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Diversity Disclosure Practices: How are TSX-listed companies stacking up?

Institutional shareholders, regulators and legislators are increasingly prioritizing gender diversity in corporate leadership roles in Canada and...

Securities Commission staff raise the bar for conflict transactions

Staff of the securities regulatory authorities in each of Ontario, Québec, Alberta, Manitoba and New Brunswick have indicated that they intend to...

VC and PE firm codes of conduct

Recent events at certain venture capital (VC) firms in Silicon Valley have brought into focus the importance of VC and private equity firms adopting...

Supreme Court clarifies test for personal liability of directors for oppressive conduct

In its decision released today in Wilson v Alharayeri, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the test as to when liability may be assigned to...

The Eco Oro decision – OSC invokes broad jurisdiction in effectively neutralizing a private placement

The Ontario Securities Commission recently released its reasons for overturning a decision by the Toronto Stock Exchange conditionally approving a...

Goodbye Ontario solvency funding (in part)!

On May 19, 2017, Ontario announced various changes that are intended to promote the health and sustainability of defined benefit pension plans...

Corporate governance and data issues

The immediate steps you take after a data breach can set the tone for the response and influence how smoothly your organization can move forward from...

Climate Change – Why boards need to be proactive

We highlight below a few of the reasons why climate change needs to be a recurring topic on the board agenda.

The evolution of governance — The Canadian Institute’s Pension & Benefits Legal Review

Plan administrators, as fiduciaries, need to be cognizant of the increased legislative and regulatory focus on pension governance over the past 10 to...

Québec Court of Appeal finds aspects of the proposed co-operative capital markets model unconstitutional

The Québec Court of Appeal has concluded that while the governance framework for the co-operative capital markets regulatory regime is...