Riskczar has learned that a passenger aboard a Porter Airlines flight from Toronto Island Airport to New York was removed from the plane for making “comments about the G20 in the waiting area”. This according to the pilot. My source, who…
Reputation risk – Novotel workers strike
When the French planned their G20 visit to Toronto, they must have figured it would be a nice nationalist gesture to book the Novotel hotel, owned by the French company Accor. In a move that reeks of poetic justice to…
G20 update – Day 4
Day 4. This is the day we have been waiting for. The first three days of this week were like a dress rehersal. We took precautions, had folks working from home just in case, but the real test was going to…
G20 update – Day 3
Day 3. Yawn. All is still quiet. Perhaps this is the equivalent of the opening act: people only show up for the headliner and the opening acts often play to a partially filled venue. Headliner goes on the main stage…
G20 update – Day 2
Day 2 starts with rain in Toronto. There was a minor protest yesterday afternoon for people protesting that they had nothing important to protest. Or maybe they were protesting poverty. One guy was busted by a cop on a bike…
G20 update – Day 1
It’s Monday, Day 1 leading up to the G20 which starts in Toronto on the weekend. Downtown Toronto is wrapped in fences. On my 3 block walk from Union Station to King Street, I saw no fewer than 20 local…
Business as usual is businss at risk
Riskczar sends out some love to Jack Burlingame at Deloitte in Boston tonight for sharing a new Risk Quote. And have a read at the white paper “Intensive Risk, Elusive Value: A Risk Intelligent Executive’s Guide to Security & Privacy”…
Bad name risk
There is absolutely nothing funny about what happened to the six women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by Regina, SK doctor Edward Poon. It’s awful in fact. Having said that, the guy’s last name is Poon. (If you don’t know…
The CRO cannot be expected to do what only the CEO can do
Here’s an excellent op-ed piece in US Banker about the role of the chief risk officer and the CEO. This may be the best thing I’ve read in months. Setting the tone for this article is Warren Buffet who recently…
Take this ERM and shove it
RIMS recently honoured Paychex, a company that offers payroll services, for “innovation in risk management“. Paychex, spelled with an “x” is not to be confused with the late country music star, Johnny Paycheck, who recorded the song “Take this Job…