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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has concluded an investigation into matters arising from a voluntary disclosure by Nordion Inc.

The Ontario Ministry of Labour started the new year off by obtaining convictions in three high-profile workplace fatality prosecutions.

Loan agreements governed by Ontario law commonly include a provision that is intended to address the maximum effective annual rate of interest that is chargeable thereunder without contravening the usury provisions of the Criminal Code (Canada).

Tax evasion has followed business models and is marketed and even franchised to the Canadian public at large, but founders of 2 different tax evasion systems have recently been jailed.

On September 26, 2013, the Canadian Securities Administrators issued Staff Notice 11-326 Cyber Security.

The "Yates Memo," which instructs United States prosecutors to focus on individual wrongdoers when investigating or prosecuting alleged corporate misconduct...

​Recent decisions by financial-sector regulators raise a significant question for Canadian investors and markets: Is there value in offering rewards to encourage whistleblowers to step forward?

The government of Canada announced on October 30 that the exception allowing for facilitation payments under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) will be eliminated effective October 31, 2017.

Last week the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the implementation of a pilot program under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Both Criminal Code charges and provincial health and safety charges were laid against a wide array of those responsible for the project.

An Ontario court has sentenced two corporate directors to jail time and fined the company $250,000 when a worker was killed after falling from an elevated platform tacked on to the forks of a forklift.

An Ontario company was recently fined $250,000 and two of its directors were each ordered to serve 25 days in jail as a result of a workplace fatality.

A number of payment scams have been propogated recently which focus on lawyers.

As part of our quarterly series on current trends across different industries, our second article for 2019 explores cross-practice litigation developments in Canada

Recent increases in enforcement actions by the Quebec anti-corruption enforcement unit and the RCMP should be heeded by management of Canadian companies.

An internal investigation may seem like a simple undertaking, but those experienced with investigations know that looks are deceiving.

Companies that call for bids or tenders should consider carefully whether to deviate from their formal bidding process.

Canada has significantly strengthened its Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) including by adding a new offence that will expand the grounds for criminal liability for corporations and their directors, officers and employees. As a result of the amendments to the CFPOA: