A financial institution's cyber risk management activities may result in sensitive communications and documents that the institution's personnel expect will remain confidential.

The Panama Papers, which continue to dominate headlines worldwide are an important reminder that maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive information is a significant challenge in today's world.

Commencing January 1, 2019, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada will begin enforcing Guidelines for obtaining meaningful consent, which impose new requirements for private sector organizations to obtain legally valid privacy consents.

The construction industry is heavily regulated and unionized in the Province of Québec as provided by An Act respecting labour relations, vocational training and workforce management...

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Budget 2019 highlighted the Federal Government's intention to limit the preferential treatment of employee stock options under tax legislation to restrict benefits currently available to mature...

On March 4, 2022, the Tax Court of Canada announced a pilot program to allow various forms of e-signing of four classes of documents previously requiring ink signature.

The application for leave to appeal the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision in Prescient Foundation v Minister of National Revenue was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") with costs on November 28, 2013.

Canadian tax authorities continue to aggressively pursue taxpayer information, using the extensive powers granted to them under tax legislation.

Following similar forums held in 2018 and 2023, the Canadian Securities Regulatory Organization (CIRO) is hosting another series of cybersecurity table-top exercises for investment dealers and mutual fund dealers on September 30 (Toronto) and October 7 (Calgary). The forum is intended to allow participants to discuss threats, gaps in response plans and best practices through targeted case scenarios. All CIRO members are invited to participate, and CIRO has separately requested input on the development of the case scenarios.

While the bulletin is targetted towards small and medium size enterprises, financial institutions will find much of the advice equally applicable to their businesss.

The Superior Court followed prior decisions in confirming that the putative class members were bound by their respective collective bargaining agreements, which provided for binding arbitration,...

Learn about the limitation of liability in multimodal transportation involving rail and the effect of tariffs.

AUM Law is proud to sponsor the Q Wealth Partners National Conference held at the St. Regis Hotel in Toronto on December 7-9.

The UK Charity Commission is consulting with the public around its proposed approach to using new statutory power to issue official warnings to charities and trustees.

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