All Canadian jurisdictions will have carbon pricing in place by 2018 at a minimum of $10 per tonne of CO2 emissions.

On August 31, 2016, Ontario signed a Joint Declaration with Mexico and Quebec, pledging to work together "in the fight against climate change."

Ontario's MOECC has confirmed that a decision has been made to proceed with amended regulations to facilitate the linkage of Ontario's Cap and Trade program with California and Quebec.

In the midst of the ongoing restructurings of Nortel and AbitibiBowater, the New Democrats introduced Bill C-501 in the spring of 2010 to amend the "Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act" (the "BIA") and the "Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act" (the "CCAA") with the goal of better protecting employees’ interests in the context of formal insolvency proceedings, including pension interests.

A number of payment scams have been propogated recently which focus on lawyers.

Regulatory amendments that became effective on July 1, 2018 significantly expand the disclosure and information-gathering obligations of mortgage brokerages dealing in non-qualified syndicated mortgage transactions.

This article is the sixth in a series providing an overview of critical considerations for commercial lenders contemplating whether to finance a tech company and how such loans can be secured.

Historically, commercial lenders have favoured lending to businesses rich in tangible assets that can be used to provide security for loans.

As one of the members of the Aird & Berlis Cannabis Group who deals with a lot of M&As, I thought that I may have something useful to add to the conversation about mergers and acquisitions within the cannabis industry.

On February 14, the Ontario government announced that it had successfully issued a $1 billion green bond. This is the fourth green bond issued by the Government of Ontario ...

"Cheers to democracy!" said no young voter in the post-Brexit aftermath.

The hunt for Amazon's second headquarters continues to dominate tech sector news.

On May 24, 2022, the National Assembly of Québec adopted Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec ("Bill 96"), reforming language laws in the province.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) fights a sophisticated war against athletes and those around them who attempt to artificially manipulate the athlete's body to enhance training and performance.

I concluded by questioning whether these differences might be purely situational, and perhaps fleeting in nature.

The CRTC is in the midst of an ongoing review of the local and community television policy framework.

April 4, 2022, is the date that two important Canadian gaming legislative and regulatory changes – each years in the making – come to fruition

On the "deja vu all over again" front, recent developments relating to online television content in Canada have stirred up memories of the good old days of "grey market" and "black market" satellite dishes.

Consumers are primarily concerned with consent, use and transparency surrounding the data that is being collected by IoT devices.

Subject to certain limited exceptions, federal and provincial privacy legislation in Canada requires the consent of the relevant individual prior to disclosing the individual's personal information.