Surprisingly, name tag policies have become the subject of recent litigation and labour board decisions on the topic have been hitting the news.

A recent decision from the California Labour Commission (the Commission) has held that drivers from the popular Uber service are employees and not independent contractors.

A few people have recently learned that publicly embarassing yourself outside of work can have a serious impact at work.

Industry professionals envision an increase in shareholder activism in light of falling prices and growing activist investor successes.

A recent report by the Royal Bank of Canada reveals that lower oil prices may result in cuts to business investment in the oil and gas industry.

On May 5th, the Bank of Canada released a consultation paper on changes that it is considering making to its Emergency Lending Assistance program.

Going public is, expectedly, the goal of many private companies and their founders. There are two methods of taking a private company public—initial public offerings (IPO) and reverse take-overs (RTO)—that draw the most attention in our capital markets and headlines, most often because of the lucrative opportunities or surprising arrangements that they create.

On February 25, 2015, regulations amending the annual statement requirements for federally regulated financial institutions (FRFIs) were published in the Canada Gazette.

The US Deputy Attorney General, Sally Quillian Yates, recently released a memorandum (Yates Memo) in which she outlined a new strategy to help combat corporate fraud and other wrongdoing.

Last October 19th, a new federal Liberal government was elected ending nine years of rule by the Conservative Party.

Construction contracts are not affected by this amendment and will continue to be subject to the current $5 million threshold that was established in October 2014.

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When conducting business abroad, most enterprises, businesspeople and investors realize they may be subject to legal action in the jurisdictions where they do business if a dispute arises out of that activity.

Social media apps and networking websites are exploding in the world of social media. Just last year, Apple announced that its Apple iOS App Store reached a landmark 40 billion downloads and 775,000 apps for its platform.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the CRTC) recently issued another notice of violation under Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL), this time against Plentyoffish Media Inc., a corporation offering dating services to nearly 100 million users, some of which are located in Canada.

One characteristic consequence of a share sale is, generally, that the vendor realizes a capital gain. Canadian resident shareholders are generally taxed on half of the amount of the capital gain.

In February we wrote about a discussion draft of Action 6 of the Action Plan on Base Erosion developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development at the request of the G20.

Transport by road is a major and developed industry in Canada and the United States.

As such, companies looking to merge or acquire VCFCs should be wary of these trends and should look to protect themselves from unfortunate results.

As seen elsewhere in this blog, the volume of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the first half of 2015 (H1 2015) reached near record-setting heights.