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Five Questions, Five Answers: Electric Mobility Canada on Its Promises for a Cleaner Economy
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The Great Green North: A Discussion on Canada’s Environmental Regulations
Blakes Continuity Podcast: Cutting Through the Weeds: A Look at Environmental Issues Impacting Businesses
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On August 12, 2024, the Department of Finance released its Consultation on Proposals to Strengthen Canada’s Financial Sector, the third phase of the federal government’s ongoing review of Canada’s financial institutions laws....more
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) published a consultation document on July 4, 2024, seeking input from stakeholders on a proposed roadmap for addressing plastic waste and pollution from the textile and apparel...more
As part of its implementation of the modernized Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA), on August 17, 2024, Health Canada published a Canada Gazette notice announcing the availability of its Science Approach...more
On July 26, 2024, the Ontario Ministry of Finance launched a consultation on proposed amendments to the Insurance Act that would create a regulatory framework for life and health managing general agents (L&H MGAs) and those...more
The July 13, 2024, Canada Gazette will include a notice announcing the availability of the Updated Draft State of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Report (Updated Draft Report) and Revised Risk Management Scope for...more
The Competition Bureau’s new guidance on and the amendments to the abuse of dominance provisions in the Competition Act significantly expand the scope of these provisions. These developments, coupled with private access to...more
On October 5, 2023, the Department of Finance (Canada) launched a public consultation as part of its periodic review of the key statutes governing federally-regulated financial institutions: the Bank Act, the Insurance...more
The Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development has announced that it is seeking prompt comments and feedback on two Occupational Health and Safety proposals, including one in relation to heat...more
On August 10, 2023, Canada released draft Clean Electricity Regulations (Regulations), which are intended to form an essential part of Canada’s approach to achieving economy-wide net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by...more
The Ontario Securities Commission and the Autorité des marchés financiers (the “Regulators”) recently received an application (the “Application”) from CanDeal Benchmark Administration Services Inc. (“CBAS”) to have Term CORRA...more
On May 20, 2023, Canada published a Canada Gazette notice announcing the availability of its Draft State of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Report (Draft Report). Canada proposes to conclude that the class of PFAS...more
On December 1, 2022, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) published for comment certain proposed amendments (the Proposed Amendments) to Section 606 – Prospectus Offerings of the TSX Company Manual (the Manual). The Proposed...more
UPDATE: The consultation period has been extended until April 26, 2023. On December 17, 2022, the proposed amendments to both regulations were published for consultation: Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Made Under...more
When Bill C-19, Budget Implementation Act, 2022, No. 1 received Royal Assent in June 2022, it amended Canada’s Competition Act (Act) by including a new provision, s. 45(1.1), which comes into force on June 23, 2023. Section...more
Le 1er décembre 2022, la Bourse de Toronto (la « TSX ») a publié une sollicitation de commentaires concernant un projet de modifications à apporter à l’article 606, Placements par voie de prospectus, du Guide à l’intention...more
On December 1, 2022, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) released its request for comments regarding proposed amendments to Section 606 – Prospectus Offerings of the TSX Company Manual (Proposed Amendments). The Proposed...more
Le 17 novembre 2022, le ministre de l’Innovation, des Sciences et de l’Industrie (le « ministre ») a annoncé le lancement de la révision de la Loi sur la concurrence (la « Loi »). Il s’agit de la prochaine étape parmi les...more
On November 17, 2022, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (Minister) announced the commencement of a review of the Competition Act (Act). The review is the next step in the Minister’s efforts to modernize the...more
CONTEXTE - Comme nous l’avons mentionné dans notre Bulletin Blakes d’octobre 2021 intitulé Les ACVM lancent une consultation sur les obligations d’information liée au changement climatique, le 18 octobre 2021, les...more
BACKGROUND - As we reported in our October 2021 Blakes Bulletin: CSA Seeks Comments on Climate-Related Disclosure Rules, on October 18, 2021, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the CSA) issued a notice and request for...more
On October 1, 2022, Canada published two proposed Regulations under the Canada Labour Code (CLC) and requested comments by October 31, 2022, via a new embedded commenting feature....more
On October 6, 2022, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) released its revised draft Guidelines to give effect to the July 1, 2022 amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations. Submissions are due by December...more
British Columbia’s Ministry of Finance is conducting a consultation on the adoption of its proposed restricted insurance agent licensing regime for incidental sellers of insurance. The proposal is similar to what is already...more
Earlier this year, pursuant to Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canada Labour Code (Act) and Bill C-19, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 7, 2022 and other...more
As previously announced, the amended Patented Medicines Regulations will be coming into force on July 1, 2022 in substantially revised form. As we previously reported, the new basket of countries for Patented Medicine Prices...more