Every organization that CASL affects should now be complying with it – and their directors and officers need to make sure they do.

In Krayzel Corp. v. Equitable Trust Co. The mortgagor granted the lender a mortgage at an interest rate of prime plus 2.875% per annum to secure a $27M loan. The parties subsequently entered two mortgage renewal agreements.

Healthcare practitioners in Newfoundland and Labrador cannot claim privilege over "quality assurance" information when it comes to sharing it with professional regulatory bodies.

The new rules are intended to ensure accurate container weights are available through the supply chain to reduce the risk of container stack collapses and vessel instability caused or contributed to by inaccurately declared container weights.

The N.S. Court of Appeal has reached two decisions ending one employee's quest for coverage of the costs of his medical marijuana – at least for now.

Doing business with the public sector creates an often overlooked – but very real – risk that the confidential information a business typically discloses will end up in a competitor's hands.

The decision will likely generate a more nuanced discussion about expectations of privacy in places that are generally public.

On October 19, 2017, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) announced it had adopted amendments to its Company Manual.

The Federal Government proposed applying flat top-rate taxation to grandfathered inter vivos trusts and trusts created by will and certain estates beginning with the 2016 taxation year.

Business owners wear many hats – including employer. Your employees may be your business's greatest asset, but they could also be your greatest liability when you sell it.

On January 27, 2017, the governments of the four Atlantic provinces and the federal government announced details of the Atlantic Immigration Pilot.

As 2016 draws to a close, Oil & Gas Team @ McInnes Cooper offers its picks for the top three legal developments of 2016 that impacted the Atlantic Canada offshore oil & gas sector.

In three years (lightning speed in the law), medically assisted dying went from being illegal to being legal. A great deal has changed, a great deal will still change, and a great deal of uncertainty...

Companies engaged in the cannabis supply chain are highly regulated by federal and provincial cannabis-specific laws as well as a myriad of other laws, like environmental, workplace and agrifood-related laws.

The decision makes it clear that there are limits to both what a person can leave her money for and to whom she leaves it.

On November 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada decided privilege wins again – twice. The Court declared first litigation privilege, then solicitor-client privilege, the winner over competing statutory disclosure obligations.

Using social media influencers and micro-influencers is an increasingly effective marketing strategy. Social media use is pervasive; 94% of online Canadian adults have at least one social...

On February 14, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada decided yet another criminal law decision that will likely have broader ramifications for privacy law

Over the past 15 years, most of the Supreme Court of Canada's decisions respecting Indigenous Peoples in Canada have revolved around the Crown's duty of consultation.

On November 30, 2018, a majority of the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada decided the media doesn't get any special protection from the issuance of production orders without prior notice (a.k.a. ex parte) – yet.