The Government of Canada may use its power over criminal law to enforce limits on greenhouse gas emission, according to an authority on constitutional law. Peter Hogg, professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School and scholar in residence at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, argues in a new report, released by the C.D. Howe Institute, that Parliament is within the bounds of the law to use criminal... 

There was a time when RRSP season was all about smoking out the good deals — pun intended. These days many investors are looking not just for good returns but for feel-good good returns. Initially, this meant negatively screening investments — a term used to refer to weeding out companies that manufacture or contribute to less than attractive products, such as tobacco. This RRSP season, however,... 

Go out and buy computers. That was the Tory government’s clearest message to business owners in its 2009 budget released on Tuesday in Ottawa. Included in the specifics is a 100% capital cost allowance (CCA) for computers bought between January 27 of this year and February 1, 2011. Debbie Meloche, Canadian private company services tax leader at Price Waterhouse Coopers says that goodie was a pleasant... 

Doug Hyndman, chair of British Columbia’s Securities Commission, continues to stoke the regulatory fires, calling for stiffer criminal enforcement of white-collar crime rather than publicly aired rhetoric on a single Canadian securities regulator. In a 30-minute speech to a who’s-who of Bay Street, Hyndman emphasized the need for Canadian authorities to take white-collar crime more seriously. “If...