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Many Canadian families with a moderate degree of wealth create a family trust.

Have you ever Google-searched your name on the Internet? If so, were you shocked at what you discovered?

Les litiges successoraux déchirent les familles et peuvent laisser certains biens précieux dans une impasse. Lorsque l'on constate l'exacerbation des tensions et que l'administration...

In this edition of THE FINE PRINT, we demystify compound interest, the set-it-and-forget-it principle that makes your money work for you.

The Accounting Standards Board of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants has issued a new set of financial reporting standards that address accounting and disclosure for financial instruments.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Occidental) filed a request on May 17, 2006 for arbitration claiming USD 1 billion in damages under the Ecuador-U.S. bilateral investment treaty (BIT). The request came two days after Ecuador unilaterally cancelled Occidental’s contracts and assumed control of its oil and gas operations in the country. Occidental claims that the cancellation and additional taxes recently imposed on oil revenues amount to an expropriation of its investment.

Our annual Tax Tips can assist you in your tax planning presenting some quick ideas and strategies for you to employ.

The Income Tax Act does not provide a formula for determining the residency of a trust. Instead, the development of a test of trust residence in Canada has been left to the courts.

On October 5, 2023, the Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") published CSA Staff Notice 21-333 Crypto Asset Trading Platforms...

Some sources estimate that as many as 3 m. bitcoins (~$38 billion) are irretrievable

A Power of Attorney is a document you can sign to authorize one or more persons to make decisions for you concerning your assets and financial affairs.

A Power of Attorney is a document you can sign to authorize one or more persons to make decisions for you concerning your assets and financial affairs.

"[B]ankruptcy is not a license to ignore rules"—so said the majority in Canada's highest court in the Redwater decision, holding that there was no conflict between Albertan energy and environmental legislation and...

Recently, there have been significant discussions regarding government crackdowns on tax havens related to multinational organizations moving profits offshore. From a tax perspective, any financial planning that involves moving profits offshore by multinational organizations is justifiable if the corresponding functions, assets, and risks borne to earn these profits are also shifted offshore.

On Wednesday, May 6, 2020, Premier Scott Moe announced an increase of $2 billion to Saskatchewan's capital plan to stimulate the province's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

On December 10, 2018, the Superior Court of Quebec (Court) released an important judgment concerning the assignment of contracts under the Companies' Creditors Arrangements Act (CCAA) ...

In Becker v. Becker, the Supreme Court of British Columbia considered whether a testator who had been hospitalized with an inoperable brain tumour had the requisite testamentary capacity...

With increased cost of living, high interest rates, inflation and a housing market that is increasingly inaccessible to buyers, intergenerational...