John McCormick, an equity partner in the law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, filed a complaint with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.

A High Court Master has found that the court must maintain privilege in the documents of a dissolved company unless and until there is no prospect of the company being restored to the register:

We have always covered international legal developments on this blog because e-commerce and m-commerce are not confined to geographical boundaries and because there is much to be learned from other jurisdictions in this evolving area of the law.

When are the parties to a civil tax dispute bound by agreed facts from a criminal proceeding?

The Autorité des marchés financiers has published a consultation paper inviting comments on an alternative approach to that contemplated by the Canadian Securities Administrators.

In a short technical interpretation (CRA Document 2015-0579031I7 "Crowdfunding" (April 1, 2015)), the CRA has restated its views on the tax treatment of amounts raised via crowdfunding arrangements.

Two important developments were announced today that affect how Canadian reporting issuers can raise capital from their existing security holders...

On February 6, 2014, the Ontario Securities Commission released OSC Staff Notice 51-722 Report on a Review of Mining Issuers’ Management’s Discussion and Analysis Guidance.

The OSC issued recently Staff Notice 43‑705 addressing OSC concerns with respect to disclosure in technical reports.

For the first time in Canada, an individual has been sentenced to jail time for bribing a foreign public official.

A $200,000.00 fine was "manifestly unfit", the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled, in raising Metron Construction’s fine to $750,000 for criminal negligence after four workers died on Christmas Eve, 2009.

Vadim Kazenelson, the project manager for Metron Construction, was sentenced today to 3½ years in prison for criminal negligence.

An employer has been ordered to pay aggravated damages – in addition to lost wages – after firing an employee in retaliation for raising safety issues.

There is an old, and somewhat cynical saying, that no good deed goes unpunished. While I personally disagree with that saying, one employer must believe it after a decision it received.

The decision in H.T. v ES Holdings Inc. o/a Country Herbs ("Country Herbs") 2015 HRTO 1067 (CanLII) serves as a reminder to employers of the significant liability that they face when a claim of discrimination is made out.

Direct evidence of discrimination is not required for an employee to succeed before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Tribunal has decided.

An employee who lied to and misled her employer about her ability to perform her work as a reporter, was fired for just cause, and arbitrator has held.

An employer's internal e-mails showed that a "professional standards investigation" conducted on an employee was actually a retaliation for the employee's work refusal, an adjudicator has held, finding a violation of the Canada Labour Code.

An employer’s corrective action taken after an accident did not entitle it to a reduced fine under the "Occupational Health and Safety Act".

Police have laid criminal negligence charges against a professional engineer in relation to the Elliot Lake mall collapse in June 2012.