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On April 27, 2012, the federal government announced two proposed amendments to the Investment Canada Act, the legislation that regulates foreign investment in Canada.

In November 2016, The Minister of Finance announced the Global Skills Strategy aimed at making it easier and faster for Canadian employers to hire skilled foreign workers. The Global Skills Strategy is part of the government's Innovation Agenda which seeks to drive growth for Canadian companies and position Canada as a global innovation leader.

Canada's Global Skills Strategy is scheduled to launch on June 12, 2017. The Global Skills Strategy is aimed at helping high-growth Canadian companies attract specialized global talent.

This program is designed to showcase Canadian investment opportunities to Japanese investors. The program consists of six virtual events to be held throughout 2021.

On February 22, 2018, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) announced that it was launching a public consultation on two new disciplinary approaches...

The SEC has indentified, as a significant contributing factor to the RMBS collapse, the paucity of adequate information which would have allowed investors to make informed investment decisions and the resulting overreliance upon ratings.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently held that lenders are not responsible for the unfortunate results of borrower’s failed investments in situations where the lender is not acting as an advisor.

On November 30, 2009, the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities (CAPSA) released a consultation paper on "The Prudence Standard and the Roles of the Plan Sponsor and Plan Administrator in Pension Plan Funding and Investment" for comment.

The Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) recently made its Submission to the Federal Government's Innovation and Growth Agenda.

Over the past few years, there has been increasing media coverage on the effect of the baby boomer generation reaching retirement age.

Canadian securities regulators are expected to publish the final version of National Instrument 81-107 Independent Review Committees for Investment Funds later this summer. Assuming this timing is met, managers of investment funds that are reporting issuers, including mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange–traded funds and scholarship plans, will be required to establish an independent review committee for those investment funds by mid-2007 (or within 6 months of the rule becoming effective).

Market expectations are that the equity-related products in 2013 will benefit from signs of recovery in the U.S. and globally.

In 2010, Vancouver and Whistler will host the XXI Olympic Winter Games. That fact, along with British Columbia’s steadily growing tourism industry, is fuelling interest in new, flexible recreational property products. One such product that has been successful in British Columbia recently is the marketing of fractional real estate interests, or "fractionals". This article will explain the concept of fractionals and will analyze some of the issues surrounding the development and financin

Proposed National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements seeks to streamline, as well as to achieve harmonization and modernization of the Canadian registration regime. In working to implement these general concepts, the Canadian securities regulators propose to add new registration categories, as well as to introduce new activities requiring registration, while at the same time proposing to discontinue certain existing registration categories.

Proposed National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements will transform the registration regime in connection with the exempt distribution securities market, particularly in provinces outside of Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, where a system of universal registration is already in place.

Proposed amendments to the TSX rules will require an investment fund listed on that exchange to seek security holder approval if it is being "acquired" or if it proposes to acquire another investment fund by issuing securities in payment of the purchase price for that fund in excess of a specified threshold.

Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) Notice 31-320, published October 15, 2010, proposes amendments to National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements & Exemptions (NI 31-103) and its companion policy that introduce an international investment fund manager registration exemption.