TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
Toronto Stock Exchange (11,860.66, down 10.58 points):
Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Transportation equipment. Down one cent, or 0.25 per cent, at $4.01 on 7,066,618 shares.
Yellow Media Inc. (TSX:YLO). Directory publisher. Up one cent, or 11.11 per cent, at 10 cents on 3,875,303 shares.
Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU). Oil and gas. Up three cents, or 0.1 per cent, at $30.22 on 3,685,680 shares.
Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC). Insurer. Down two cents, or 0.16 per cent, at $12.63 on 3,576,818 shares.
B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO). Miner. Down 23 cents, or 6.76 per cent, at $3.17 on 3,522,994 shares.
Viterra Inc. (TSX:VT). Grain-handler. Unchanged at $15.93 on 3,291,095 shares.
TSX Venture Exchange (1,397.42, down 7.63 points):
Africa Oil Corp. (TSXV:AOI). Oil and gas. Up $2.02, or 34.83 per cent, at $7.82 on 5,882,050 shares.
Simba Energy Inc. (TSXV:SMB). Up one cent, or 6.45 per cent, at 16.5 cents on 4,751,719 shares.
Companies reporting major news:
Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX:CP). Railway. Down 12 cents, or 0.16 per cent, at $74.49 on 458,620 shares. Activist investor William Ackman has found a new ally in the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to elect his nominees to the board of directors of CP and replace the railway's current CEO. Teachers' said Monday that it's backing the move to replace CP chief executive Fred Green with Hunter Harrison, former head of rival Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR).
Air Canada (TSX:AC.B). Airline. Down two cents, or 2.08 per cent, at 94 cents on 574,457 shares. The compensation package for Air Canada's CEO fell 12 per cent last year, while the payouts of the airline's four other top executives soared even though continued losses drove its share price down more than 70 per cent. Calin Rovinescu earned $4 million in 2011, down from $4.55 million a year earlier, but higher than the $2.6 million during his first nine months on the job in 2009, according to a proxy circular.
