Amending Bill 37: Alberta’s prompt payment regime

On October 21, 2020, the Government of Alberta introduced Bill 37 titled the Builders’ Lien (Prompt Payment) Amendment Act,...

Amending Bill 37: Alberta’s prompt payment regime

While Bill 37, titled the Builders’ Lien (Prompt Payment) Amendment Act, 2020, passed second reading on October 28, 2020, the prompt payment...

Canadian Federal Privacy Law Reform: Initial Commentary and Insights

The Federal government has released a Bill proposing significant change to the national framework for the protection of personal information in Canada

Are cap tables a challenge?

Although used widely, the cap table may prove to be challenging. A constantly evolving work in progress, a cap table may be tamed by using a...

IIROC Rules: Respondent use of complainant interview in related proceeding is in the public interest

In Re Malic, 2020 IIROC 37, a decision released on October 6, 2020, the IIROC Hearing Panel (Alberta District) (the “Hearing Panel”)...

Taking Ownership: Board’s role in preventing, detecting and addressing corporate wrongdoing

Taking Ownership: Board's role in preventing, detecting and addressing corporate wrongdoing

Canadian patent office issues guidance on computer-implemented and medical inventions following Choueifaty decision

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has issued new guidance explaining how CIPO intends to apply the decision in Yves Choueifaty v...

EHG 101 series: Cybersecurity from a vendor/service provider perspective

High profile cybersecurity breaches are the ones that most often make news headlines, but even those not in the spotlight can cost organizations...