Business
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December 06, 2024
No Charter breach when police warrantlessly searched text messages in ‘exigent circumstances’: SCC
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed 6-3 an Ontario man’s appeal of his drug trafficking convictions, holding that his Charter rights were not breached because “exigent circumstances” justified police, without a warrant, using a cellphone they seized from a drug dealer to impersonate that dealer and continue his texting with the accused to arrange what police suspected to be a purchase of fentanyl-laced heroin.
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December 06, 2024
Sales of patented medicines in Canada soared to almost $20B in 2023, says review board
Buoyed by high prices, sales of patented medicines in Canada last year totalled almost $20 billion — representing 47.3 per cent of the country’s entire medicines market, according to the 2023 annual report of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB).
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December 06, 2024
Unifor accuses Walmart of anti-union tactics in complaint filed with Industrial Relations Board
Canada’s largest private sector union is alleging that retail giant Walmart Canada has imposed a wage freeze on some workers in locations where Unifor is attempting to negotiate a first contract.
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December 06, 2024
Ontario red tape bill takes aim at housing development, landlord and tenant board
Ontario has brought in new legislation aimed at cutting red tape and helping to spur economic growth, with many of the provisions aimed at accelerating housing development and fixing the backlog at the provincial landlord and tenant board.
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December 06, 2024
Is Canada’s GST/HST rebate a holiday gift or a burden for business owners? | David Rotfleisch
The Canadian federal government has passed new legislation to provide a two-month tax break, effectively putting more cash in consumers’ pockets for a range of goods. The tax break will last from Dec. 14, 2024, to Feb. 15, 2025, for eligible purchases.
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December 06, 2024
Force majeure rejected, buyer pays price for lack of financing
The doctrines of force majeure and/or frustration are occasionally raised by buyers seeking to avoid liability under an otherwise binding agreement to complete the purchase of real estate. In such cases, the focus is on external events that occurred after the signing of the agreement and before the transaction was scheduled to be completed. However, if the underlying reason for a buyer’s predicament is their failure to have sufficient financing in place, they will have difficult finding a way out based upon other developments.
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December 06, 2024
Transferred intent comes under consideration in pit bull assault decision
The Manitoba Court of Appeal upheld convictions for a woman found guilty of assaulting two people with a weapon. The weapon was her pet bulldog (R. v. Park, 2024 MBCA 93).
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December 06, 2024
Ottawa expands banned firearms list; pledges measures against gun use in intimate-partner violence
The minority Liberal government has put in place “revised classification” regulatory changes to newly prohibit 104 categories of assault-style firearms while also pledging to roll out new restrictions on large-capacity magazines in March 2025 and to introduce “no later” than January 2025 measures to help combat the high rates of gun use in gender-based and intimate-partner violence.
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December 05, 2024
CSA provides guidance and seeks feedback on AI oversight and regulation in capital markets
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has published a staff notice and consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in capital markets and is seeking stakeholder feedback on the approaches to oversight and regulation in light of AI advancements.
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December 05, 2024
Federal privacy commissioner expresses lingering concerns over FINTRAC in report
Canada’s federal privacy commissioner is expressing ongoing concerns about how well the country’s anti-money laundering watchdog is protecting the personal information it gathers as part of its investigations — especially in the wake of two recent information security breaches.