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Competition & antitrust law Competition law in Canada is set out in a single federal statute, the Competition Act. Related regulations, guidelines, interpretation bulletins and case law all provide guidance [...]

Foreign investment in Canada is regulated by the federal Investment Canada Act (ICA). Its purpose is to encourage foreign investment on terms that are beneficial to Canada. While the ICA [...]

In a significant development for visa applicants, all U.S. consulates in Mexico announced that they have stopped accepting visa applications from third country nationals (TCNs) until further notice. This decision [...]

In an important legal development, a federal judge in Texas issued an injunction against a Biden administration initiative, Keeping Families Together, aimed at providing a streamlined pathway to citizenship for [...]

On Oct. 28, 2022, Canada's federal government implemented a new policy under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) pursuant to which investments by foreign state owned or influenced enterprises in Canadian [...]

On March 24, 2021, Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry issued updated national security review guidelines under the Investment Canada Act. The guidelines explain the government's approach to assessing [...]

The Canadian Competition Bureau has announced that it is increasing its merger review filing fee to $72,000 from $50,000 effective May 1, 2018. The new filing fee is subject to [...]

In late August, Canada's Competition Bureau announced that it had concluded extensive investigations of three matters involving three of the largest providers of air transportation services for passengers and cargo [...]

On December 19, 2016, the Canadian government published Guidelines on the National Security Review of Investments under the Investment Canada Act (ICA). Included in the Guidelines are a non-exhaustive list [...]

By way of update to our August 2016 MarketCaps, on November 1, 2016, the Canadian government announced two important developments related to the Investment Canada Act in its Fall Economic [...]

On August 4, 2016, as part of its annual report on the Investment Canada Act for fiscal year 2015-16, the Canadian government disclosed, for the first time, high level information [...]

Each year, Canada's Competition Act transaction size threshold and the Investment Canada Act threshold applicable to the direct acquisition of a non-cultural Canadian business by a state-owned enterprise of a [...]

On June 3, 2015, the Canadian Competition Tribunal ordered Parkland and Pioneer to preserve and hold separate retail gas stations and supply agreements in six local markets, pending the resolution [...]

Byline: Ian Macdonald Ian Macdonald, president emeritus of York University, remembers Mary Alice Stuart, who died on May 18. The obituary about the late Mary Alice Stuart provided a fitting [...]

ON Thursday, BP was finally forced to acknowledge that far more oil is escaping from its damaged well into the Gulf of Mexico than the oft-repeated estimate of 5,000 barrels [...]

Swiss Reinsurance Co. of Switzerland posted stellar 2006 net profit to 4.56 billion Swiss Francs ($3.74 billion) from $2.3 billion Francs last year. The insurance giant is endorsing its longterm financial forecasts. Dividends are to increase to 3.4 Francs per share from 2.5 Francs per share last year.

American International Group Inc. of the United States is in talks with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and United States regulators concerning inflated financial reports. The insurance giant is the center of a civil-fraud case and a partial settlement is expected by the end of the month.

From Mr Ian MacDonald. Sir, Brian Jenkins ('Less of a gamble if you know your onions', FT Money & Business, April 23-24) believes spread betting is an opportunity to make [...]

From Mr Ian McDonald. Sir, Surely the dilemma about funding improved school meals in order to improve the diet and health of pupils ('Minister's plan for better school meals 'lacks [...]

On October 7, 2013, the Canadian government announced its decision to block Accelero Capital Holdings' proposed $520 million acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services' Allstream Division under the national security provisions [...]

It is 15 years since I firstset foot on the 'Island of Love' for a honeymoon. It has been an enduring romance - we are still deeply in love.And my [...]

George Harrison's musical career covered his life from the age of 15 to not far short of 59. What counts for most in quality of inspiration occupies an eight-year span [...]

1 Walkin' (from Walkin', 1954) Miles Davis, who died 10 years ago this week, was the jazz equivalent of Stravinsky in classical music and of Picasso in painting: a compulsive […]

INTRODUCTION Parties to a legal dispute want resolution. They want the legal process to help them settle their dispute, not drag it out. They don't want litigation that can seem [...]

Eddie Russell, heir apparent to the stills of Wild Turkey bourbon, cast his eye down to the small creek which feeds the Kentucky River as we stood among the lofty, [...]

Expect low-cost flights to Denmark when a new passenger terminal opens in 2002 at Billund, in the west of the country. Work on the project, which will cost DKr850m, has [...]

Non-smokers have become increasingly accustomed to having things their own way, while the status of smokers has never been lower, writes Marian Edmunds. The latter must take circuitous routes if [...]

As reported on Littler's Global Immigration Counsel Blog on November 5, 2009, the Government of India's (GOI) Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) released guidance on permissible use of Business Visas [...]

Foreign investors have accelerated the sale of Japanese bonds due to the fall in debt securities prices. Foreign investors sold 963.5 billion yen (7.34 billion euros) in Japanese bonds during the first week of September 2003.

Janus Capital Management L.L.C.'s investment managing director, Helen Young Hayes, is resigning from the company on June 16, 2003. The high-profile Hayes was in charge of around $22 billion in fund assets.

