On September 13, 2021, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) opened its application portal for prospective operators and gaming-related suppliers interested in participating in Ontario’s coming igaming market....more
On August 12, 2021, the federal government announced that Bill C‑218, the Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act (Bill), will come into force on August 27 of this year, officially legalizing single-event sports betting in...more
On June 22, 2021, the Senate passed Bill C-218, the Safe and Regulated Sports Betting Act, which will amend the Criminal Code to allow provincial governments to determine when and how to conduct and manage single-event sports...more
On May 19, 2021, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) made available for comment a discussion paper on the expected eligibility requirements for iGaming operators in Ontario’s new iGaming market. The discussion...more
On April 22, 2021, an amended Bill C-218, which seeks to allow single-event sports betting in Canada, passed its third reading in the House of Commons.
As discussed in our February 2021 Blakes Bulletin: Single-Event...more
A clearer image is emerging of the future of internet gaming (iGaming) in Ontario.
On March 3, 2021, the province released a discussion paper outlining its “preliminary thinking” on how Ontario’s new iGaming market could...more
Significant changes are on the horizon for Canada and Ontario’s gaming industry. Not only did the federal government recently introduce Bill C-13 to decriminalize single-event sports betting in Canada, but the Ontario...more
On November 26, 2020, the federal government introduced Bill C-13, which seeks to decriminalize single-event sports betting, while maintaining the pari-mutuel system of betting for horse racing.
As it stands today,...more
Despite a lack of legislative change over the past eight years, the use of “clawback” provisions—arrangements under which an employee forfeits previously awarded compensation—have become increasingly common in...more
Each year in January, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) publishes a report on the compensation of the 100 highest-paid chief executive officers (CEOs) of companies on Canada’s S&P/TSX Composite Index, and...more
A Canadian legal requirement to present an advisory “Say-on-Pay” shareholder vote—a shareholder vote approving a company’s approach to executive compensation—is potentially on the horizon for certain Canadian public...more
On April 11, 2019, the Government of Ontario released its 2019 budget (2019 Budget), which includes several proposals that will impact the gaming landscape in Ontario once implemented. The gaming-related highlights from the...more
Significant amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) proposed in the federal government’s omnibus budget implementation bill (Bill) would codify into statute some of the principles relating to directors’...more
On November 15, 2018, the Ontario government introduced Bill 57, Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act, 2018 (Bill 57) in the Ontario legislature. Bill 57 proposes to amend a significant number of Ontario’s...more
On November 9, 2018, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled that the proposed cooperative capital markets regulatory system (Cooperative System) is constitutional. The unanimous decision opens the door to a proposed...more
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have received formal submissions (Submissions) on Consultation Paper 52-404 – Approach to Director and Audit Committee Member Independence (Consultation Paper) from 27...more
The Supreme Court of Canada’s recent hearing on the constitutionality of the proposed cooperative capital markets regulatory system (Cooperative System) has thrown a wrench into the implementation of the Cooperative...more
Bill 101, Enhancing Shareholders Rights Act, 2017 (Bill 101), a private member’s bill that has passed second reading in the Ontario Legislative Assembly, proposes changes to the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (OBCA),...more
On October 19, 2017, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) announced that it has adopted, and the Ontario Securities Commission has approved, the following amendments to the TSX Company Manual: (i) the introduction of website...more
On May 10, 2017, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled that the proposed cooperative capital markets regulatory system (Cooperative System) is in significant respects unconstitutional, although it ruled that the federal...more
On April 6, 2017, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) published for comment a revised version of proposed amendments (Revised Amendments) to Part IV and Part VI of the TSX Company Manual (Manual) and certain other ancillary...more
With the recent release of proposed regulations (Regulations), the Government of Canada has put some meat on the bones of the proposed changes to the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) that were contained in Bill C-25...more
The Government of Canada recently introduced Bill C-25 (Bill), titled “An Act to amend the Canada Business Corporations Act, the Canada Cooperatives Act, the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act and the Competition Act”....more
As it officially opened its Office of the Whistleblower, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) also unveiled the final version of OSC Policy 15-601 – Whistleblower Program (Policy), which provides the framework for the...more
Securities regulators in Ontario and Quebec recently announced the launches of separate whistleblower programs in the two jurisdictions. While the Ontario Securities Commission’s (OSC) whistleblower program (OSC Program)...more