a Toronto-based Canadian life insurer that provided preferred rates to abstainers of alcohol. Manulife continued to offer abstainers rates into the 1920s. In 1931, it opened its first southern China branch in British Hong Kong. Shortly thereafter, it established itself as a leading life insurer in the region with branches in Macau, Swatow and Amoy.

• マニュライフは、1901年に日本での生命保険事業の免許を取得して営業を始めたが、第二次世界大戦により事業を中断。1999年4月にマニュライフ・センチュリー生命として改めて設立され再上陸した。2001年9月から現社名となった。2000年5月、東京川崎財閥の流れを汲む中堅生保の第百生命保険相互会社が経営破綻したことでスポンサー（受け皿金融機関）となり、生命保険契約者保護機構から1,450億円の資金供与を受けて、既存契約の移転および営業権の譲受を実施した。2015年3月、日本での本社機能を、調布市国領町4-34-1にあった本社ビルから、京王線（京王新線）初台駅を最寄りとする東京オペラシティタワー30階へ移転した。本社ビルが解体された跡地には、東京建物の分譲マンション「Brillia（ブリリア）調布国領」が建設された。2015年4月から、京王電鉄が始めた副駅名によって「初台駅　マニュライフ生命本社前」となった。
• http://www.baystreet.ca/stockstowatch/4015/Manulife-Financial-To-Cut-700-Jobs-In-Canada-And-Consolidate-Its-Operations 

real estate

• http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKCN0JA26W20141126 LeMine, which had been referred to Fengguan by a third party, signed a seven-year agreement during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to China, even though the Canadian company has not yet secured supplies. The deal will eventually put canola oil exported by LeMine into Chinese outlets owned by Wal-Mart Stores Inc, which sell rapeseed oil under the Fengguan brand, said LeMine Chief Executive Officer Thomas Liu.
•  Olympia & York (also spelled as Olympia and York, abbreviated as O&Y) was a major international property development firm based in Canada. The firm built major financial office complexes including Canary Wharf in London, the World Financial Center in New York City, and First Canadian Place in Toronto. It went bankrupt in the early 1990s and was recreated to eventually become Olympia & York Properties.In the late 1980s the company undertook to develop the Canary Wharf site in the east of London. The 83 acre (336,000 m²) site would become the largest development project in the world, which would incorporate One Canada Square, Britain's tallest skyscraper at the time. The project ran into problems however. Britain entered a recession, British firms were unwilling to relocate from the traditional financial centre within the City, and despite a personal promise by Margaret Thatcher, the London Underground line known as the Jubilee Line Extension was delayed in construction awaiting the contributions from Olympia & York (with the line eventually opening in the year 2000). The office space at Canary Wharf remained largely empty and Olympia & York began to run out of cash. At the same time, New York City and its real estate market began a deep recession and Olympia & York, who was now the largest property holder in Manhattan, began to feel cash flow problems which deeply affected the pyramid-like financing strategy that the Reichmann brothers had adopted.
• Menkes

• One of its property, fleur, has the fleur-de-lis symbol

mining

• Eldorado Gold Corporation is a Canadian mid-cap gold mining company. It has assets in Turkey, Greece, Romania, Brazil and Serbia. Eldorado's activities involve all facets of mining, including exploration, development, production and reclamation.

• http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/mining/update-3-canadas-eldorado-suspends-greek-investment-over-regulatory-hurdles Canada’s Eldorado Gold Corp said on Monday it would suspend investment at its Greek mines and development projects, blaming regulatory hurdles for halting one of the biggest investments in Greece since the country’s debt crisis.

