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The Ontario Superior Court's recent decision in Parkhill Excavating Limited v Robert E. Young Construction Limited is an interesting snapshot of how Canadian courts treat product liability ...

The Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) loan is now available to eligible small businesses and not-for-profits (collectively, Eligible Businesses)

Certain foreign investments will be subject to enhanced scrutiny under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) until the economy recovers from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian government announced on April 18, 2020.

On March 20, 2020, the Lieutenant Governor in Council of Ontario made an order under s. 7.1 of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act suspending limitation periods and procedural time periods (the Suspension Order).

On July 16, 2020, the Quebec Superior Court (the Court) released its decision in Hengyun International Investment Commerce Inc. v. 9368-7614 Quebec Inc., 2020 QCCS 2251.

On March 25, 2020, Bill C-13, the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act (the Act) received Royal Assent. This new legislation creates the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB),...

In recent years, changes to the landscape of corporate riskhave prompted companies subject to such regulations to be seriously focused on adopting and implementing rigorous internal policies, practices and compliance procedures.

On May 24, 2022, the Québec National Assembly voted to pass Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec, which amends the Charter of the French Language(the Charter).

Court of Appeal reiterates that business judgment rule is a rebuttable presumption; lack of expert advice to support, or reasonable, objective justification of, board decisions fatal to reliance.

On June 11, 2018, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the CSA) issued CSA Staff Notice 46-308 – Securities Law Implications for Offerings of Tokens.

While the nature and extent of due diligence in a private equity transaction is deal-specific, increasing globalization and use of electronic data storage and dissemination practices...

When a franchise relationship ceases, the franchisee generally has an obligation to deidentify, which means to stop using the intellectual property of the franchisor and to cease...

In Mendoza v. Active Tire & Auto Centre Inc., Justice Dow of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice appears to have put a new gloss on the test for rescission under section 6(2) of the Wishart Act.

This decision may cause franchisors to pause before seeking to enforce a restrictive covenant covering a territory that they do not plan to re-franchise.

The franchisor, Springdale Pizza Depot Ltd., appealed the original decision that it could not avail itself of the resale disclosure exemption.

In the recent decision of Frank v. Farlie, Turner & Co., LLC, 2011 ONSC 5519, Mr. Justice Perell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found, among other things, that punitive damages are not available under Part XXIII.1 of the Ontario Securities Act as such damages are inconsistent with the scheme and purpose of Ontario’s statutory secondary market disclosure liability regime.

Is it Time for You to Consider Revising your Canadian Franchise Agreement to Remove the Risk?

In Hepburn v. AlarmForce,1 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice considered the question of what constitutes a material change under the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure), 2000.