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On April 27, 2023, the BC Securities Commission (the BCSC) announced details concerning its new powers.

In a landmark unanimous franchise class action decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court decision to invalidate certain opt out notices delivered in a class proceeding between Pet Valu Canada Inc. ("Pet Valu") and its franchisees.

The Provincial Court of British Columbia dismissed the claims of a franchised business purchaser seeking to rely on purported non-competition provisions.

Generally, directors in Canada are mandated by statute to oversee the business and affairs of their respective corporations. With that mandate comes a variety...

On April 23, 2025, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced that it is pausing its work on developing a new mandatory climate-related disclosure rule and amendments...

On August 31, 2022, certain amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) and related regulations affecting the election of directors will come into force.

Executive compensation disclosure requirements in Canada are changing for financial years ending on or after December 31, 2008. Amendments to the disclosure requirements are aimed at improving transparency surrounding executive compensation.

Cassels and ACG recently co-hosted an event entitled "An Insider's Perspective on Shaping Canada's Economic Future" and a number of observations were shared...

Kingsway Financial Services Inc. v. Kobex Capital Corp. is noteworthy in emphasizing that, when determining whether a take-over bid has occurred, joint actor status is fact dependent and must relate to the take-over bid.

In the past, many technical reports contained some type of disclaimer from the qualified person who authored the report.

As a result of recently passed amendments to the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (OBCA), private corporations incorporated under that statute will soon be required to maintain...

Since June 13, 2019, most private corporations incorporated federally under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) have been required to maintain a register (an ISC Register)...

On July 1, 2015, the regulations setting out the process for mutual property and casualty (or, P&C) companies to convert to share companies (demutualization) came into force.

On January 6, 2022, in Markowich v Lundin Mining Corporation,1 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice denied leave to commence a secondary market securities class action under Part XXIII.

On June 30, 2016, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published for comment Proposed Rule 72-503 Distributions Outside of Canada (the Proposed Rule)...

A motion to strike a plaintiff's reply expert report on a motion for leave under Part XXIII.1 of the Securities Act (Ontario) has been granted on the basis that the rule against case-splitting prevents a party from ...

In 2022, the Competition Bureau (the Bureau) launched a study of grocery store competition in Canada and released its report in June 2023...