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The Ontario Securities Commission recently published "OSC Staff Consultation Paper 15-401" which sets out a proposed framework for an incentive-based whistleblower program.

In August 2009, Metron was retained to repair concrete balconies on two high-rise apartments.

There is another court decision out of the well-known tragedy in Toronto involving five workers who fell from the thirteenth floor of a high-rise building on December 24, 2009.

What is an employer to do when it discovers that one of their employees has been arrested?

In Canada, like many jurisdictions, there are a number of longstanding provisions in contracts that are not regularly redrafted. After all, things do not change that often in the mining business.

The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has insisted that management personnel are automatically liable for corporate environmental offences, and has laid numerous charges on this basis.

Recent Canadian judicial decisions have established that a bank owes a duty of care to non-customers once it has actual knowledge of, or is wilfully blind to, the use of its services for fraudulent purposes.

The Government of Canada recently introduced the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1 (the "Budget Implementation Act") and the Criminal Interest Rate Regulations (the "Regulations")...

The Court regarded this business as being somewhat risky by nature, always entailing the risk of losses, which must be borne by the agency, in this case by Gescoro.

In the recent decision of Raza Kayani LLP v. Toronto-Dominion Bank, the Ontario Court of Appeal addressed the scope of the "fictitious payee" defence available to banks and other financial institutions under Canada’s Bills of Exchange Act.

The court saw that banks can spread the risk and loss, while a drawer could be a small business that could be bankrupted if required to bear the loss alone.

In a fiercely-contested, 5-4 split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a company victimized by employee cheque fraud can recover its $5.5-million loss from the banks ...

On April 5th, newspapers in Canada began reporting that the Financial Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) had imposed its first ever penalty on a bank.

On June 10, 2020, "regulations amending the regulations amending certain regulations" made under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (the "PCMLTFA")...

The Ontario Government's Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act, 2019 ("the Act") received Royal Assent on March 26, 2019.

The Minister of Industry has tabled amendments to the Investment Canada Act to permit the review of foreign investments that could compromise national security.

Section 546(e) securities safe harbor provision protects shareholder settlement payments in LBO transactions from constructive fraudulent conveyance attack by individual or collective creditors.