Ontario government proposes sweeping changes to the planning and development system

On May 2, 2019, the Government of Ontario released its Housing Supply Action Plan called “More Homes, More Choice.” It consists of sweeping...

UK SFO Speeding Up Investigations

The Director of the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (the “SFO”) – the U.K’s primary enforcement authority for economic...

Prompt payment and adjudication for federal projects

Building on the momentum of Ontario’s new Construction Act, the federal government now proposes the Federal Prompt Payment for Construction Work...

Saskatchewan Court of Appeal upholds constitutionality of federal carbon pricing regime

On May 3, 2019, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal issued a majority decision that the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (the GGPPA) was...

Ontario amends pension legislation to address electronic beneficiary designations

Pension plan administrators are implementing electronic tools as part of their administration processes with increasing frequency. This can be...

Supreme Court of Canada: Error for Court of Appeal to make factual finding trial judge declined to make

In brief oral reasons from the bench, the Supreme Court of Canada recently held in R. v. Wakefield, 2019 SCC 26 that it was an error for the Court of...

Impending federal regulations on workplace violence and harassment

New workplace harassment and violence rules will apply to Federally Regulated Employers. The public policy agenda behind these and similar...

NASAA targets ‘cross-selling’ sales tactic in investment and banking sectors

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) is an association of securities administrators from Canada, the United States of...

Appeal quashed from “without prejudice” dismissal of motion for non-party production

In Quenneville v. Robert Bosch GMBH, 2019 ONCA 235, the Court of Appeal for Ontario recently weighed back into the final-interlocutory debate in the...

IIROC moving forward with new enforcement tools

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, Canada’s national investment dealer self-regulatory organization, has announced it...