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Featured Osler Updates November 4, 2025

Federal budget briefing 2025

Budget 2025 includes modest tax proposals for businesses and individuals, plus long-awaited amendments to the transfer pricing regime.

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Federal budget briefing 2025
Featured Osler Updates December 8, 2025

Québec’s Bill 10: new rules for subscriptions and ticket resale practices – what businesses need to know

The proposals would create a new legal framework for businesses in these sectors, amplifying risk in class action matters and regulatory scrutiny.

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Featured Osler Updates November 27, 2025

German and U.K. courts diverge on whether AI models infringe copyright  

When it comes to AI and copyright, recent rulings show there is no global consensus on whether training models infringe.

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Osler Update July 21, 2023

Government of Québec adopts the Regulation respecting the language of the civil administration

The regulation clarifies provisions of the Charter of the French Language and creates new exceptions to the general principle of French as the first...

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Osler Update July 20, 2023

News and insights from Osler’s market-leading Financial Services Group – July 2023

News and information from Osler’s market-leading FS practice group

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News and insights from Osler’s market-leading Financial Services Group – July 2023
Osler Update July 20, 2023

What you need to know about the assumption of commercial mortgage loans

Ever since the Bank of Canada’s Overnight Interest Rate and Lenders’ prime interest rates (collectively, the Interest Rates) started to increase...

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What you need to know about the assumption of commercial mortgage loans
Osler Update July 20, 2023

Bill C-13: Parliament enacts the Use of French in Federally Regulated Private Businesses Act

Last month, Bill C-13, which makes several changes to strengthen, protect and promote the French language, received royal assent. We discuss how it...

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Osler Update July 14, 2023

Canada rejects OECD’s one-year extension of digital services tax moratorium

Canada refuses to delay the introduction of its digital services tax to 2025 despite one-year extension to DST moratorium announced in the new OECD...

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Osler Update July 7, 2023

CARR’s recent recommendations for ‘tough-legacy securities’ ahead of CDOR cessation

A white paper published by the CARR working group recommends market participants take measures to review the terms of their securities that mature...

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CARR’s recent recommendations for ‘tough-legacy securities’ ahead of CDOR cessation
Osler Update July 6, 2023

Canada’s blockchain breakthrough: understanding the landmark report from the House of Commons

On June 14, 2023, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology published its landmark report on blockchain technology. We...

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Osler Update June 28, 2023

LIFE lessons: initial experience with the listed issuer financing exemption

Alan Hutchison, Minji Park and Peter Horemans review CSA Staff Notice 45-330 and provides commentary on their experience with financings under the...

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Osler Update June 27, 2023

Bill C-47 introduces significant changes to the Canadian mandatory disclosure rules

On June 22, 2023, Bill C-47, an Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023, received Royal Assent and...

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Bill C-47 introduces significant changes to the Canadian mandatory disclosure rules
Osler Update June 27, 2023

Q2 2023 economic update with Stephen Poloz (webinar)

Osler Special Advisor and former Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz and Osler National Co-Chair Shahir Guindi explored these and other...

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