Christine Carron, member of our Privacy and access to information team, reminds you about some important elements you should keep in mind concerning Canada’s new anti-spam law.

Trademarks that have no registered French version may be displayed on public signs and advertising in Quebec.

Class actions have a long history in Canada. Quebec first enacted class action legislation in 1978 and the two largest common law provinces, Ontario and British Columbia, followed suit in the early 1990s.

Le 16 octobre 2015, Mme Johanne Bélisle, Commissaire aux brevets, Registraire des marques de commerce et Présidente de l'Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada (OPIC) a prononcé une allocution durant l'Assemblée annuelle de l'Institut de la propriété intellectuelle

Changes to the Canada Labour Code took effect. Among the changes are a new 6-month limitation period for filing a claim for unpaid wages and a cap on the amount of wages that can be awarded.

Changes to the Canada Labour Code became effective April 1, 2014 including amendment of the time limits for making complaints of unpaid wages.

Wylie Spicer of our Calgary office and authority on Canadian maritime law discusses legal issues affecting LNG shipping from Canada

In recent report entitled Dealing with exchange rates – Currency fluctuation and M&A, Toppan Vite, in partnership with MergerMarket, examined the effect that currency events – both short term and long term – have on M&A activity.

In the latest issue of Ethical Boardroom, Walied Soliman and Orestes Pasparakis discuss activism in the Canadian corporate landscape and expectations for the 2015 proxy season.

Derek Burney, Senior Strategic Advisor at Norton Rose Fulbright in Canada and former Canadian Ambassador to Korea and the United States, discusses the importance of foreign investment into Canada and political considerations in light of recent changes to the Investment Canada Act.

In Boucher v Wal-Mart Canada Corp., 2014 ONCA 419, the Ontario Court of Appeal significantly reduced the punitive damages and dismissed the employee’s claim for loss of wages.

An Ontario court held in The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada v. Canada, 2014 ONSC 965 that the federal Expenditure Restraint Act was not contrary to the freedom of association of unionized employees under s. 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

On July 6, 2013, shortly before 1:00 am, a Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway freight train which was parked for the night on a hill seven miles above Lac Megantic, Quebec started to roll.

Class action regimes are frequently used to advance claims arising in the context of each jurisdiction's securities markets.

The Ontario Labour Relations Board overturned an employment standards officer's direction to an employer to pay $11,000 to a terminated employee in Exel Canada Ltd v McCarthy, 2014 CanLII 19404.

The Supreme Court heard argument and reserved judgment on appeal from an Ontario Court of Appeal decision addressing RCMP collective bargaining.

FracFocus is widely used by the oil and gas industry for chemical disclosures. Thus far, at least twenty states rely on the website to store its disclosures.

On October 16, 2015, Ms. Johanne Bélisle, Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trademarks and Chief Executive Officer at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), gave a keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Intellectual Property Institute (IPIC) ..

Le 28 avril dernier, à notre bureau de Montréal, nous avons organisé une conférence portant sur les principales modifications touchant la propriété intellectuelle au Canada...

On April 14th, we hosted a webinar highlighting issues on privacy and access to information in the digital age.