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The latest federal budget proposes temporary relief for companies sponsoring defined benefit pension plans that are faced with significant pension solvency funding obligations. However, this temporary relief will only be available to pension plans that are registered under the federal Pension Benefits Standards Act.

On March 13, 2009, the Canadian federal government initiated a consultation process on federally regulated pension plans. In response, a group of seven influential companies, each with large federally regulated pension plans, prepared a joint submission, which is garnering much interest.

The amended Procedures will be of interest to businesses engaged in energy resource activities in Alberta.

On May 24, 2015 Rachel Notley was sworn in as Alberta's 17th Premier and introduced her cabinet.

The EnCana-ConocoPhillips venture has approved output expansions at the Foster Creek and Christina Lake oil sands projects in northern Alberta, parallel with the Wood River refinery project in the U.S. Bitumen output is planned to grow from the current rate of 70,000 bpd day to 180,000 bpd day by 2012 and 400,000 bpd by 2016.

On May 10, 2022, the Court of Appeal of Alberta (Court) issued its opinion in Reference re Impact Assessment Act (2022 ABCA 165) whereby the majority of the Court determined...

Climate change litigation is gaining momentum in Canada as in other jurisdictions around the world.

The Federal Court has ruled that it cannot compel the federal Minister of the Environment to submit a Climate Change Plan or make regulations under the Kyoto Implementation Act, 2007 to ensure that Canada will meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol (Kyoto).

Federal legislation designed to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will be felt strongly in Nova Scotia.

Public company directors and offi cers, and their lawyers, were given some guidance by the Ontario Court of Appeal in late 2005 on the question of their potential liability for forecasts made in a prospectus, in circumstances where there may be a change in a “material fact” between the date the fi nal prospectus is issued and the closing date of the intended transaction.

A recent Federal Court of Appeal decision about medical psilocybin use exemptions is a great illustration of the administrative law principle that a significant policy shift must be adequately explained.

On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, the Canadian Senate passed Bill C-7, which then received royal assent. Bill C-7 expands access to medically assisted dying for Canadians.

New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh was in Toronto on Tuesday to discuss his plan to reduce cell phone bills.

On Dec. 8, 2023, in Commission scolaire francophone des Territoires du Nord-Ouest v. Northwest Territories (Education, Culture and Employment), 2023 SCC 31...

The Government of Alberta has tabled Bill 20: Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendment Act, 2024. ["Bill 20"] in an effort to strengthen accountability measures...

It seems a long way from Alberta's basement breweries to the halls of the Court of Appeal.

This decision affirms that private entities can seek and rely on the protection of injunctions when their legal rights are being infringed by acts of civil disobedience.