- northern dynasty minerals
- First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX : FM [archive]) est une société de mines et métaux basée à Vancouver (Colombie-Britannique). Ses activités principales incluent l'exploration, le développement et l'extraction de minerais en Afrique (Zambie, République démocratique du Congo, Mauritanie). La société a été fondée le 21 décembre 1983 sous le non de Xenium Ressources Ltd. Les actions de First Quantum sont cotées à la bourse de Toronto (Canada) (symbole "FM") et à la bourse de Londres Alternative Investment Market (symbole "FQM") au Royaume-Uni. En janvier 2012, First Quantum vend ses actifs en République démocratique du Congo « suite à la nationalisation de ses activités par le gouvernement du pays ». 
- Barrick Gold Corporation is the largest gold mining company in the world, with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.^[2] The company has mining operations in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Zambia.Barrick Gold Corporation evolved from a privately held North American oil and gas company,^[5] Barrick Resources.^[6] After suffering financial losses in oil and gas,^[7]founder Peter Munk (1927–2018) decided to refocus the company on gold. He saw an opportunity to create a gold company based in North America, at a time when Apartheid-era sanctions prevented North American investors from owning shares in South African gold companies, who dominated the industry at that time.^[9]Barrick Resources Corporation became a publicly traded company on May 2, 1983,^[10] listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-randgold-rsrcs-m-a-barrickgold/canadas-barrick-gold-to-buy-randgold-for-65-billion-idUSKCN1M40NU Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp has agreed to buy Randgold Resources Ltd in an all-stock deal valuing the Africa-focused miner at $6.5 billion, to create the world’s largest gold producer in an industry under investor pressure to put capital to good use.The new Barrick company, which will be listed in New York and Toronto, will own five of the world’s 10 lowest-cost gold mines and have a market value of $19.4 billion based on Monday’s trading. That would make it the world’s biggest gold miner by market capitalization, overtaking Newmont Mining Corp, according to Reuters calculations.

- Nevsun Resources Ltd. is a Canadian, diversified mid-tier miner with a portfolio of base metal assets to drive growth. The Company is headquartered in Vancouver, BC.^[1] Nevsun’s common shares trade on the TSX and NYSE American under the trading symbol “NSU”. The Company’s three principal assets are its ownership interest in the Timok Project, a high-grade copper-gold development project in Serbia, its Bisha zinc-copper Mine in Eritrea, and its strong balance sheet. The Company also holds a number of additional exploration licenses and permits in Serbia, Macedonia and in the Bisha mining district.

•  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zijin-mining-share-sale/zijin-mining-plans-to-sell-1-2-billion-a-shares-to-fund-nevsun-purchase-idUSKCN1OW01P Chinese gold miner Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd (601899.SS) (2899.HK) said it plans to sell up to 8 billion yuan ($1.16 billion) worth of new shares in Shanghai to help fund its purchase of Canada’s Nevsun Resources Ltd (NSU.TO). Zijin aims to sell up to 3.4 billion A shares to investors in China, in a plan which is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval, the firm said in a filing to the Hong Kong bourse late on Tuesday. Nevsun agreed last September to a C$1.86 billion ($1.37 billion) buyout bid by Zijin, in a deal that trumped an earlier hostile takeover offer by Lundin Mining Corp (LUN.TO).

- Dominion Diamond Mines (formerly known as Dominion Diamond Corporation, Harry Winston, and Aber) is a Canadian specialist diamond mining company. The company holds a 40% stake in the Diavik Diamond Mine Project. Production at the Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada's second diamond mine, is operated by Dominion Diamond Mines' joint venture partner, Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group. The mine began producing diamonds in November 2002. In 2012 the company purchased all of BHP Billiton's diamond assets; the primary asset is the Ekati Diamond Mine, which is adjacent to the Diavik Mine.

• parent company is washington companies

- SEMAFO Inc. is a Canadian-based mining company with gold production and exploration activities in West Africa. The name SEMAFO is an acronym for "Mining Exploration Society in West Africa". Its headquarters are based in Montreal, Canada. The Corporation currently owns and operates the Mana Mine in Burkina Faso, the third-largest gold mine in Burkina Faso, and reached commercial production at the Boungou Mine on September 1, 2018. The company is listed on the Toronto stock exchange, as well as on the Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm. SEMAFO has been involved in many controversial incidents throughout its existence. It has been connected to instances of severe repression of local populations in places such as Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Accusations have been levelled at the corporation for supporting the corrupt regimes of Blaise Compaoré and the military junta which replaced him in Burkina Faso. The corporation has been involved in strike-breaking in Niger in which locals protested the destruction of the local ecosystem and the "slave wages" paid by SEMAFO. SEMAFO is also notorious for tax evasion- evading taxes of up to as much as 9.6 million dollars in Guinea.

apparel
- Aritzia
- Gildan Activewear Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of branded clothing, including undecorated blank activewear such as t-shirts, sport shirts and fleeces, which are subsequently decorated by screen printing companies with designs and logos. The company also supplies branded and private label athletic, casual and dress socks to retail companies in the United States^[2] including Gold Toe Brands, PowerSox, SilverToe, Auro, All Pro, and the Gildan brand.^[3] The company also manufactures and distributes Under Armour and New Balance brand socks.^[4] The company has approximately 42,000 employees worldwide, and owns and operates manufacturing facilities in Rio Nance, Honduras^[5] and the Caribbean.

