The federal government has announced October 17, 2018 as the date it comes into force.

Most inventors realise that they shouldn’t show their ideas to too many people before they have applied for patent protection.

On March 13, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") announced regulatory relief for investment advisers whose operations may be affected by the coronavirus (the "Order").

Reducing cancer and noncancer risks from flame retardants has become a priority, to one degree or another, of the Environmental Protection Agency, the European Union's, the State of California, and other regulatory programs, but it has proven and will continue to prove to be a difficult task balancing that goal with the goal of minimizing risks from fires.

The EAR amendments are expected to take effect June 5, 2019 upon publication in the Federal Register.

On April 20, OFAC issued COVID-related guidance indicating that it encourages those subject to its jurisdiction to contact the OFAC staff if they believe they will have difficulty meeting OFAC deadlines..

On September 14, 2017, Justice Sanfilippo of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted summary judgment dismissing the plaintiff's occupiers' liability claim, stating that without objective evidence pointing to the cause of her slip and fall, the claim could not succeed.

One of the significant risks that creditors weigh when deciding whether to lend money is bankruptcy risk: can the borrower use the bankruptcy laws to discharge the debt or compel the creditor to accept less than it bargained for?

On March 31, 2008 Canada's Competition Bureau announced the conclusion of its investigation into the policies of the National Hockey League for the approval of transfers of ownership and relocations of franchises.

As mentioned in our previous post, there is a limited right of public access to approvals documents that are part of an application for an Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA), or are part of the ECA itself, during an application for leave to appeal that ECA to the Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT).

We reported earlier in this blog on the dispute between the City of Hamilton and Canada Post.

There were clearly lessons to learn from that order, including the importance of knowing and adhering to the expectations of the judge before whom you are practicing.

The educational community has recently received a wake-up call when Hamilton College was hit with a class action involving its paid interns.

There is a cliché that you wait ages for a bus then three or four come along at once.

In Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. v. Sunbeam Products, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s finding that the asserted claims were invalid under the on sale bar of 35 USC § 102(b) due to a purchase order between Hamilton Beach and it’s supplier.

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The federal government has proclaimed January 22, 2024 as the coming into force date for certain provisions of the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) that were enacted by the Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1...

The amendments Bill 88, Working for Workers Act, 2022 made to the Occupational Health & Safety Act, which require certain employers to have a naloxone kit in the workplace, have been proclaimed...

On April 28, 2022, the federal government tabled Bill C-19, Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1, giving effect to the initiatives found in its April 7, 2022 budget, A Plan to Grow Our Economy and Make Life More Affordable.

The Ontario Labour Relations Board (the OLRB) has provided guidance on the extent of an employer's disclosure obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA)