Jul 31, 2023 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
The Manitoba government has joined Québec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick in considering or implementing legislation respecting the use of the titles “financial planner” and “financial advisor”. Title protection legislation in the province would prohibit the...
Aug 17, 2022 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
It’s been a year since we wrote about proposed draft regulations under Saskatchewan’s The Financial Planners and Financial Advisors Act. The title protection framework was initially based primarily on Ontario’s title protection framework, requiring approval for...
Nov 30, 2021 | News, Regulatory Compliance
National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions (NI 45-106) exempts certain distributions of securities from the prospectus requirements. However, reliance on many of these exemptions requires issuers to report prospectus-exempt distributions to every securities...
Oct 29, 2021 | BLG Resource Corner
Our colleagues at BLG have written a number of articles we thought might interest our readers, including the following: TCFD implementation: The Shifting Landscape of Climate Change Policy in North America Insurance as a Cybersecurity and Privacy Risk Management Tool...
May 31, 2021 | News, Regulatory Compliance
On May 18, 2021, the securities regulatory authorities in Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Saskatchewan (the “participating securities regulators”) published the underlying data used to prepare the sixth-year review of women on boards and in...
