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A tempest of change: impact of climate-related litigation and regulation

It was a year of significant change for climate-related litigation and regulation in 2023. The volume of climate litigation increased significantly...

White-collar enforcement will continue to take shape in 2024

Canada continued to face international criticism for its perceived lack of white-collar crime enforcement in 2023.

Capital markets enforcement: innovative, and controversial, new directions

There were a number of intersecting trends in the capital markets regulatory and enforcement landscape in 2023. These trends can serve as a window...

CSA and CIRO review comments but come to no conclusion (yet) on short selling regulatory regime

The Canadian Securities Administrators and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization have released stakeholder comments and responses solicited...

Abuse of process revisited? British Columbia Court of Appeal grants leave application from ruling of British Columbia Securities Commission

The British Columbia Court of Appeal will hear a case that raises important questions concerning how persons subject to prosecution by administrative...

B.C. Securities Commission program offers monetary awards for whistleblowing

The British Columbia Securities Commission has introduced a new Whistleblower Program to incentivize future whistleblowers to come forward by...

CSA releases its first consolidated ‘Year in Review’

A recent Canadian Securities Administrators report tracks the progress provincial and federal regulators have made on their strategic goals. We look...

OSC publishes report on AI in the capital markets

Like elsewhere in the economy, alternative intelligence technologies offer both potential benefits and significant risks to capital markets...

California’s new ‘Climate Accountability Package’

California’s legislature recently passed two bills that impose significant mandatory climate-related reporting requirements for large public...

Amendments to British Columbia’s Securities Act grant BCSC new powers

On July 17, 2023, legislative amendments to British Columbia’s Securities Act, targeted at “modernizing” the statute and improving...