How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending May 8, 2009.

BC Election

• Ethics prof Mark Wexler was in a story onTheTyee.ca that reported that the Northern Development Initiative Trust, founded by the Liberals when they sold B.C. Rail in 2004, had failed to meet an April 30 deadline to publish their updated financial statements. “My sense is we do have a problem here,” said Wexler. “Without a good explanation, the public is led to believe the Liberals have something to hide by putting it off until either just before the election when nothing can be put into the press or after.”

Other BC News

• Jerry Sheppard, associate prof in SFU Business, did interviews on CFUN, CKNW and CBC Radio as Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and entered into an alliance with Fiat. Sheppard specializes in corporate failure and survival.

• Peter Tingling, assistant prof in SFU Business, was on GlobalTV talking about an external review that suggests Canada Post think about dropping door-to-door mail delivery as one way to address the corporation’s “uncertain” financial future. Said Tingling: “We can’t continue that level of service at that price point.” (The review says Canada Post needs more than $3 billion over the next seven years to modernize equipment.)