The SEDAR website (www.sedar.com) contains most securities related information required by the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. It is probably your best source for financial statements of Canadian companies on the Internet. In addition, most companies that have a website have a section on investor information. In this section, they often include their most recent financial reports and news releases.

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Choose a Canadian publicly traded company. Collect several articles about the company that cover the most recent two-year period. Try to find at least three longer articles. If the company has a website (most companies do), it will probably have useful news releases there. Finally, go to the SEDAR website and find the company’s most recent financial statements filed there. Answer the following questions: 

a. What are the products (or product lines) and/or services that it sells? Be as specific as possible. 

b. Who are the company’s customers? 

c. In what markets, domestic and global, does the company sell its products and/or services? 

d. Who are the company’s major competitors? 

e. What are the major inputs that the company needs in order to produce its product? Who are the suppliers of these inputs? 

f. Are any of the items listed in the questions above changing substantially? Use a two-year time span to answer this question.