On April 16, 2021, the Government of Ontario announced the extension of the provincial declaration of emergency and stay-at-home order first institute…
First merits decision dismissing privacy class action in Canada
In an ever growing landscape of data theft and privacy breaches, the Superior Court of Québec recently dismissed a privacy class action on the merits …
Optimizing the relationship between technology and the construction and infrastructure industry
On March 25, 2021, Osler lawyers Simon Hodgett and Andrew Wong, along with Rosemarie Lipman, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Digi…
CCDC 31 (2020): A new consultant contract
The Canadian Construction Documents Committee has published a new standard form document – the CCDC 31 (2020) (CCDC 31). This new document gover…
Ontario Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce: Road to implementation?
Ontario’s Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce (the Taskforce) received a show of confidence from the Ontario government thr…
Three week countdown for Canadian digital asset trading platforms to start getting registered under securities laws
On March 29, 2021, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) jointly publishe…
Market Manipulation: Alberta Securities Commission clamps down on pump and dump scheme
The ASC concluded the control person of Kilimanjaro Capital Ltd. (“Kilimanjaro”), Ashmit Patel, engaged in, among other things, market man…
Developments across the pond: Will the UK courts’ expansion of parent company liability be adopted in Canada?
Since the English case of Saloman v. Saloman & Co in 1896, the common law has generally protected a parent company from sharing in the liab…
Ontario Court of Appeal clarifies approach to assessing public correction in secondary market misrepresentation claims
The secondary market liability provisions prescribed by the various provincial securities acts set out a framework for recovery of market losses attri…
Long term recovery from COVID-19: A primer on LEEFF and its current impact on economic recovery
As part of the multi-faceted response implemented by the federal government to deal with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic…
