Peut-on faire annuler un testament?
Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé s’il est possible de faire annuler un testament suite au décès du testateur? Ce n’est pas dans tous les cas que le défunt laisse un testament au moment de son décès. Lorsqu’aucun testament ne peut être […]
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Pension plan regulatory relief and COVID-19 relief measures: An update
The author would like to acknowledge the contributions of Madison Derraugh, Student-at-law, in the writing of this update. In this summary, we provide an update to the end of October 2020 on COVID-19 relief measures in respect of registered pension […]
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Pension plan administration during COVID-19
Many of you are undoubtedly dealing with a wide range of issues related to your workplace. Among the issues that may impact your employees and your obligations as an employer are those relating to the administration of a registered pension […]
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Ontario Pensions: What’s New?
Welcome to the first post of 2020! In this post, we highlight some of the more significant legislative and regulatory developments in Ontario pensions in January 2020 and late 2019. Pension Benefits Act (Ontario) Bill 132 As we reported in […]
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Pension plan regulatory relief and COVID-19
In our most recent post, we highlighted some of the regulatory relief available to administrators of Ontario registered pension plans as a result of COVID-19. In this post, we highlight the various forms of relief that have been made available, […]
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Challenges to benefit plan distinctions
As discussed at our last A.M. Pension Webinar in December 2019, following the 2018 decision of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in Talos v. Grand Erie District School Board (“Talos”), employees and unions continue to challenge age-based benefit plan distinctions. […]
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Pension plan regulatory relief and COVID-19 – additional measures announced
In our most recent posts, we highlighted some of the regulatory relief available to administrators of Ontario registered pension plans and plans registered in jurisdictions other than Ontario as a result of COVID-19. In this post, we highlight additional relief […]
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Missing Pension Plan Members and Unclaimed Balances
Missing or unlocatable pension plan members and unclaimed balances under registered pension plans are a significant challenge for plan administrators. On June 21, 2018, the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities (“CAPSA”) published draft “Guideline #9: Searching for Un-locatable Members […]
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Alberta: New Pension Rights for Common-law Spouses
As a result of a recent decision of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench, common-law spouses in Alberta now (finally) have the right to divide pension benefits on relationship breakdown. In this blog post, we discuss the change in pension […]
