In-House Counsel
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November 22, 2024
Securities regulators propose amendments to increase system fees over 5 years
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have published proposed amendments to Multilateral Instrument 13-102 System Fees for comment, with the intention to “better align system fee revenues with projected national systems operating costs.”
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November 22, 2024
Ontario's top court issues key ruling on arbitrators' duty of disclosure, restores $10M award
Ontario’s top court has ruled that an arbitrator who didn’t disclose that he was engaged by counsel for one of the parties to an ongoing arbitration to serve as an arbitrator in another unrelated matter did not breach the legal duty of disclosure.
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November 22, 2024
Manitoba re-establishes workplace safety advisory board
Manitoba’s government has resurrected the province’s advisory body on workplace safety — and has tapped an award-winning employment lawyer as its chair.
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November 22, 2024
Privacy reform update: Focus on Bill C-27
Initiatives to reform privacy laws in Canada have progressed significantly. However, they remain, at the national level at least, an unfulfilled promise. The most significant (and potentially impactful) reform now in place is found within Quebec’s revised private sector law, Law 25, which, as of this past September, is fully in force. On the other hand, the major overhaul of the current federal private sector law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), is stalled in Committee and is not likely to be in force, even if passed, before the next election.
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November 22, 2024
More audit powers to CRA? Combatting ITC fraud without turning taxpayers into villains
The 2024 Federal Budget introduces important tax proposals that amend the Income Tax Act and strengthen the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) audit and compliance powers. The additional powers could be vital for enhancing tax collection and curbing GST/HST fraud, including Carousel fraud, which exploits cross-border trade to falsely claim Input Tax Credits (ITC), and Accommodation Invoice fraud, involving bogus invoices for fictitious transactions.
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November 21, 2024
Tribunal to continue anti-dumping orders on foreign steel sheets, pea protein
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has found injury to the economy from the expiry of an order on corrosion-resistant steel sheets from China, Taiwan, India and Korea and from certain pea protein from China.
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November 21, 2024
Federal government announces 2-month GST ‘holiday’ and new rebate for workers
The federal government has announced new measures to give Canadians “more money in their pocket” through new GST/HST exemptions applicable across the country and a new rebate for working Canadians.
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November 21, 2024
Advocates urge legal workplaces to provide better benefits, mentorship to address mental health
Mental health advocates are urging legal workplaces to prioritize employee well-being by offering better benefits, tracking contributions to mental health support and implementing structured mentorship programs to combat the profession’s growing mental health crisis.
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November 21, 2024
OSFI quarterly release confirms change to mortgage stress test, offers risk-management updates
Canada’s federal banking regulator has issued a series of regulatory notes and guidelines on risk management, mortgage standards and reduced regulations as part of its quarterly release pilot.
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November 21, 2024
SCC judges will meet with local bar/bench, law students in Victoria next year
Canada’s top judges will meet, and take questions from, the bar, bench, public and law students in Victoria next February as part of their planned cross-country visits in 2025 to mark the Supreme Court of Canada’s 150th anniversary.