martindale.com
Legal Library
|
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Ottawa, ON Document Search Results (10) Sort by:  | Federal Budget 2012 Changes
Pamela L. Cross, Eva M. Krasa, Sonia T. Mak; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 13, 2012, previously published on April 2012 The March 29, 2012 federal budget (“Budget 2012”) included several proposed changes in the pension and benefits area. On April 2, 2012 the Canada Revenue Agency issued a number of Qs&As which provide some additional detail on certain of the changes.
| | Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Provides Guidance on what Health Facilities May Charge for Making Copies of Personal Health Information Records
Bonnie Freedman, Patrick J. Hawkins, Barbara A. McIsaac, Heather K. Pessione, Michele M. Warner; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 28, 2012, previously published on February 2012 Under section 54(10) of the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), a health sector provider may charge a fee for responding to a person’s access request if it first gives the person an estimate. Section 54(11) provides that the amount of the fee shall not exceed the prescribed...
| | Toronto Financial Services Alliance Calls For Changes to Canadian Law to Facilitate Islamic Finance
P. Jeffrey S. Graham, Tyler W. Hodgson, Gar Knutson, Sonia Molodecky, David Mousavi, Habeeb Syed, Fadi Yachoua; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 7, 2012, previously published on February 2012 The Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA) a public private partnership of federal, provincial and municipal governments and leading financial institutions and entities, has made submissions to the federal and provincial governments as part of the annual pre-budget consultation process. In each...
| | Ontario Court Of Appeal Recognizes the Tort of Invasion of Privacy
Barbara A. McIsaac; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 20, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In the much anticipated decision of Jones v. Tsige, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled on January 18, 2012 that there in a common law tort for invasion of privacy recognized in Ontario and awarded damages of $10,000 even though the plaintiff had not suffered any monetary loss. The tort that the...
| | Federal Privacy Commissioner Issues Guidance to Online Advertisers
Eva Chan, Barbara A. McIsaac, Alexandra Nicol; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 15, 2011, previously published on December 2011 The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently released new online advertising Guidelines to help organizations ensure that their online behavioural advertising practices are fair, transparent and in compliance with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents...
| | PIPEDA Amendments Re-Introduced
Barbara A. McIsaac; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 12, 2011, previously published on October 2011 On September 29, 2011, the government reintroduced amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act which were first tabled in the last Parliament but ended up dying on the Order Paper when Parliament was prorogued. It is to be expected that the amendments will face...
| | Amendments to the Copyright Act Expected To Pass With the Re-Introduction of the Copyright Modernization Act as Bill C-11
Hafeez Rupani; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 10, 2011, previously published on October 2011 After Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act, died on the order table following the last election, the Government of Canada re-introduced on September 29, 2011 the Copyright Modernization Act as Bill C-11 with the exact same text as previously proposed under Bill C-32. However, with a firm...
| | Anti-Spam Regulations Finally Published - Not A Lot of Enlightenment
Bradley J. Freedman, Barbara McIsaac; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article July 20, 2011, previously published on July 2011 Both the CRTC and the Department of Industry have now published their respective proposed regulations intended to flesh out the requirements of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) which is scheduled to come into force January 1, 2012. The CRTC Regulations and the Industry Regulations are...
| | New Sponsored Top-Level Domain Name: Managing the .xxx Transition
Tracey L. Mosley; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article July 6, 2011, previously published on June 2011 According to the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) approved plan to increase the number of generic top-level domains (gTLD) a new type of Sponsored Top-Level Domain Name (sTLD) is expected to come into effect by the end of 2011.
| | The Supreme Court of Canada Allows Masterpiece’s Appeal and Expunges Alavida’s Registration
Kathleen Lemieux, Hafeez Rupani; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 6, 2011, previously published on May 2011 In a strongly-worded and highly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) unanimously allowed Masterpiece Inc.’s appeal in Masterpiece Inc. v. Alavida Lifestyles Inc. and ordered the expungement of Alavida Lifestyle Inc.’s registration for the trade-mark MASTERPIECE LIVING...
|
|