What the loss of the Bay means for Vancouver

Hudson’s Bay, Canada’s oldest company, started its liquidation this week. “The Bay building is almost 100 years old, it’s Class A heritage, and I think it’s an incredibly important building to the downtown,” said Vancouver Coun. Mike Klassen. While the Bay initially filed for creditor protection with the intention of restructuring, the majority of its stores…

DNA for sale as gene testing company files for chapter 11

23andMe, which provides medical and ancestry-related genetic testing, has filed for bankruptcy after it was unable to find a buyer to rescue it from insolvency proceedings and the board of directors rejected a buyout offer from co-founder Anne Wojcicki. Despite collecting DNA from saliva samples from more than 15 million customers, the company hasn’t been…

Oando’s financial woes raise eyebrows over T&T refinery deal

Joshua Seemu­n­gal Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia In­ves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ist joshua.seemu­n­[email protected] Niger­ian en­er­gy com­pa­ny Oan­do PLC, the Gov­ern­ment’s pre­ferred bid­der for the lease of the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery, has been strug­gling fi­nan­cial­ly. Ac­cord­ing to Oan­do’s unau­dit­ed state­ments and sep­a­rate fi­nan­cial state­ments end­ing De­cem­ber 31, 2024, the com­pa­ny is in ac­count­ing in­sol­ven­cy. The fi­nan­cial state­ments, viewed by Guardian Me­dia’s In­ves­tiga­tive Desk,…