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Regulators have an obligation to protect the public from unqualified, unauthorized persons practicing the profession

Last week, Crowe Soberman proudly hosted our annual Women for Women breakfast event, entitled The Ripple Effect: Investing in Women in STEM.

Most business owners understand the importance of accounting software and technologies; they rely on it to gain insight into their business and to make better financial decisions.

On October 4, 2016, the Competition Bureau published a report assessing the effect of advertising restrictions on the health care marketplace.

The long anticipated report ("Report") of the Competition Policy Review Panel (the "Panel") entitled "Compete to Win" released in mid-summer may well have been sub-titled "Send us your money: we're open for business".

A little over two years ago, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (now Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)) launched the Government of Canada’s inaugural Call for Concepts for Social Finance...

The significant impact of COVID-19 has been felt globally and as the situation evolves Canadian and global business leaders must be prepared to deal with a range of scenarios.

Introduction The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Canada’s Minister of Finance, delivered the annual Fall Economic Update, or more formally; the Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections, to a business luncheon in Fredericton, New Brunswick on November 13, 2012.

There have been a disappointing lack of publicly-reported enforcement actions under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) since it came into force in July 2014.

On November 24, 2005 the Government of Canada, through the Ministry of Natural Resources, announced the Forest Industries Competitiveness Strategy. This strategy, an initiative worth close to CDN $1.5 billion, is targeted at buttressing the competitiveness of the Canadian forest industry in the global market place, while also supporting the economic sustainability of forest-dependent communities across the country.

Even in the absence of an executed franchise agreement, your business relationship could be characterized as one of franchise and, as a result, subject to disclosure obligations contained in the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure) (the Act).

The grant of franchises in the Province of Manitoba will be subject to regulation as of October 1, 2012, joining Ontario, Alberta, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island with pre-sale disclosure legislation in Canada.

David Little, Tom Reaume and Andre Garber of Dentons Canada LLP presented information about the legal basics to consider when starting a business at the JOLT Fall 2013/Winter 2014 Cohort Workshop.

Staff of the Canadian Securities Administrators have been signalling for some time their goal to have proposed National Instrument 31-103 "Registration Requirements" come into force by March 31, 2009.

It is sometimes expressed by members of the franchise community that a lawyer’s representation of both franchisor and franchisee clients may lead to that lawyer’s taking inconsistent positions in servicing their clients.

Franchisors are greedy and self-interested.

A collective of Ontario courts rendered a number of decisions that impact on the enforceability of written employment agreements, which means that employers, their counsel and human resources personnel should review their existing employment contracts.

A step forward in the modernization of Mexico's energy sector, the long-in-the-making Mexican Energy Reform, substantially diluted from its original to ensure passage through a divided Congress, is still considered by experts as sufficiently far-reaching to shore up the country's flagging oil industry.