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  TORONTO -- While Canadian health authorities have approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in children ages 12 and up, experts say parents shouldn’t assume their child wants the jab. Dr. Kathryn Birnie, a clinical child psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Calgary, told CTVNews.ca that children may be hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine and says parents need to address those concerns before booking them an appointment. "One of the things we can do as parents is to ask about what their concerns are," Birnie said in a telephone interview on Thursda...

While Canadian firms raised a record amount of venture capital in the first quarter of 2021, the amount of money flowing to Ottawa-based companies continued its downward slide, the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association said Tuesday. The CVCA said Canadian companies received $2.7 billion in venture capital over 178 deals in the first three months of the year, three times the total of $916 million that VC firms invested in 128 deals a year ago. But here in Ottawa, VC investments in local companies plummeted sharply year-over-year to $9 million across four deals. That’s down ...

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He has owned JMR Meats since 1983, moving the business from Craik to Davidson in 1999. “Probably May and June were the busiest months of my life I ever had being in the retail business,” he said. Normally Sperling earns most of JMR’s income from custom work, what he called “on-farm slaughter” ordered by specific livestock producers. “Cattle, pork, bison,” he used as examples. The retail side of his business usually makes up just a small portion. But retail surges in May and June were “a shot in the arm,” he said, recalling the fall period into December was somewhat busi...

Longevity risk an increasing concern In recent years, Canadian DB plan sponsors have increased their focus on risk management and, while investment risk may be their biggest concern, longevity risk isn’t far behind, says Simmons. “Over the last 40 years, the assumptions that a typical pension plan has been using to estimate how long their plan members are going to live have changed a number of times. The result has been, for a typical pension plan, a 25 to 30 per cent increase in liabilities.” Two examples of Canadian DB pension plans transferring their longevity risk through annuity bu...