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Can CI Financial’s MacAlpine redeem the consultant turned CEO concept?
Andrew Willis
opinion
The pain, the gain: Why did it take so long for the world to accept the dangers of OxyContin?
Barry Meier
international business
Hybrid-work trend may wipe out US$800-billion from office property values by 2030, study says
FILE PHOTO: A vacant office building, 5 Hanover Square, is seen in the financial district of New York City, U.S., July 6, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
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Government review of McKinsey contracts finds no evidence of political interference
Treasury Board President Mona Fortier rises during Question Period, Thursday, April 27, 2023 in Ottawa. The Treasury Board says it has found no evidence of political interference in the federal contracts with consulting firm McKinsey & Company. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Is the ‘career’ dead? What does that mean for workplaces?
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Morning Update: McKinsey pitched Purdue Pharma Canada on a plan to boost opioid sales in 2014, memo reveals
Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, has acknowledged in the United States that its marketing of the drug was misleading, but it has not made a similar admission in Canada.
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McKinsey pitched Purdue Pharma Canada on plan to boost opioid sales in 2014, memo reveals
FILE PHOTO: Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin pills, made by Purdue Pharma LP sit on a counter at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S., April 25, 2017. REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo
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E-mails show McKinsey involvement in call with Barton while he was Canada’s ambassador to China
Former McKinsey & Company executive Dominic Barton prepares to testify at a committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Ottawa to join B.C. class action accusing McKinsey of ‘reckless’ opioid marketing
Visitors walk past the US global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 28, 2023. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ottawa needs to kick its consultants habit
Konrad Yakabuski
politics
Internal audits of McKinsey contracts raise fairness, transparency concerns
Mona Fortier, President of the Treasury Board shuffles her papers as she waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates in Ottawa, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. The Treasury Board  says internal audits of contracts with McKinsey & Company show departments didn't' consistently follow some administrative requirements and procedures. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Auditor-General to launch review of federal government’s ArriveCan app
A person holds a smartphone set to the opening screen of the app in a photo illustration made in Toronto on June 29, 2022. Giordano Ciampini/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Auditor-General to probe federal government contracts with McKinsey
Auditor general of Canada Karen Hogan holds a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Canada's auditor general will review the contracts awarded by the federal government to McKinsey & Company. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Canada’s immigration target has nothing to do with McKinsey or its former head, Dominic Barton, says Immigration Minister
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser rises during Question Period, Thursday, February 9, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Evening Update: For Ukraine’s power workers, keeping the lights on is a life-and-death struggle under Russian fire
— EMBARGO: NO ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, WEB POSTING OR STREET SALES BEFORE 12:01 A.M. ET ON FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2023. NO EXCEPTIONS FOR ANY REASONS —Firefighters extinguish a blaze after a Russian shell landed near a shopping mall in a suburb of Kherson, Ukraine, Feb. 3, 2023. Being the leader of Kherson may feel more like a curse than an honor, but one woman isn’t giving up, even though the Russians are sitting just across the river and shelling her city nearly every hour. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
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Federal Comptroller-General rebuked for advising ‘be careful what you write down’ in McKinsey contract review
The Peace Tower and Centre Block of Parliament Hill is framed through the window of the Indigenous Peoples Space in Ottawa on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
Minister asks Procurement Ombudsman to conduct independent review of McKinsey outsourcing
Public Services and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek appears at a House of Commons standing committee on government operations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. The committee is looking at contracts awarded to McKinsey & Co. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Politics Briefing: Ottawa withdrawing controversial amendments to gun legislation
The gun room of Ellwood Epps Sporting Goods in Orillia, Ontario. December 22, 2022. (Photo by Tannis Toohey for the Globe and Mail)
opinion
In sea of consulting contract problems, the Conservatives only dream of their whale
Campbell Clark
opinion
The rise of the Department of McKinsey
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