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Alberta's New Democratic Party (NDP) government is moving forward on its 2015 campaign promise to raise minimum wage to $15-per-hour by 2018.

Federal Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre introduced The Fair Elections Act, which proposes a number of changes to Canadian election law.

The new Canadian Conservative government presented its first national Budget on May 2, 2006. The balanced budget provides for tax cuts, focused spending and debt paydown centered around the themes of accountability, opportunity, families and communities and security.

On April 11, 2018, the Legislative Assembly of Alberta held the first reading of Bill 11: the Lobbyists Amendment Act to bring changes to the Lobbyists Act.

The B.C. Court of Appeal recently ruled that the B.C. Supreme Court has the jurisdiction to not only enforce a settlement reached through the Human Rights Tribunal process...

In 2012 the then Government of Canada's Omnibus budget legislation included significant amendments to the environmental assessments and approval provisions of both

L'élaboration et la réalisation d'un projet immobilier comportent généralement plusieurs communications avec des titulaires d'une charge publique et autant d'occasions d'influencer une décision prise par un...

We are doing all that we can at MacDonald & Associates to ensure assistance to all as, together, we navigate this unprecedented world health crisis.

Regulators live to regulate. Governments live to govern. The policy, regulatory, and legislative instruments in place today reflect that genetic coding.

On February 12, 2024 the Court of Appeal for Ontario issued its decision in Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association v. Ontario.

On November 23, 2011, the federal Government gave first reading in the Senate to the Financial System Review Act (FSRA) proposing changes to legislation governing financial institutions in Canada.

In the constitutional context, a tax is distinguished from a regulatory charge on the basis of the purpose for which it is imposed.

Ontario's proposed repeal of section 28 of the Financial Administration Act could significantly streamline infrastructure and public-private partnership projects by eliminating ministerial approval requirements...

Debates between politicians at the federal, provincial and municipal levels about who can best lower taxes are neither new nor surprising.

The Québec Court of Appeal recently granted leave to appeal from Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales c. Cliche, 2016 QCCS 1288.

This majority decision considers the revised approach to the exclusion of evidence, as set out in R v Grant 2009 SCC 32, and marks an important development in the case law dealing with the protection of rights under s. 24(2) of the "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms".