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Since the boundaries of what constitutes white-collar offences are so large, and difficult to define, it is safest to have a specialist see whether or not you qualify for entry, or are criminally inadmissible to Canada.

On March 10, 2016, Canada quietly amended the Regulations Amending the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials (Tunisia and Egypt) Regulations and repealed provisions concerning Egypt.

Seven individuals and three companies charged in a bid-rigging scheme for IT contracts with the Government of Canada have been found not guilty by the jury, after a lengthy trial which concluded in April 2015.

On February 6, 2017, Mega Byte Information ("Mega Byte") was sentenced by the Court of Québec and fined $450,000 after pleading guilty to operating a deceptive telemarketing scheme...

York Regional Police are warning the public that there has been an increase in fraudulent activity conducted by phone and/or email.

It is Tax Season again and with that comes the boatload of spam emails trying to trick people into visiting compromised sites that serve up malicious software; or sites that try to gather personal information from unsuspecting or unwary individuals.

Another tax protester, Denise Eddy of Red Deer, Alberta, was convicted of tax evasion and filing false income tax returns.

You are at your desk. An email flashes across your screen. One of the bankruptcy trustees you have recently begun acting for asks you to call.

A number of Canada’s most loved chocolate bar makers are accused of conspiring to fix prices for chocolate bars and other chocolate snacks. Nestlé Canada Inc., Mars Canada Inc., and IWAL, a national network of independent wholesale distributors, as well as three executives, two from Nestlé and one from ITWAL, were charged with price fixing offences contrary to section 45 of the Competition Act, the Competition Bureau announced recently.

In a recent speech, Interim Commissioner of Competition John Pecman announced his vision of a "Bureau Without Borders".

In 2016, the Commissioner of Competition (the Commissioner) pursued another year of aggressive criminal enforcement in Canada.

An Ottawa businessman has been charged with rigging bids for real estate advisory services for the federal government. Mr. Louis Facchini, carrying on business as First Porter Consultancy, was charged with bid rigging under the Competition Act as well as fraud under the Criminal Code for allegedly submitting a false invoice with a value exceeding $5,000 to Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC).

The Bureau de décision et de révision (BDR) ruled on an application by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) seeking an administrative penalty against a director of a reporting issuer.

No securities were ever purchased with the investors' money.

Earlier this week, the British Columbia Securities Commission released its 2014 Enforcement Report, which represents the first annual enforcement report to be published by the BCSC.

The Ontario Divisional Court in Fiorillo v. Ontario Securities Commission dismissed an appeal by a number of respondents who were found liable by the Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") for insider trading.