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On February 25, 2011, the Canadian Securities Administrators published CSA Staff Notice 31-323 Guidance Relating to the Registration Obligations of Mortgage Investment Entities.

The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) today announced changes to its rules that will require TSX-listed companies to obtain shareholder approval of certain public company acquisitions.

The Ontario Securities Commission today issued a notice approving Alpha Group's application to become a recognized exchange.

Earlier this week, the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance published its annual review of best practices for proxy circular disclosure, which includes its list of this year's "Governance Gavel Awards" winners.

In a judgment released earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which regulates securities firms doing business in the U.S., lacks the authority to bring court actions to collect disciplinary fines.

The Canadian Securities Administrators today released guidance intended to clarify the registration requirements that apply to mortgage investment entities (MIEs).

The Canadian Securities Administrators today released a notice summarizing the results of their continuous disclosure review program for fiscal 2011.

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) announced today that it is adopting new fee models for market and dealer regulation effective April 1, 2012.

In light of its announcement last week that UMIR amendments will soon result in the repeal of pricing restrictions on short sales, IIROC has also issued proposed guidance on short sale and short-marking exempt order designations.

Earlier this week, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) published Notice 11-0277 relating to securities trading halts in coordination with the application of "circuit breakers" on U.S. markets for the fourth quarter of 2011.

On February 3, IIROC, as part of its plain language rule re-write project, published a proposed series of rules respecting margin requirements

In December 2005, the Ontario government introduced a bill to modernize the laws governing the transfer of securities in Ontario.

On February 25, the OSC released for comment a draft of its 2011-2012 Statement of Priorities.

On February 1, 2008, Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Shareholders in Special Transactions became effective, replacing OSC Rule 61-501 and Québec’s Regulation Q-27. Both rules contained requirements for enhanced disclosure, independent valuations and majority of minority security holder approvals for specified types of transactions, specifically insider bids, issuer bids, business combinations and related party transactions.

The SEC has taken several steps to help issuers comply more cost-effectively with the internal control rules under section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

On November 3, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a proposal to reward individuals that provide information that leads to successful SEC enforcement action in which monetary sanctions total more than $1 million.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that, beginning today (May 12, 2005), it will publish on the EDGAR system (which is available on the SEC’s website) both the comment letters that SEC staff issues (as a result of its review of public company filings) and company responses.