Home / Insights

Insights

Miller Thomson has uniquely Canadian insights on the latest legal and business trends and developments, and how they affect you and your organization.

Filter

Filter Options
Displaying 1071-1080 of 1687

COVID-19 related temporary layoff period extended again for Alberta employees

June 26, 2020 | Teri Treiber, Stephen M. Torscher

Labour and Employment Communiqué

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Alberta’s Employment Standards Code, RSA 2000, c E-9, stated that employees who were temporarily laid off for one or more periods exceeding, in total, 60 days within a 120-day period were deemed to have been […]

More

COVID-19:  Cross country update (June 25, 2020)

June 25, 2020

Labour and Employment Communiqué

Federal The Government of Canada announced the following measures: Funding for Covid-19 Research Today, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Canada’s Minister of Health, announced an investment of more than $109 million over one year for COVID-19 research. This investment will support […]

More

Recognizing and addressing racism in the workplace: Considerations for employers

June 25, 2020 | Sabrina Anis

Labour and Employment Communiqué

The issue of systemic racism (particularly against Black and Indigenous persons) has been at the forefront of public discourse in Canada in recent weeks. As the conversation has taken hold, many employers have started to interrogate their own structures in […]

More

New filing methods in COVID-19 Response and Reforms to Modernize Ontario Act, 2020

June 25, 2020 | Karima Kanani, Meg Berkovitz

Health Communiqué

On May 12, 2020 the Government of Ontario passed COVID-19 Response and Reforms to Modernize Ontario Act, 2020 (the “Act”).  This omnibus legislation makes temporary changes to various Ontario business statues and provides not-for-profit corporations with flexibility in meeting corporate […]

More

Executor compensation – part 1: How much?

June 25, 2020 | Christopher Crisman-Cox

MT Estate Litigation Blog

Generally speaking, an executor of an Estate will be entitled to some amount of compensation for their time and effort. Unfortunately, the specific amount of compensation has the potential to become a contentious issue. The beneficiaries may feel that the […]

More

COVID-19: Cross country update (June 24, 2020)

June 24, 2020

Labour and Employment Communiqué

British Columbia The Government of British Columbia announced the following measures: Entering Phase 3 The Premier of British Columbia, John Horgan, announced today that B.C. is now entering Phase 3 of its four-phase restart plan, which includes the return of […]

More

British Columbia introduces legislation allowing wills to be created and signed electronically

June 24, 2020 | Sandra L. Enticknap, KC, TEP

Wealth Matters

British Columbia introduced legislation on June 22, 2020, to enable courts to accept electronic wills and to permit the remote witnessing of wills. Bill 21 proposes amendments to the Wills, Estates and Succession Act of British Columbia to enable the […]

More

COVID-19: Cross country update (June 23, 2020)

June 23, 2020

Labour and Employment Communiqué

Federal The Government of Canada announced the following measures: Temporary Layoff Period Extended for Federally Regulated Employers Today, the Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Labour, announced changes to extend the time periods for temporary layoffs to allow federally regulated employers […]

More

Landlords and tenants: Navigating leasehold interests, liens and the Construction Act

June 23, 2020 | Riccardo Del Vecchio, Paul Guaragna, Dražen F. Bulat

Breaking Ground: MT Construction Law Ontario Edition

Changes to the Construction Act (formerly the Construction Lien Act) (the “Act”) include new provisions, which: expose a landlord’s interests in premises to liens arising from a tenant’s work where a landlord and tenant agree in a lease or any […]

More

Some good news in an uncertain time: Prescribed rate decreasing to 1%

June 23, 2020 | Brittany Sud

Wealth Matters

Canada has a progressive income tax system, which means that generally the more money a taxpayer earns, the more income tax he or she pays.  As a result, higher income earners attempt to reduce their family’s overall tax burden by […]

More

Displaying 1071-1080 of 1687

Disclaimer

This blog sets out a variety of materials relating to the law to be used for educational and non-commercial purposes only; the author(s) of this blog do not intend the blog to be a source of legal advice. Please retain and seek the advice of a lawyer and use your own good judgement before choosing to act on any information included in the blog. If you choose to rely on the materials, you do so entirely at your own risk.