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...

When it comes to what you can patent, patent offices don’t always know best

In its decision in Cleveland Clinic, the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated an issued patent directed to a medical diagnostic method,...

Canadian prosecutors secure two more convictions in foreign corruption case

Two convictions recently handed down by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice account for two of only three convictions secured by prosecutors in...

BC Court of Appeal sets aside certification of common issues in environmental class action

In Kirk v Executive Flight Centre Fuel Services Ltd., the B.C. Supreme Court certified a class action by local residents who were impacted by a truck...