Investigate Canadian Business

• Finding Canadian Corporate Info   - The Six Best services
• Finding Canadian corporate Info - Private companies
• Finding Canadian corporate Info - Provincially-registered companies
• Finding Canadian Corporate Info   -  The other tools
• Canadian Business
• News Wire Services
• Canadian Business criticism
• Les affaires en Francais

Find company information - The best:

1. Stockwatch:

• Stockwatch       A great stock and news service. One of the only eays to search by directors and to check cross-ownership. Not free but not expensive and well worth the price. Also provides news searches, insider trader reports and much more.

The rest:

2. Advice for Investors.com

• Main page   Free services

3.Corporate Information.com

4. Canada Newswire:

• Canada Newswire    Search for business news by keyword or date. Plus a good listing of corporate home pages
• Canada Newswire Corporate Snapshot
• Newswire Portfolio        Choose the company, organization or subject you want and you'll get their press releases mailed to you every day
• Company Snapshot Quick lowdown on any company
  

5. CCN Matthews:

• CCN Matthews     Excellent news,  links and stock quotes. Plus a quick Search Page allows you to search news releases by keyword or company.

6. SEDAR

• Sedar Home Page       The System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval is the system used for electronically filing information with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities and  is mandatory for most reporting issuers in Canada.
• Sedar - Search Public Companies      Easy access to annual reports or any other information
• Sedar - Company profiles

• Big Charts Canada    Complete charts going back a decade on any public company. Before any keyword search, put in the code "CA:"
• Bollinger Charts

Private companies:

• Strategis.ca - Search Database Lists all companies, private and public, that have registered to operate in Canada.
• Strategis bankruptcy index Lists all insolvent companies. $8 charge per search

List of all provinces:

• Click here for a list of all provincial web sites. Many are pay-for only services

New Brunswick:

• New Brunswick corporate registry search

BC:

• BC Online - Corporate search and land registry Not free but the only way to search online for who owns what
• British Columbia Securities Commision Decisions

Quebec:

• Registre des entreprises individuelles, des sociétés et des personnes morales au Québec (CIDREQ)

Ontario:

• Official government site
• Corporate record searches may be conducted via the Internet through private companies such asOnCorp Direct Inc. and Cyberbahn Inc, Dye & Durham Co. Inc.and Teranet Services Inc.

Alberta:

• Private companies only are authorized to do corporate arches. Click here for more information

Find company information - The Rest:

[Click here for Finding Corporate Information in United States and other countries]

• Andy Riga's Business Page         A Montreal Gazette business reporter's launchpad to business site.  A great place to start
• Hoovers Company Research          Search for information on Canadian and U.S. companies
• Powerize    Excellent search tool Canadian StockMarket Reporter StockGroup     Vancouver based survey of "small cap" stocks (under $500 million)
• Canadian Economy Online
• Corporate Home Pages     From Canada Newswire
• Blue Book of Canadian Business     Corporate / Executive Profiles which can be browsed free of charge  and the Canadian Business Index which contains detailed information on over 2,500 top businesses
• Advantage Internet Business Network      Canadian business information, news headlines, tools and resources.
• CanadaOne Directory  A free directory listing for Canadian businesses misc.invest.canada         A Usenet chat group
• CompanySleuth    Choose up to ten companies and CompanySleuth will send you free emails with the latest gossip, inside scoops and data about your target.  Info includes New Patents, SEC Filings, Earnings Estimates , Discussion Group Postings and Stock Quotes.
• TSE Company Search        Type in a name, get a logo, basic stats, web page and mail addresses
• Your Investment          A free Canadian Online service from Canoe, Financial Post and Quote.Com that not only gives securities quotes on all major North American markets, but also allows users to construct individual portfolios to track their wealth throughout the day and make informed investment decisions.
• Canadian Financial Network
• Canadian Energy Companies     A one stop source for information on virtually all of Canada's publicly traded energy companies. Includes oil and gas, coal, and service and supply companies. Listings contain contact info, stock information and sometimes corporate profiles and reports.
• Strategis              An excellent free service on Canadian businesses run by Industry Canada -- Canada's largest business Web site, providing easy, direct access to Industry Canada's extensive database including 60,000 reports, 500,000 pages of searchable text and hot links to Canadian and international business information databases.
• Business archives       The Society of American Archivists(Business Archives Section) has produced a "Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada"(1997). Contact Amy Fischer at Procter & Gamble Co. at fischerae@pg.com for info. Retail Canada

Stock Exchanges :

• Toronto Stock Exchange         News, info plus your own personal portfolio
• TSE stock quotes          Why wait for tomorrow's newspaper? Get free 15-minute delayed quotes, equities, options and indexes on the TSE, futures  and equities on the Canadian Dealing Network™ (CDN™).
• TSE Company Search        Type in a name, get a logo, basic stats, web page and email addresses
• Vancouver Stock Exchange
• Montreal Stock Exchange
• Mutual Funds Canada
  

Business Criticism- Canada

Business coverage does not have to be sycophantic.  Here are some examples of business news from a critical perspective:


Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Council of Canadians
Challenging Free Trade in the Americas
Class Action against Nesbitt