May 16, 2025
A Vancouver hotel bookkeeper who masterminded a goods and services tax evasion scheme worth almost $1 million has received a conditional sentence of two years less a day and two years’ probation, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has announced.
May 16, 2025
Ontario’s 2025 budget includes a $5 billion “Protecting Ontario Account” and a suite of tax deferral measures aimed at supporting businesses affected by recent U.S. tariffs.
May 14, 2025
Newly minted federal Cabinet ministers spoke for the first time about their portfolios with Hill media on May 14, as Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed that the Liberals’ promised “middle-class” tax cut will be in place by July 1, 2025, and Finance and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne disclosed that the minority Liberal government has no plans for a federal budget this year — but intends to deliver an economic statement on an unspecified date in fall 2025.
May 13, 2025
Lawyers who were key Cabinet members in Justin Trudeau's erstwhile minority Liberal government have assumed dominant roles in Prime Minister Mark Carney's new 29-member Liberal Cabinet.
May 09, 2025
The Law Society of Ontario has announced that three candidates — Murray Klippenstein, Stephen Rotstein and incumbent Peter Wardle — have been nominated for the role of treasurer, with the election set for June 18.
May 09, 2025
An Ontario Superior Court panel has upheld a $1-million penalty for a now defunct Markham, Ont., real estate firm and its CEO who defrauded investors in a Richmond Hill, Ont., housing development of an estimated $10 million.
May 08, 2025
The Ontario Superior Court has voided a pre-bankruptcy property transfer between related parties as a “transfer at undervalue,” rejecting the recipient’s claim to a constructive trust over the transferor’s interest in the property.
May 07, 2025
Courts have authority under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) to release corporate directors from personal liability for unpaid excise taxes, the Alberta Court of King’s Bench has held.
May 07, 2025
The Competition Bureau announced on May 7 that it has received court orders to obtain information that would advance its investigation into BWX Technologies’ proposed acquisition of Kinectrics. The companies operate in nuclear sectors, including in nuclear medicine.
May 07, 2025
Emily O’Donohue has joined Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) as counsel in its corporate and capital markets group in Toronto.