The province of Alberta has joined the Canadian Federal Government and a number of the other Canadian provinces, proposing to update its privacy laws. Currently, Alberta’s legal privacy framework includes the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) and the Freedom of
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Ontario Updates Director Residency Requirements
By Elliot Rand
As of July 5, 2021, corporations incorporated under Ontario’s Business Corporations Act will no longer be required to have at least 25% of directors be resident Canadians.
Effective July 5, 2021, subsection 118(3) of Ontario’s Business Corporations Act (“OBCA”) will…
Brace Yourself – Quebec’s Bill 96 Proposes Substantial Changes to French Language Laws
By Wendy Hulton
What happened?
The Quebec Government made waves when they tabled Bill 96 – An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec, on May 13, 2021. The bill amends the province’s Charter of the French Language by instituting…
A Reminder to Purchasers of the True Cost of Not Closing – It’s not “Just the Deposit”
By Sahar Cadili
In Prowse v. Noroozi 2021 ONSC 3099 (CanLII), Justice McCarthy of the Superior Court of Justice recently granted summary judgment for $806,380.59 against a purchaser of a luxury home in King City (the “Property”) in an aborted real estate transaction.…
Discoverability and Fraudulent Misrepresentation
The date a limitation period begins depends on when the claim was discovered. The recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in Kaynes v. BP, PLC clarifies the law of discoverability under the Limitations Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c.…
Good Faith and Fair Dealing in Canadian Employment Law
By Eric Kay
Starting in 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) has rendered a series of decisions that have progressed from the imposition of a duty of good faith and fair dealing on the employer, at the time of an employee’s dismissal,…
Release of the Federal Budget, 2021
On Monday, April 19, 2021, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, released the first official budget in the past two years, titled, Federal Budget 2021: A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth, and Resilience (the “Budget”). The Budget proposed…
Financial Product Differentiation Using Patents – A Canadian Example (Part 2)
As I mentioned in my previous post, quant and TOBAM funder Yves Choueifaty’s journey towards securing a Canadian patent for his process of constructing “anti-benchmark” securities portfolios has not been easy.
But first, a quick detour. Many companies have…
Financial Product Differentiation Using Patents – A Canadian Example (Part 1)
Lightbulbs, bike gears, corkscrews, drilling rigs, TV towers, computer chips, medicine, and cleaning supplies. That’s the kind of stuff patents are for, right? Patents are only applied-for by those white-coated toilers frowning at lab benches, by those strange tinkerers in…
Critical Ontario Appeal Decision on Preservation of Property
Preservation of property during litigation is dealt with under rule 45 of the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure. The traditional test under rule 45 was designed for situations where the thing being preserved was the subject of the litigation, such…