- canada goose company

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-31/canada-goose-plots-china-flight-path-with-physical-online-plan Canada Goose is heading to China, opening two stores and a regional headquarters as it hopes to win over more luxury shoppers who desire the warmth and fashion cred of a $900 parka with the brand’s patch on its sleeve. Chief Executive Officer Dani Reiss said he’s making “significant investments” in China and outlined the coatmaker’s plan to open a Beijing flagship and a shop in Hong Kong this fall, along with an e-commerce business on Alibaba’s online Tmall. The Toronto-based company will partner with retail management firm ImagineX Group to help with operations, including staffing and daily administration.

- Lululemon athletica inc. (/ˌluːluːˈlɛmɪn/), styled as lululemon athletica, is a Canadian athletic apparel retailer. Lululemon is a self-described yoga-inspired athletic apparel company for women and men. 

• Wilson was born in southern California^[where?] in 1956.^[5][6] Both of his parents were athletes at college, and his father was a physical education teacher.^[6] In 1980, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Calgary.
• 今年五月，沽空機構「殺人鯨」Blue Orca Capital狙擊安踏，令公司股價單日內曾一度急插13%，Wilson就差唔多呢段時間斥資7.78億元，以每股49.11元，大手承配安踏0.59%股權。三個月安踏股價升咗近三成，以昨日收市價63.35元計，Wilson依家手貨大概值十億元，即係帳面速賺超過2.25億元！點解Wilson會睇中安踏呢？原來舊年十二月時大家一齊夾錢買過嘢，夾錢嘅財團仲有騰訊(00700)同埋私募基金方源資本，當時係收購芬蘭運動用品公司Amer Sports，涉資約52億美元，Amer Sports擁有Salomon、Wilson及Atomic等國際知名運動品牌。一齊食過大茶飯，唔怪得知道對方係咪有真材實料啦！https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20190904/00202_023.html

b2b

• http://www.contactcanada.com/

- ict

• Kik interactive

• http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-08/19/content_21649313.htm China's Tencent Holdings Ltd has taken a $50 million stake in Kik Interactive, an investment that values the Canadian mobile messaging company at more than $1 billion, Kik said on Wednesday. Kik, a Waterloo, Ontario-based company whose chat platform is popular with US teens, has long said it aims to emulate the success of Tencent's WeChat, which has expanded from messaging to facilitating commerce in China. The investment from Tencent, China's biggest social network and online entertainment company, helps justify that ambition, Kik Chief Executive Ted Livingston said in a phone interview. "That company that everyone's talking about, they think Kik can do in the US what they've done in China, that's why they're investing," he said. Kik faces stiff competition in mobile chat, with Snapchat targeting the same teenage audience and Facebook Inc's Messenger and WhatsApp products claiming far more users. But Livingston is betting on a growing number of add-on services to keep its 240 million users engaged.

- fertilizer

• Agrium Inc. is a major retail supplier ofagricultural products and services in North America, South America and Australia and a wholesale producer and marketer of all three major agricultural nutrients and a supplier of specialty fertilizers in North America.

- biochem

• Apotex is a Canadian pharmaceutical corporation. Founded in 1974 by Dr. Bernard Sherman, the company is the largest producer of generic drugs in Canada.

• 成立加拿大非專利藥藥廠Apotex的億萬富豪舍曼（Barry Sherman），上周五被發現與妻子雙雙倒斃在多倫多大宅的地下室內，亦有傳他們的遺體吊在泳池欄杆上。警方指二人死因有可疑，但現場沒有強行入屋的迹象，消息指當局循殺人後自殺的方向調查。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171217/00180_001.html

- seafood

• New Brunswick suppliers directory http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/10/fisheries.html
• mussels: www.icebergselect.com (exhibited at Seafood Expo 2014), www.norlantic.ca (exhibited at Seafood Expo 2014), http://www.greenseafoods.com/ (exhibited at Seafood Expo 2014), www.canadiancove.pe.ca (exhibited at Seafood Expo 2014)

- energy

• encana to buy athlon energy under $7bn deal http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/749936d0-47e5-11e4-ac9f-00144feab7de.html#axzz3ElaiV2lm
• Niko Canada's Niko Resources to sell India deep sea gas stake
• pacific rubiales energy corp http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7a3248b8-feb8-11e4-84b2-00144feabdc0.html Pacific Rubiales, the largest independent oil producer in Latin America, is set to be acquired by Grupo Alfa and Harbour Energy in what would be the region’s biggest-ever private equity deal.

