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.

The Ontario Divisional Court quashed an application for judicial review by an employee seeking to overturn an arbitrator’s decision denying his grievance.

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.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt recently let it be known that the Canadian federal government will for the first time be requiring some shippers of crude oil by rail or truck to put in place Emergency Response Assistance Plans (ERAPs) under the federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992.

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.

In Logan v. Hong, the British Columbia Court of Appeal considered whether third party doctors across Canada were required to provide plaintiff’s counsel with the names and contact information of patients the doctors had injected with defendants’ product.

In 2010, the provinces and territories announced the creation the Pan-Canadian Pricing Alliance.

Canada is one of the few developed countries without a specific regulatory framework for drugs for rare diseases, often termed "orphan drugs".

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.

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