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On March 26, 2024, the Ontario government tabled its 2024 Budget (Budget) and introduced Bill 180, Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180).

In its decision in Bowes v. Goss Power Products Ltd., released on June 21, 2012, the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed that an employee’s success in finding other employment will not reduce termination payments due under a contract, unless the employment contract contains clear and specific wording to the contrary.

New income tax legislation relating to non-resident trusts is expected to be enacted early in the new year. The legislation is contained in Bill C-10 which is now before the Senate.

On March 7, 2023, the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia introduced Bill 13, the Pay Transparency Act. Bill 13 proposes that all B.C. employers be required to include wage or salary ranges...

On Thursday, June 22, 2006, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated decision in Rogers Communications Incorporated v. Buschau (Buschau).

With the evolving landscape of pay transparency and pay equity legislation across Canada, employers face increasing complexities and compliance challenges.

On August 2, 2011, Brad Duguid, Ontario’s Energy Minister, announced that the Ontario government had initiated a change to create greater contractual certainty at the project approval stage of the province’s feed-in-tariff (FIT) program.

On March 31, 2023, Hydro-Québec issued a call for tenders (A/O 2023-01) for a total of 1,500 megawatts of electricity generated from wind power. This follows the Government of Quebec's...

The deadline for submitting comments on the Ontario proposal expires on January 28, 2019.

In the current low interest rate environment, yield-hungry investors have been particularly attracted to real estate investment trusts...

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) staff provided notice (the Staff Notice) about a temporary suspension of the TSX’s listing and trading rules relating to normal course issuer bids (NCIB) by TSX-listed issuers (U.S. Interlisted Issuers) that are also listed on a national securities exchange in the United States (U.S. Exchange).

While the core principles have changed little, emerging technologies, evolving litigation tactics and increasingly sophisticated investigations are prompting courts to examine where privilege begins...

The British Columbia government recently introduced a bill that will, if passed, make it easier to cancel a strata plan and wind up a strata corporation under the Strata Property Act (Act).

The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (AJCA) contains numerous international tax provisions that may be relevant to companies with foreign subsidiaries. Section 422 enables a U.S. corporation to repatriate eligible earnings from offshore affiliates during a designated taxable year with a modest U.S. tax cost. If specified investment requirements and other criteria are met, the taxpayer may claim an 85% dividends received deduction, but no foreign tax credit or deduction for foreign taxes paid.

The B.C. Minister of Finance Michael de Jong has recently tabled the B.C. provincial budget for the 2013/2014 fiscal year.

Finance Minister Joe Oliver tabled the 2015 federal budget before the House of Commons on April 21, 2015.

Change abounds in 2020,particularly in the legal world. Amendments to laws and government policies are redefining how companies conduct business.

Can a joint bid for control of a business (also referred to as a ‘club bid’) constitute an illegal price fixing arrangement under Canada’s “Competition Act”?