- pipeline

• TransCanada Corporation is a major North American energy company, based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, developing and operating energy infrastructure in North America. 

aerospace
- SPAR Aerospace was a Canadian aerospace company. It produced equipment for the Canadian Space Agency to be used in cooperation with NASA's Space Shuttle program, most notably the Canadarm, a remote manipulator system.The robotics division was sold in 1999 and is now part of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates as MD Robotics, a subsidiary of its MDA Space Missions division. As part of MDA, it developed the Mobile Servicing System for the International Space Station, which includes the Space Station Remote Manipulator System, also known as Canadarm 2.The company was originally formed in 1967 in Brampton, Ontario through a management buyout of de Havilland Canada’s Special Products division and Avro Canada's Applied Research unit. This gave the name Special Products/Applied Research. or SPAR for short. 

aviation
-  Bombardier Inc. (French pronunciation: ​[bɔ̃baʁdje]) is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company. Starting as a maker of snow machines or snowmobiles, over the years it has grown into a large manufacturer of regional airliners, business jets, mass transportation equipment, and recreational equipment, and a provider of financial services.Bombardier was founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée (loosely translated to "Bombardier Snow Car Limited") on July 10, 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2017-01/23/content_28030810.htm Montreal-headquartered small aircraft manufacturer foresees big opportunities in the shift. "The new aviation policy has helped shift the focus to smaller aircraft, startup carriers and new regional airports. Given our cost-efficient regional aircraft, the new policy provides us significant opportunities to grow," said Colin Bole, senior vice-president, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, at Bombardier Inc. Currently, Bombardier has about 150 aircraft in operation in China. That's a fraction of its more than 10,000 aircraft in operation globally.But China is becoming key to Bombardier's future. For instance, half of the main structure of Bombardier's new single-aisle aircraft, the CS 300, was made in Shenyang, China. The CS 300 is expected to be pressed into service in China in 2018.

•  http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-41984752 EgyptAir intends to buy up to 24 of Bombardier's C-Series planes, the aerospace firm has said.The airline has signed a letter of intent for 12 firm orders, with an option for a further 12.
•  https://www.reuters.com/article/bombardier-crrc-china/bombardier-crrc-jv-win-271-mln-contract-to-build-monorail-in-china-idUSL4N1OI3JO

• ft 26jun19 bombardier snaps up bombardier jet business

- WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian airline founded in 1996. It began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines.^[5][6] WestJet provides scheduled and charter air service to more than 100 destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.WestJet is a subsidiary of Kestrel Bidco Inc. with more than 14,000 employees,^[12]and is not part of any airline alliance. It operates three variants of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family, the Boeing 737 MAX, as well as Boeing 767 and Boeing 787 aircraft, on select long-haul routes.Founded by Clive Beddoe, David Neeleman, Mark Hill, Tim Morgan, and Donald Bell, WestJet was based on the low-cost carrier business model pioneered by Southwest Airlines and Morris Air in the United States. Its original routes were all located in Western Canada, which gave the airline its name.


railway

• Canadian National Railway CN - Shippers today (Jan to Feb 2015 issue, page 53, runs an article about its pledge to milton district hospital expansion)

glass
- https://www.eternalglass.com/ Robert McCausland Limited is the oldest stained glass company in the Western Hemisphere. RML is also the longest, continuously owned family company in Canada. Founded in 1856 by Joseph McCausland, an Irish immigrant, the firm has survived five generations. 


crisis management

• Corpworld http://www.corpworldgroup.com/

research

• Forum Research www.forumresearch.com, market and consumer research, opinion poll etc

publishing

• iStockphoto http://www.istockphoto.com/help/about-us

- private club

• https://www.arbutusclub.com/About/Membership.aspx

- gambling

• Amaya Inc. (also known as Amaya Gaming and Amaya Gaming Group) is a Canadian gaming and online gambling company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol TSX: AYA) and headquartered in suburban Montreal, Quebec. 

- cemetery, funeral home

• Mount Pleasant Group
• hainstock funeral home

• https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/edmonton-ab/tak-luk-7852727?filter=family#remembering, see also singtao 18may18 a16

- dubious and to kiv

• tallinn capital http://www.tallinncapital.com/about-us-2/ - links with cheung kong and related ipos