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Despite the seemingly meteoric rise in popularity that reverse vesting orders (RVOs) have experienced in the past 12 months in Canadian insolvency proceedings...

The TSX is currently conducting another review of Majority Voting Policies adopted by TSX-listed issuers to assess compliance with the Manual requirements.

The Toronto Stock Exchange has approved amendments to the TSX Company Manual relating to director elections.

On January 14, 2021, Ontario announced the start of a workplace health and safety inspection blitz of big-box stores in Toronto, Hamilton, Peel, York, and Durham.

The much-anticipated judgment in R v. Dunn, in which the former CEO, CFO, and Controller of Nortel Networks were prosecuted for fraud in association with inaccuracies in Nortel’s reported financial results, was released on January 12. All three were acquitted.

There is a rising trend towards holding supervisors and managers legally responsible for accidents in the workplace.

In Wisser v. CEM International Management Consultants Ltd. 2022 ABQB 414, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench (as it then was) confirmed the oppression remedy can ground liability...

The directors' and officers' liability towards the Minister for environmental damage can be secured by a legal hypothec on all their movable and immovable property, as was the case with Ms. Marshall.

The fundamental principle of workers' compensation across Canada is that workers who suffer an injury "in the course of employment" give up their right to sue ...

Many businesses understand that if they violate Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, which regulates the sending of commercial electronic messages, their business may be subject to penalties for breach of CASL.

Cyber-risk management is an increasingly important challenge for corporate directors. Many commentators have said that there are only two types of organizations – those that have been hacked and know it.

Board meetings often have much to address within time constraints and all Board members play a key role in maintaining focus on efficiencies and productivity.

Being elected to the board of a condominium corporation comes with many duties and obligations. Directors have a duty to act in good faith and in the best interests of the all of the owners.

The taxpayer was a director of a corporation in the marble and granite industry which failed to remit nearly $300,000 of source deductions related to remuneration paid to employees.

In Achim Bekesinski and Her Majesty the Queen, the taxpayer, as director of a corporation, was personally reassessed by the Minister of National Revenue.

On November 12, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the "CSA") issued multilateral staff notice 51-359 (the "Staff Notice") highlighting a number of transparency and disclosure issues with ...

Saskatoon lawyers, Caroline J. Smith and Cole J.N. Wilson, provide a discussion about the many aspects the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our personal and professional lives.

Beginning January 1, 2020, distributing corporations (generally, public companies) governed by the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) will be required to provide additional diversity disclosure in connection