Regulatory Regulatory

Securities enforcement: Regulators’ enforcement capabilities continue to grow

With the new tools recently given to securities regulators in Ontario and Québec to help combat capital market abuses, regulators are hoping for...

Food’s up, are you ready? New Ontario menu labelling laws coming into force on January 1, 2017

The Healthy Menu Choices Act will require restaurant chains and other food service providers operating under the same name in Ontario to provide...

Alberta’s energy regulator imposes further restrictions on embattled energy industry in response to Redwater

One month after the May 19, 2016 Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench’s decision in Redwater Energy Corporation (Re), 2016 ABQB 278 (“Redwater”),...

Implications of the Redwater decision – Where does the buck stop?

The Court held that the provisions of the BIA permitting a Trustee to renounce assets it deemed uneconomic was paramount to any obligations of the...