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B.C. Securities Commission program offers monetary awards for whistleblowing

The British Columbia Securities Commission has introduced a new Whistleblower Program to incentivize future whistleblowers to come forward by...

B.C. government enforces ‘polluter pays’ principle with Environmental Management Act

Who is considered an owner and what types of facilities are subject to amendments under British Columbia’s Environmental Management Act and...

Widening the lanes? Supreme Court of Canada weighs in on the territorial reach of Québec’s securities regulatory tribunal

On November 17, the Supreme Court of Canada directly addressed for the first time the question of whether provincial administrative tribunals have...

CSA releases its first consolidated ‘Year in Review’

A recent Canadian Securities Administrators report tracks the progress provincial and federal regulators have made on their strategic goals. We look...

OSC publishes report on AI in the capital markets

Like elsewhere in the economy, alternative intelligence technologies offer both potential benefits and significant risks to capital markets...

UN Special Rapporteur raises concerns about Canada’s current approach to human rights due diligence for Canadian companies: What can businesses expect moving forward?

Canada’s record of white-collar crime enforcement remains the subject of criticism domestically and internationally.

World Bank debarment of engineering consulting firm underscores importance of compliance in public procurement

The recent World Bank debarment of an engineering consulting firm for misrepresentations in bid documents underscores the need for compliance...

California’s new ‘Climate Accountability Package’

California’s legislature recently passed two bills that impose significant mandatory climate-related reporting requirements for large public...

Canada’s enforcement of foreign bribery is ‘exceedingly low’, find its OECD peers in Phase 4 monitoring report

The OECD’s Stage 4 monitoring report published last week regarding Canada’s anti-corruption enforcement finds that Canada has not done...

Amendments to British Columbia’s Securities Act grant BCSC new powers

On July 17, 2023, legislative amendments to British Columbia’s Securities Act, targeted at “modernizing” the statute and improving...