On August 4, 2020, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) released a set of findings1 concerning a decision by TD Canada Trust (TD)

In our March Bulletin, Procurement Redux: Understanding the New Broader Public Sector Procurement Directive, we outlined the significant differences between the 2009-issued BPS Supply Chain Guideline ("Guideline"), and the Broader Public Sector ("BPS") Procurement Directive ("Directive"),

In the second part of our series on the "boilerplate" of tech commercial agreements, we focus on the all-important assignment. In the last TLQ, we looked at governing law and dispute resolution provisions.

Family offices today face growing complexity driven by generational transitions, a growing number of family stakeholders...

Those who handle individuals’ personal information, including financial details, in the course of business are required to treat that information in accordance with Canada’s privacy laws. This includes getting an individual’s consent as to where and to whom this information is disclosed.

Cloud computing and data outsourcing has been embraced by many Canadian companies.

While outsourcing the processing or hosting of information is not a new idea, as many companies are familiar with application service providers ("ASPs") and software-as-a-service ("SaaS"), "cloud computing" has become a catch-all phrase that represents the plethora of hosting and processing services available and delivered over the Internet.

In 2009, two of Canada’s leading players in the oil and gas sector, Suncor Energy Inc. and Petro-Canada, merged in the year’s top transaction, creating the country's largest energy company.

Having explored the ways customers can improve their RFP processes in the past three editions of the TLQ, we now turn to look at the supplier side of the equation.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions ("OSFI") recently released for comment a draft of a new Guideline B-10 – Outsourcing of Business Functions. The new Guideline will apply to federally regulated financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies, subsidiaries and parent companies of such institutions, and foreign financial institution branches, as well as bank holding companies (collectively, for the purposes of this bulletin, "FRFIs")

Cloud computing is widely recognized as one of the most important new strategic technology opportunities for business. Cloud computing enables a business to outsource its information technology ("IT") requirements to a specialist service provider who can provide required services in a better and more efficient and cost effective manner.

Increasing numbers of Canadian businesses and other institutions are outsourcing their information technology requirements: 1) to reduce costs and internal staffing commitments; 2) to release capital to more productive uses; 3) to gain access to specialized expertise; and, in some cases, 4) to establish or strengthen strategic business relationships.

Globalization is a tool. It can be well used and therefore be to the advantage of those affected – i.e. affected in a very positive way. It may also be ill used and therefore be to the disadvantage of those affected – initially this will have the negative effect upon the weaker countries or regions of the world but eventually all will have the problem of letting an opportunity slip through their collective fingers of sharing a maximized wealth.

On November 13, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced that it would be releasing the source code of its implementations of Java technology as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This phased release, which is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2007, was referred to by Sun as "one of the largest source code contributions under the GPL license".

Globalization is a tool. It can be well used and therefore be to the advantage of those affected – i.e. affected in a very positive way. It may also be ill used and therefore be to the disadvantage of those affected – initially this will have the negative effect upon the weaker countries or regions of the world but eventually all will have the problem of letting an opportunity slip through their collective fingers of sharing a maximized wealth.

Globalization is a tool. It can be well used and therefore be to the advantage of those affected – i.e. affected in a very positive way. It may also be ill used and therefore be to the disadvantage of those affected – initially this will have the negative effect upon the weaker countries or regions of the world but eventually all will have the problem of letting an opportunity slip through their collective fingers of sharing a maximized wealth.

Outsourcing—once an obscure idea considered to be the domain of information technology professionals—has now arrived as a mainstream business strategy that is on the agenda of all senior management.

What are the risks, issues and contractual terms to be aware of for technology license agreements? To create effective licenses for both licensors and licensees, it is important to have an understanding of the common legal and business issues that arise in negotiating licenses by following these "Top 10" tips. Software, Web sites, e-commerce transactions and information technology generally can involve many different forms of intellectual property (IP).

While outsourcing has been an important legal sub-speciality since the early 1990s, over the past number of years the volume and complexity of this work has veritably taken off. The reason is simple: the volume of outsourcing activity doubled in the last decade. One estimate puts the annual growth rate of outsourcing at 20-30%. In short, outsourcing is big business, estimated at well over $1 trillion

For lawyers specializing in outsourcing transactions, it is by now a truism that one of the most challenging aspects of the transaction is the need to provide for change during what can be a very lengthy term.