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Byline: BILL CURRY; Staff OTTAWA -- An Indigenous business leader is calling on Ottawa to eliminate tokenism in the federal procurement program aimed at helping Indigenous businesses by imposing tougher [...]

Introduction Since the introduction of 'employee ownership trusts' (EOTs) to the UK in 2014, the employee ownership (EO) sector has seen exponential growth with many more company owners choosing to [...]

Starting a new business is exciting, with many key decisions ahead. What will the business be called? Will you have a logo and a tag line? Who will be part [...]

Following an earlier notification issued in 2021, and as part of efforts to support Karnataka's economic growth and the booming information technology ('IT') and IT enabled services industry, the Government [...]

One of the most frequent questions we get is whether to operate an organization through a single entity or multiple entities. There are quite a few overlapping and interlocking issues [...]

Businesses need to be ready for prohibitions and a staggered compliance timetable that takes effect from early 2025 The European Union's (EU) new cross-sector regulation covering artificial intelligence (AI) passed [...]

The Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020 is the primary legislation for the formation of business entities [and non-business entities] and to a great extent, the operations of these [...]

The state law, which goes into effect Sunday, requires businesses to include any surcharges in the prices listed for the products or services they sell. A new law going into [...]

Byline: WENDY CUKIER, MORLEY GUNDERSON Wendy Cukier is a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University and the founder of the [...]

Byline: SEAN SILCOFF; Staff The federal government will explore whether to give innovative companies that develop and keep intellectual property here a tax break on sales of their inventions globally [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE; Staff The federal Labour Minister is promising to introduce additional legislation next year to eradicate imports made with forced labour. Seamus O'Regan, in an interview, said this [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff British Columbia's securities regulator becomes Canada' first provincial watchdog to impose penalties for less serious violations of investment market rules without holding a hearing. The British [...]

Hidden within the multiple budget announcements, some welcome news was announced for scale-ups in the form of changes to the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). [...]

The trust enterprise pursuant to Art. 932a §§ 1 to 170 of the Liechtenstein Persons and Companies Act 'PGR' holds a unique position in Liechtenstein law, functioning as a company [...]

Byline: JAMESON BERKOW; Staff Canada's junior stock exchange is growing up. The Canadian Securities Exchange unveiled plans Thursday to launch a senior tier for the largest issuers listed on its [...]

Our reporter took a five-mile walk around Manhattan to find businesses that are using facial recognition technology. In early February, I spent $171.59 to see the Rangers play the Canucks [...]

Byline: ANDREW CLEMENT Professor emeritus in the faculty of information at the University of Toronto In poll after poll over the past three decades, solid majorities of Canadians have expressed [...]

On May 11, 2023, the Tennessee Information Protection Act ('TIPA') was signed into law effective on July 1, 2025. In doing so, Tennessee has joined the patchwork of U.S. consumer [...]

It's not just Mickey Mouse that's feeling the heat from anti-ESG efforts lately. Reuters reports that, so far this year, legislators have filed about 99 so-called 'ESG backlash' bills compared [...]

In the Union Budget 2023, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about India taking big strides in enhancing the ease of doing business. The introduction of PAN as a single-point identifier [...]

In a recent presentation I attended given by David Gonski at the Governance Summit held by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Mr Gonski laid out some issues an [...]

Question 2 about the code of companies and associations: when the rights attached to share classes are changed, how should you go about a verification report in practice? 1. Introduction [...]

Generally, business organisations within a country contribute to the development of its economy. A critical review of thriving economies will reveal that successful business organisations within such economies, have a [...]

Byline: CHRIS HANNAY, SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON At Gordon Dean's small-town grocery stores in Ontario and Quebec, the rattle of coins in the checkout tills is a more infrequent sound than [...]

The global economic downturn means that we are likely to see more restructuring and reorganization measures during 2023. Employers need to be aware of compliance with the federal Worker Adjustment [...]

The BBC will review its social media guidelines after presenter Gary Lineker was asked to step back from hosting duties for a Twitter comment on immigration policy. Should all organisations [...]

Explaining the mysterious world of company compliance In recent years 'compliance' has become something of a buzz word in governmental, business and professional circles, whilst a perceived lack of 'compliance' [...]

Coming Into Force Bill 78, entitled An act mainly to improve the transparency of enterprises (herein after 'Transparency Act'), was assented to on June 8, 2021, and will come into [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Friday upheld a controversial Texas social media law that bars companies from removing posts based on a [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a controversial Texas social media law that bars companies from removing posts based on a person's political ideology, [...]

Private companies with sole directors find themselves in a state of uncertainty regarding the authority of their sole director to manage effectively. Judgments in 2022 have called into question whether [...]

Most businesses in New Zealand will need to sign a business contract with other businesses, especially as they grow and expand their operations. For instance, you might be looking to [...]

The Québec Government has published a new webpage (available in French only) with further details on the implementation of Bill 78, An Act mainly to improve the transparency of enterprises, [...]

We have seen a market driven push for companies to embrace diversity and inclusion (D&I) policies over the last few years, which reflects a key shift in social and cultural [...]

Byline: JEAN-PAUL BUREAUD, EDWARD WAITZER Jean-Paul Bureaud is the executive director of FAIR Canada, an independent national non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for investor rights. Edward Waitzer is a lawyer [...]

Byline: ANTHONY WINSON Professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology at the University of Guelph Canadian consumers have become increasingly alarmed by dramatic price increases in a variety of products they [...]