On July 27, 2017 Staff of the security regulatory authorities of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba and New Brunswick (Staff) published a notice (Notice) advising market participants...

Whole agreement, or entire agreement, clauses can be found in most commercial contracts. This type of clause serves to confirm the scope of the agreement...

In June, 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) issued its first two international financial reporting standards on sustainability: IFRS S1, which addresses sustainability-related disclosure...

On December 6, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) held two forest products companies liable for the costs of remediating and maintaining a waste disposal site...

Starting in the first quarter of this year, Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) plans to start randomly testing some of its employees for drugs and alcohol at its northern Alberta worksites.

On December 19, 2016 the Government of Canada released its much anticipated guidelines on the national security review of investments under the Investment Canada Act (the "National Security Guidelines").

The "distress preferred share" (DPS) provisions in the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the Tax Act) present an opportunity to reduce financing costs for a borrower.

The federal government released Budget 2017 on March 22, 2017 ("Budget Day").

On August 30, the Federal Court of Appeal released its decision in Tsleil-Waututh Nation v. Canada regarding the Governor in Council's (GIC) approval of the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) in 2016.

Under Canadian securities legislation, insiders (including all employees of a company) are restricted from trading in their company's securities when they are in possession of MNPI.

On February 25, 2022, after consultation with construction industry stakeholders and legal counsel, including Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP, the Alberta Government published the Prompt Payment and Adjudication Regulations...

Since the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Bhasin v. Hrynew (Bhasin), the extent of the contractual duties of good faith and honesty have been of significant interest to commercial contracting parties.

In 2019, the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) was amended to include a requirement for private CBCA corporations to create and maintain a register of individuals with significant...

On June 4, 2020, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) released amendments to National Instrument 44-102 Shelf Distributions (NI 44-102) ...

In response to the Canada Post suspension, which began on September 25, 2025, the Canadian Securities Administrators published Coordinated Blanket Order 51-932, which grants temporary relief to certain issuers from proxy material delivery requirements for annual shareholder meetings.

Dealing with climate change is one of the most significant global imperatives of our time. The world needs solutions that can be acted upon locally, nationally, regionally and globally.

On April 18, 2020, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (the Minister) issued a policy statement (the COVID-19 Policy) announcing a shift in the Federal Government's approach...

On September 30, 2022, the Alberta Court of Appeal released its decision in Cavendish Farms Corporation v. Lethbridge (City), 2022 ABCA 312. The Court found that the reasons...

On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court of Canada (the Supreme Court) released its unanimous decision in Opsis Airport Services Inc. v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2025 SCC 17.

As ransomware threats intensify across Canada's energy sector and beyond, organizations face mounting pressure to protect their IT and OT systems from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.