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This post provides an introduction to the process by which new businesses become incorporated in Ontario, including an overview of the applicable legislation, the restrictions on and procedures for incorporation, the requirements for incorporators, and the corporate constitution.

Modern urban construction has become an increasingly complex affair.

This digest highlights a British Columbia Court of Appeal decision which upheld a lower court’s finding that a hotel manager did not owe a fiduciary to purchasers of the assets of the hotel corporation.

The victims’ fear coupled with the accused’s awareness that breaking and entering could trigger such fear formed the basis for Ontario’s Court of Appeal to find the “implied threat of violence” necessary to uphold the lifetime weapons prohibition imposed in the accused’s sentence.

Cargojet Airways Ltd. v. Aveiro Constructors Ltd. (2016), 2016 CarswellOnt 7846, 2016 ONSC 2356 (Ont. S.C.J.) at para. 41 Braid J.

Claims against veterinarian, veterinary clinic and veterinary medical association, were struck out on basis that facts pleaded did not support the claims.

Court of Appeal held entitlement to bonus payments did not depend on whether employee was notionally or actively employed after employment was terminated but on compensation and benefits to which he would have been entitled but for wrongful termination

Bruyere Continuing Care and CUPE, Local 4540 (Burnett), Re (2016), 2016 CarswellOnt 633 Ontario Arbitration

In 1993, the Government of Canada enacted the "Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations", SOR/93-133 (the "PMNOC Regulations").

This digest highlights a British Columbia Supreme Court decision where the Court found that a corporation’s deteriorating financial circumstances can impose a heightened duty of disclosure, and held that a director breached his fiduciary duty to the corporation by failing to disclose the expiry of a management services agreement.

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Alberta court holds accused failed to establish privacy interest in text messages sent from cell phones belonging to third party