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In the recent BC Supreme Court decision of Strata Plan NW 1815 v Aradi, 2016 BCSC 105, the Court clarified its authority to step in and enforce bylaws enacted by strata councils.

An audit of Health Canada's information technology ("IT") systems (the "Audit") found a long list of problems, including, among others, insufficient or inefficient tracking of IT assets...

In recent years, the phrase "data breach" has firmly established its place in the public vernacular, and it is not difficult to understand why this has occurred.

The adoption of a municipal zoning by-law that changes a property's zoning to "conservation" may result in disguised expropriation and force the municipality to compensate the landowner...

The Competition Bureau recently announced that Empire (the parent company of IGA, Sobeys, etc.), agreed to remove an exclusive/restrictive covenant in favour of the IGA...

Effective January 1, 2005, the Canada Revenue Agency (the "CRA") has reversed its long-standing administrative policy on single-purpose corporations typically used by Canadian residents who own residential real estate or vacation properties in the United States. Consequently, many issues arise from an estate planning perspective for Canadian residents who already own or who plan to purchase personal-use residential property in the US.

Hickey's Building Supplies Limited was recently heard at the Newfoundland Court of Appeal.1 It suggests that Courts are becoming more willing to award damages for mental distress for breach of a contract.

As the New Year has begun, it is a good time to ponder the major events over the past year and the lessons learned from them.

They will have a tangible impact on the way developers design, build and operate their projects.

A recent decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal, released February 5, 2013, has held that where a buyer has paid a deposit with respect to the purchase of real property and then subsequently fails to complete the transaction, the deposit will be forfeited by the buyer without the seller needing to prove damages provided the contract states that the deposit will be forfeited "on account of damages."

The newly elected Ontario Premier Doug Ford is drawing new lines – literally. Premier Ford's announcement to cut city-council positions from 47 to 25 was made just hours before the municipal election deadline ..

Old office buildings, tired shopping centres, run-down industrial parks – all are potential redevelopment opportunities.

Budget 2014 contained two changes of particular interest to the Canadian resource and energy sectors

In order to prevent non-residents of Canada from stripping profits from Canadian corporations in the form of deductible interest, the "Income Tax Act" (Canada) has a set of rules designed to limit the amount of deductible interest that can be paid by a Canadian corporation to specified non-resident shareholders.

In Budget 2017, the federal Government proposed new rules that will permit mutual fund corporations constituted as "switch" funds to be reorganized, on a tax-deferred basis, as separate mutual fund trusts.

The Income Tax Act (Canada) (the "Tax Act") generally permits a corporation to deduct the amount of a dividend received from another corporation resident in Canada...

On March 1, 2015, the Government announced two changes of interest to the Canadian resource sector.

The Ontario government presented its 2012 Budget (the "Budget") in the Ontario Legislature earlier this week.