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Moms Are Here To Help (Podcast)
The Gap We're Solving: This podcast addresses a dual challenge in today's financial landscape. For next-generation investors, it provides warm, trusted guidance to help them set and achieve their goals—and find the right financial service provider to support their efforts. For financial service providers, it's a call to evolve: adapting their services and tools to meet the needs of younger investors, rather than simply applying the same approaches used with the baby boom generation.
Canada Finance
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Babin Bessner Spry LLP
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Who Bears The Loss Among Innocent Parties After Payment Fraud? Saskatchewan Court Of Appeal Provides Some Clarity
Canadian courts are increasingly asked to allocate fraud losses between innocent parties—victims and their financial institutions. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal's decision in Honeybadger Enterprises Ltd. v. Bue provides crucial clarity on common law principles governing liability allocation, establishing that parties whose conduct involves affirmative acts facilitating fraud will bear the loss, while financial institutions owe no duty to police transactions or warn customers absent contractual obli
Canada Criminal
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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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Prediction Markets: Evolving Regulation In Canada
Surging trading volumes, rapid regulatory change and well-publicized controversies in respect of United States prediction markets have brought new prominence to the regulation of prediction markets. Until this year, there had been no formal guidance provided for businesses looking to offer trading in prediction market contracts (also referred to as “event contracts”) in Canada in accordance with existing regulatory frameworks, and, in particular, there has been significant uncertainty concerning the application of securities law restrictions to the trading of event contracts.
Canada Finance
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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
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Prediction Markets In Canada: A Category-by-Category Regulatory Framework
Canadian regulators have established a category-by-category framework for prediction markets, permitting certain economic and financial event contracts through securities dealers while directing sports and entertainment contracts outside that regime. This emerging approach creates distinct regulatory pathways depending on contract structure and underlying event type, raising critical questions about classification, market integrity, and compliance for platforms, dealers, and financial institutions navigatin
Canada Finance
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Bennett Jones LLP
Article
TSX ou NYSE pour les PAPE du secteur minier : où s’inscrire ? – Enseignements juridiques à l’intention des sociétés fermées qui envisagent de faire un appel public à l’épargne – Partie 2 de 3
Les sociétés minières canadiennes font face à une décision stratégique cruciale : s'inscrire à la TSX ou opter pour une bourse américaine comme le NYSE ou le Nasdaq. Cet article examine les avantages distincts de chaque marché, notamment l'expertise sectorielle du Canada, la profondeur des capitaux américains et les implications en matière de coûts, de conformité et de calendrier d'exécution.
Canada Energy
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Miller Thomson LLP
Article
The Investment Fund Rules Book
The Canadian investment fund industry is regulated by, among other things, a number of National Instruments. The Investment Fund Rules Book, prepared by members of BLG's Investment Management Group, incorporates the most commonly used national instruments and policies affecting investment funds and their managers, and includes all amendments to the various National Instruments that came into force as of July 1, 2026. It does not reflect other amendments that have been proposed but are not yet in force on the date of publication.
Canada Finance
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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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SCA Decides On The Deductibility Of Raising Fees As 'Similar Finance Charges' Under Section 24J
‘Interest’ is deductible in terms of section 24J(2) of the Income Tax Act. The term ‘interest’ is defined to include any interest ‘or similar finance charges’. The meaning of ‘similar finance charges’ has been uncertain since the 2016 amendment replaced the broader expression ‘related finance charges’ with ‘similar finance charges’. Under the previous wording, the SCA held in CSARS v South African Custodial Services that various costs closely connected to obtaining finance, including guarantee, advisory, margin, commitment, legal and administration fees, qualified as ‘related finance charges’.
Canada Finance
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Fasken
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Le point sur les dispenses accordées par l’OCRI en 2025 : considérations clés pour les courtiers et les personnes autorisées
L'OCRI continue d'utiliser des dispenses pour relever les défis pratiques liés à la réglementation des courtiers membres. Les dispenses accordées en 2025 visaient plusieurs domaines récurrents, notamment les activités de négociation, la double inscription, les cryptoactifs, le prêt de titres et l'assurance des compétences, démontrant une approche de réglementation fondée sur des principes et la proportionnalité.
Canada Finance
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McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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The Complete Guide To Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) For 2026-27 For Canadian Crypto Traders, Investors, And Accountants—and Enhanced Mandated Data Sharing Of Wallets With CRA
The Canada Revenue Agency’s access to information about cryptocurrency and other crypto-assets is entering a new phase. Canadian taxpayers have always been responsible for identifying, valuing, classifying, and reporting taxable crypto activity, even where an exchange issued no Canadian tax slip, the transaction occurred through a foreign platform, or the assets were never converted into Canadian dollars. 
Canada Tax
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Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.
Article
Le FNB d’à côté? L’OCRI et les ACVM définissent les obligations des FNB étrangers
Le 29 juillet 2026, l'OCRI et les ACVM ont publié l'Avis conjoint 81-339 concernant les pratiques sectorielles à l'égard des fonds négociés en bourse à l'étranger. Cet avis traite des obligations de prospectus et d'inscription pour les gestionnaires de FNB étrangers, ainsi que des obligations de connaissance du produit, du client et de détermination de la convenance pour les courtiers. Les gestionnaires et courtiers doivent maintenant évaluer leurs pratiques
Canada Finance
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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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CSA And CIRO Issue Guidance Related To Event Contracts
The Canadian Securities Administrators and CIRO have issued guidance clarifying their regulatory stance on event contracts and prediction markets. While declining jurisdiction over sports and entertainment-based contracts, regulators maintain oversight of event contracts tied to economic and financial indicators, creating a nuanced framework that requires careful analysis of each product's structure and underlying event.
Canada Finance
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McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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