Cyprus is seeing a growth in its tourist industry, and is seeking to upgrade facilities for tourists, such as marinas and golf courses. Ayia Napa is a south eastern resort which has successfully attracted sports fans out of season through building soccer facilities. The number of visitors from Russia is increasing, and Cyprus also aims to increase numbers from Japan and the US. The northern area is hampered by not being recognised by governments other than Turkey, and travelers have to reach northern Cyprus through Turkey.

The Philippines tourist industry benefits from beaches and scenery, but tourists have a number of complaints. These include pollution, begging, poor transportation, and heavy traffic. The tourism secretary, Eduardo Pilapil, discovered these problems after he was appointed in Jul 1995, when a report detailing these problems was presented to him. The government is seeking to curtail sex tourism and promote cultural tourism and the beauty of the scenery.

Augusto Zobel is president of Ayala Corp, a Philippines real estate compoany. His family holds a stake of 64% in the company which also owns Ayala Land. Real estate is helping push up share prices on the Philippines stock market, and the company holds valuable land assets. The company is involved in a range of projects including office developments and high quality residential investments. There is debate as to how cyclical the industry is likely to be.

The Philippines stock exchange should benefit from reforms which had been delayed due to a dispute inside the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines. Regulatory responsibility is to be rationalised, regulations are to be reinforced, and there will be a minimum number for non-executive directors in companies that have a public listing. Banks will be included among recognised stockbrokers, and a central depositary system is to be set up.

Deregulation has encouraged foreign investment in the Philippines. This applies to manufacturing industry, and investment in insurance and banking is expected to increase. Japanese companies, hit by the rise in the value of the Japanese yen, have interests in the Philippines. Local labor is cheap and prepared to learn new skills. Political stability has improved and this has helped foster a climate in which foreign investment can prosper.

The article reports on plans under discussion by Citigroup Inc. and other big banks to create a large fund giving financial backing to shaky mortgage securities and other investments hit by the global credit crisis. The talks are being brokered by the U.S. Treasury Department, specifically undersecretary for domestic finance Robert Steel.

The article focuses on financial losses which have been seen in 2007 in European mutual funds and banks, including French insurer AXA SA's money management unit and the German bank KfW, as a result of their involvement with investments backed by the U.S. subprime mortgage market, which had a crisis in 2006 and 2007.

The article discusses 2007 financial reports from the world's largest insurance companies, including Germany's Allianz SE and France's AXA SA which are due to be released by the end of August in 2007 and the impact a 2006 and 2007 crisis in the U.S. subprime mortgage industry could have on them. Industry analysts feel that most of the companies' finances will not be effected by the crisis but those of companies, including CNA Financial Corp. that had exposure to the subprime industry will.

Focuses on the plans of Citigroup Inc. to abandon its asset-management business and increase its brokerage operation. Plans of the company to swap its asset-management business for the brokerage operations of Legg Mason Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland; Impact of the deal on both companies; Comments of Legg Mason chairman Raymond Mason on the deal; Projected influence of the deal on each company's profitability.

The article reports that mutual fund managers are no better at picking stocks than the computer generated Standard & Poor 500 (S&P 500) and Dow Jones Industrial Average stock indexes. The majority of actively managed mutual funds have performed more poorly than the S&P 500 for the past twenty years. The funds continue to attract investors, especially since their most successful years have been 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Reports on the underfunding of the pension plans and postretirement health-care obligations of U.S. companies in the Standard and Poor's 500-stock index as of June 2006.

Presents an interview with Bill Miller, whose $11.9 billion Legg Mason Value Trust edged out the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index for the 14th consecutive year. Miller's suggestion that the biggest opportunity for investors is to think in the long term; Discussion of one stock that he owns that has been controversial, Amazon.com; Reflections on where Mr. Miller see values in the stock market today; Speculation about the market's direction in 2005.

Reports on developments in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday, November 23, 2004. Rise in crude oil prices; Rise in cattle futures; Impact of investors' concerns about the U.S. trade and budget deficits; Rise in stocks; Mixed bond performance.

Reports that regulators broadened their crackdown on fund-trading abuses by punishing two insurance firms for permitting aggressive trading by hedge funds that allegedly harmed individual investors who had put their money in seemingly sleepy investment vehicles. Agreement by insurers Conesco Inc. and Inviva Inc. to pay $20 million to settle allegations that their practices of secretly welcoming aggressive traders into certain funds within variable annuities had whittled away the retirement holdings of long-term investors; Potential for additional cases against insurers in the sprawling fund-trading scandal; Suggestion that variable annuities have been a haven for market-timers, whose rapid trading harms other investors.

Reports that many investors do not know that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debt often constitute the majority of bond mutual-fund portfolios that give no hint of such holdings in their fund names. Use by funds with Freddie or Fannie debt of words such as "government" or "federal" in their formal names; Observation that Fannie and Freddie are not part of the federal government and repayment is not guaranteed by the government; Concerns from investors who assumed their government funds would be invested mainly in U.S. Treasurys; Examination of the Fidelity Intermediate Government Income Fund.