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In the wake of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's (U.K.) withdrawal from the European Union (EU) on January 31, 2020...

This coming October 21, the Canadian electorate will be called upon to vote in the federal general election.

On December 8, 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the federal government’s new "Chemicals Management Plan". The plan will carry out the mandate established for the federal government in 1999 under the Toxic Substances Control part of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) to categorize by toxicity all of the chemical substances known or presumed to exist in Canada that are recorded on the Domestic Substances List (DSL).

On June 7, 2005, the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Prince Edward Island gave royal assent to Bill 43, the Franchises Act. While Bill 43 has received royal assent, it has not yet been put into effect as the Regulations to the Franchises Act have not been finalized.

In a long-awaited decision released yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously held that the proposed Canadian "Securities Act" is unconstitutional as presently drafted, frustrating the hopes of those (including the federal government, the Province of Ontario, the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, among other intervenors) who had sought to replace the current system of 13 different provincial and territorial securities regulators with a si

Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet was in Quebec's Gaspé region on Monday proposing a more transparent and impartial process for appointing judges.

Canada was created in 1867 and currently consists of ten provinces and three territories.

All across Ontario, Municipal elections are just over six months away.

La Cour suprême rendra jugement cette semaine sur l'organisme national coopératif de réglementation des valeurs mobilières.

It's been a busy summer for lobbying law in Canada. With the recent enactment of lobbying legislation in New Brunswick, almost all Canadian jurisdictions now have some form of lobbying law, ...

On July 5, 2022, Antigua and Barbuda's High Court of Justice declared laws which criminalize consensual, private, same-sex intimacy between adults to be unconstitutional.

BREXIT is near and the clones are coming! As of January 1, 2021, trademarks registered at the European Union Intellectual Property Office

On November 17, 2005, the Federal Court of Canada released its decision in Hoechst Marion Roussel Canada Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), clarifying issues about the jurisdiction of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), including whether the existence of a patent application "pertaining to a medicine" gives the board jurisdiction over the pricing of the medicine.

On May 2, 2006, the new Conservative government delivered its first budget. The Budget proposes to enact many of the tax-related proposals made by the Conservatives during the recent election campaign, including a limited reintroduction of the "super flow-through share" program.

Part 11.1 of the "Forest Act" authorizes the "Forest Revenue Audit Program," or FRAP, as it is sometimes called without much affection.

On September 28, 2006, the Commissioner of Competition, Sheridan Scott, addressed the Canadian Bar Association’s Annual Fall Conference on Competition Law, held in Gatineau, Québec. In her speech, Commissioner Scott updated conference participants on the Competition Bureau’s progress on achieving the priorities that the Commissioner set out in her speech at the Spring CBA Conference and on her priorities for the remainder of the year.

Change is coming to Ontario's Real Estate Business Brokers Act, 2002 (REBBA), and March 15, 2019, is your last chance to chime in.

On October 31, 2006, the federal government announced proposals to introduce a new tax regime for certain publicly traded trusts and partnerships ("specified investment flow-throughs" or "SIFTs") which will essentially treat such entities like corporations and tax their investors like shareholders.