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The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has updated its suspicious transaction reporting guidance on What is a suspicious transaction report? and...

Since 2015, the Canadian Government has raised the threshold for "net benefit to Canada" reviews from CA$600 million in the target's enterprise value to CA$1.568 billion for investors from

The extension power proposed in the TLPA may be invoked up to September 30, 2020 and may have retroactive effect to March 13, 2020.

Early this morning, Reuters released an article discussing Homeland Security's internal report on President Trump's border ‘wall'.

The Trump Administration issued an Executive Order (EO) on the evening of September 19, 2025, outlining the framework for the anticipated "gold card" visa, a visa program that will facilitate...

As a result of the Paris and San Bernadino attacks, the United States began closely scrutinizing its Visa Waiver Program ("VWP").

The U.S. government has blocked the acquisition of U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International Inc. by Ant Financial, a mobile wallet company and an affiliate of the large Chinese e-commerce, retail, ...

On April 29, 2026, following the conclusion of multilateral charter negotiations in Montréal, Canada was unanimously selected by the 19 founding member nations as the future host country for the headquarters...

On December 21, TMAC Resources Inc. announced that its proposed sale to Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd., a Chinese state-owned gold miner,...

On February 3, 2021, the Canadian government announced that it had placed the Proud Boys, along with 12 other new groups, on the list of terrorist entities.

By way of background, the ICA contemplates two types of review in respect of foreign investments: economic review and national security review.

On December 19, 2016, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, announced the release of long-awaited guidelines relating to the national security review of investments by non-Canadians . . .

On March 5, 2025, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne announced that the impact of a foreign investment on Canada's economic security has been explicitly added to the Guidelines.

For years, stakeholders have been calling on the government to implement a voluntary filing regime in respect of certain classes of transaction that are not subject to a mandatory filing obligation.

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month.

Bill C-13, the Lawful Access Legislation, formally known as the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, received Royal Assent on December 9, 2014 and will come into effect on March 9, 2015.

In the immediate aftermath of the recent shooting in San Bernardino, much of the focus, apart from concern for the victims and their families, was on understanding whether the violence was in fact an act of terrorism.

On June 18th, 2015 Canada's Standing Committee on Finance (the "Committee") released its report entitled, Terrorist Financing in Canada and Abroad: Needed Federal Actions.