What factors tend to draw the attention of the Canada Revenue Agency when it comes to an audit? And when selected for an audit, how can taxpayers best manage the process to ensure compliance? Adrienne
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BC minimum wage set to increase again
Making good on its campaign promises, British Columbia’s new NDP Government has announced a further increase to the minimum wage. According to the Provincial Government, the increase is intended “to better reflect the province’s overall
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Federal Budget 2017: how to plan for changes to parental employment insurance benefits
On March 22, 2017, the federal government tabled the 2017-2018 federal budget. The budget not only included an increase in employment insurance premiums (increasing by $0.05 to $1.68 per every $100 of insurable earnings), but
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Canada’s first look at proxy access shareholder proposals
Shareholders of the Toronto-Dominion Bank (“TD Bank”) and the Royal Bank of Canada (“RBC”) voted in the last few weeks on shareholder proposals made to confer additional proxy access rights to shareholders in the nomination
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Canada’s Global Skills Strategy: what’s new for high-growth companies wishing to attract global talent in 2017?
Canadian employers often struggle to bring in global talent and the highly skilled experts they need in order to grow, boost hiring plans and facilitate the transfer of knowledge in Canada. For those reasons, in
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Franchise assignments and restrictive covenants in Ontario
The Ontario courts are continuing to recognize the purpose and policy goals of the Arthur Wishart Act. This is to avoid the perceived inequities of powers within the contractual relationship and to narrowly construe
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British Columbia adopts express protection for transgender rights
On the one-year anniversary of the trans-rights focus of the 2015 Vancouver Pride Parade, and on the eve of Vancouver’s 2016 Pride celebration, the British Columbia legislature has made it explicitly clear that transgender persons
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