On June 19, 2018, the Canadian Senate voted in favour of the Federal Government's Cannabis Act, paving the way for Royal Assent and legalization of cannabis in Canada.

All foreign investments in Canada, regardless of dollar value, are subject to the national security provisions of the Investment Canada Act (the "ICA"), including greenfield investments.

In July 2023, we published a newsletter detailing proposed legislative changes affecting suppliers of agricultural products and lenders working with borrowers in the agricultural supply chain.

A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (MDS Inc. v. Factory Mutual Insurance Company suggests that closures due to COVID-19 could trigger coverage under some business interruption policies.

Canada sets TRQs for supply managed goods.

For those employers that hire employees through the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program, the government late last year legislated some "housekeeping" changes that will have to be considered.

The Province of Quebec is the only jurisdiction in Canada that administers a registration regime regulating contests and sweepstakes.

The Supreme Court of British Columbia heard arguments from February 3 to 7, 2020 from a coalition of British Columbia's largest construction associations (the "Coalition")...

On April 1, 2020 we wrote about O.Reg. 73/20 which suspended limitation periods imposed by any Ontario law retroactive to March 16, 2020.

Our office has been successful in the recent case of TSCC 2519 v. Emerald PG Holdings et al, 2021 where the Honourable Justice Vella of the Superior Court of Justice confirmed that when a unit owner...

In our last post on construction contracts, we discussed a number of considerations including: Scope of Work, Limitation of Liability Indemnities, Payment Terms and Certainty of Terms.

Jasmin Lefebvre, avocat spécialisé en droit de la construction depuis 28 ans et associé de notre bureau de Montréal, commente le projet de Colisée de Trois-Rivières lors d'une entrevue à Radio-Canada.

You are contacted by a client who is owed money on a construction project and wants to commence a statutory adjudication under the Construction Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.30 (the "Act").

A non-charitable, non-profit organization is required by the Income Tax Act of Canada to be "operated for a purpose other than profit."

Effective July 1, 2021, major changes to the GST/HST regime as it relates to e-commerce and the digital economy came into effect. We previously reported on these measures when they were first announced in the...

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security identified two prominent types of ransomware in its September 2021 awareness series: Ransomware: How to prevent and recover (ITSAP.00.099):

The Public Health Agency of Canada ("PHAC") has announced that effective October 1, 2022, the Government of Canada will remove all remaining COVID-19 entry restrictions...

On Tuesday, January 15, 2019, the UK House of Commons soundly rejected the "soft" Brexit deal negotiated with the EU over the past two years, and with just 10 weeks remaining until the March 29, 2019

An international working group has been formed to evaluate the approach of competition law agencies in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe relating to pharmaceutical merger reviews.

Recently, the International Trade Commission ("ITC") began a global safeguard investigation under section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 into whether the large amounts of blueberries being imported...