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On February 6, 2018, we advised that BC's Attorney General was intending to revamp our province's motor vehicle tort system.

On April 22, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged W2007 Grace Acquisition I Inc., a real estate investment firm, with failing to make required public filings...

On February 10, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that two former CFOs have agreed to return bonuses and stock sale profits they received while the company they worked for was committing accounting fraud.

Whether an employee has been issued a temporary layoff notice, is unable to return to work due to childcare being unavailable, or whether an employee simply refuses to come back to work in the office...

The CSA published amendments to National Instruments 51–102, 41–101 and 52–110 that would streamline disclosure by venture issuers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been all pervasive, taking lives, exhausting our front line workers, throwing people out of work, and threatening decades of hard work by business owners building their legacy.

On January 22, 2014, an administrative law judge for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") ruled that the Chinese firms affiliated with the Big Four accounting firms, which are PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst & Young, should be denied the privilege of practicing or appearing before the SEC for a period of six months, which means that a company could not use an audit report by these firms to satisfy their SEC filing obligations.

Pursuant to the new Pay Transparency Act, as of this week on November 1, 2023, employers in BC are subject to certain posting and reporting obligations.

Canadians are facing a variety of employment-related challenges as businesses start to reopen and employees are called back to work.

Effective March 28, 2023 upon the tabling of the 2023 Federal Budget, divorced or separated parents can open joint RESPs for one or more of their children, or move an existing joint RESP to another RESP promoter.

In cases where the donor places a condition or restriction on a gift, it can be more difficult to determine when the gift became effective.

Following our post from July 2015, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office ("CIPO") is now accepting trade-mark applications filed with goods and services classified...

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has once again extended its earlier automatic extensions (previously covering deadlines falling between March 16, 2020 and April 30, 2020, as discussed here).

We previously reported on the proposed Bill 15: Infrastructure Projects Act, here, aimed to expedite the construction of infrastructure projects in BC deemed provincially...

In its 30-Point Plan for Housing Affordability in British Columbia, the provincial government plans to introduce a new speculation tax on residential property, as part of its efforts to service local residents as...

A recent decision by British Columbia's Property Assessment Appeal Board (the "Board") on the application of the additional school tax (the "AST") may have implications for landowners and ...

The COVID-19 outbreak is having a significant impact on lenders and borrowers in relation to existing and new credit arrangements.