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- If you are a director of a private company incorporated under the Ontario Business Corporations Act (OBCA), here are a few things you should know about some of directors’ roles, duties and liabilities in Ontario....
- If you are not a first-time home buyer and looking to move to a new home, chances are you are looking to both sell and purchase real property around the same time. Accordingly, we see many clients make the decision to have the closings of their purchase and sale transactions occur on the same day. ...
- Most people these days have an e-mail account, and many also have one or more social media accounts, or make their living online through e-commerce websites, blogs or vlogs....
- Bill 245, the “Accelerating Access to Justice Act, 2001”, proposes several major changes to the Land Tribunals in Ontario. Bill 245 is in the third reading and will likely pass soon. ...
- Most people know what it means to be defamed. The common meaning of defamation is a negative statement made about a person that hurts their reputation. Just as with most terms, the legal definition of defamation is more detailed and complex than its regular meaning....
We are hearing that during this pandemic more than one buyer has put an offer in on a house, conditional on financing and/or home inspection, and when it came time to waive it they failed to do so. This is even though there was no legitimate reason not to waive the clause(s)....
- More than one of us may feel like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air at the moment - like our life got flipped-turned upside down - since the declaration by the WHO on March 11, 2020 that COVID-19 was a pandemic. Since then, all levels of governments, and all governing bodies have been attempting to make sense of, and find a way to continue, with aspects of life that cannot be put on hold....
- Last week in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford ordered the closure of a number of businesses and the shut down of industrial construction sites that were previously considered “Essential” under Ontario Regulation 82/20: Closure of Places of Non-Essential Business (“O.Reg 82/20”). ...
On March 25, 2020, the Canadian government established the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to help protect Canadian workers whose incomes may have been disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
- A number of GTHA municipalities have now passed social or physical distancing by-laws, with more on the way. Some have been passed by municipal heads of council (mayors) acting unilaterally – without a council vote, in reliance on section 4 of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act (“EMCPA”)....
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