Laurentian Bank of Canada is buying group annuity contracts to cover the responsibility for pension benefits owed to about 400 retirees, beneficiaries and deferred pension members. The bank says the deal with Canadian insurer Assuris transfers about $60 million in obligations and related assets in connection with its three registered defined benefit pension plans. Read: Fraser […]
When Lightspeed Commerce Inc. employees headed back to their office this year, they found a space double the size of their last with a restaurant serving free meals, a smoothie bar and a barista to craft custom drinks. “We’re making it a very unique experience and the entire office is kind of a lounging area […]
As Krystal Abotossaway, a Toronto woman with Anishinaabe Kwe heritage and who is TD Bank’s senior manager of diversity and inclusion and the president of the Indigenous Professional Association of Canada, always took care to be on time, to watch her drinking at after-work events and to be agreeable in meetings. “I didn’t want to […]