News by subject: LAW/LEGAL ISSUES

On Wednesday, Feb. 20, the Fraser Institute will release a new book on First Nations in Canada. The Wealth of First Nations compares the living standards of business-oriented First Nations that generate their own revenue with First Nations that rely...

Arctic Glacier Income Fund (the "Fund") is providing a default status report, in accordance with the alternative information guidelines set out in National Policy 12-203 Cease Trade Orders for Continuous Disclosure Defaults ("National Policy...

On February 8, 2019, Canada Zhoufa Agricultural Holding Company Limited ("Canada Zhoufa") of 6625 - 818 Cambie Road, Richmond, BC V6X 3X9 disposed of 2,700,000 common shares ("Common Shares") of Empire Industries Ltd. ("Empire" or the "Company") via...

ICC International Cannabis Corp. ("ICC" or "International Cannabis" or the "Company") announces that it has received inquiries from the British Columbia Securities Commission (the "BCSC") with respect to its agreement involving Green Gene Research...

A new report published by a working group of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations exposes substantial issues with student questionnaires on courses and teaching (SQCTs), including endemic bias and systemic discrimination....

Kane Biotech Inc. , (the "Corporation" or "Kane Biotech"), is pleased to announce that the U.S. District Court of Eastern Missouri that is overseeing the lawsuit filed by Kane Biotech against Nestec, Ltd., aka Nestec, S.A., Nestle Purina Petcare...

Canada Carbon Inc. (the "Company") announces that its attorney, Roger Paiement of Beauregard-Avocats, was successful in having the Municipality of the Township of Gore ("Gore") recognize the acquired rights of a sandpit operator. While the file is...

Helpforme's new Estate Litigation group merges Hammerberg's long-standing Wills, Estate & Trusts team with its dynamic personal legal services dispute resolution team, to create more depth of service with a full-scope Estate Law practice. This...

Emerald Health Therapeutics, Inc. ("Emerald") announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Verdélite Sciences Inc. ("Verdélite"), which operates a 75,000 square foot indoor cannabis cultivation facility in St.-Eustache, Quebec, has entered into...

Sandy Lake Gold Inc. ("Sandy Lake" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has been awarded $926,960.03 in costs in the Arbitration Proceedings with Treasury Metals Inc. As noted in the press release of July 9, 2018 (available at...

Ultra Petroleum Corp. ("Ultra Petroleum" or the "Company") announces that earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delivered a favorable opinion in the appeal proceedings by Ultra Petroleum about the make-whole claims that had...

Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. is investigating potential claims against certain officers and directors of National Beverage Corp. . Click here to participate in the action. On July 17, 2018, a complaint was filed alleging that between July 17, 2014...

The following statement is being issued by Sotos LLP, Koskie Minsky LLP, Siskinds LLP, Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman LLP and Siskinds Desmeules, s.e.n.c.r.l. ("Class Counsel") regarding the Canadian FX Price-Fixing Class Action. You may be able to...

Pipestone Energy Corp. ("Pipestone Energy") announces that in accordance with the requirements of National Instrument 51-102 - Continuous Disclosure Obligations ("NI 51-102") it has filed the unaudited interim financial statements for its...

West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd. ("West High Yield" or the "Company") announces that the Company has on December 28, 2018 entered into a settlement agreement with Drinkard Metalox Inc. ("Drinkard") of North Carolina. In the settlement and...

The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP reminds Aphria Inc. ("Aphria") investors that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Aphria on...

Partners Real Estate Investment Trust ("Partners REIT" or the "REIT") is pleased to announce that the terms of the Class Action settlement previously announced on October 31, 2018 between, among others, certain former trustees and a former officer...

First Bauxite Corporation ("First Bauxite" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it obtained a final order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the "Court") today approving the Company's going-private transaction via an arrangement...

Aeterna Zentaris Inc., has settled its previously disclosed litigation in South Carolina and Canada with former officers of the Company, David Dodd and Philip Theodore. As part of that settlement, the Company has agreed to make a settlement payment...

Alexandria Minerals Corporation ("AZX" or the "Company") announced today that it has received a Statement of Claim filed by Eric Owens with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. For reasons described in the Company's March 28, 2018 press...

An armoured car robbery in Edmonton involving an improvised explosive device (IED) injured two GardaWorld guards at around 2 a.m. on Thursday. The workers, a man and a woman, are members of Teamsters Local Union 362. Both are currently in...

This notice is about class actions relating to Foreign Exchange ("FX") transactions. To All Persons in Canada Who, Between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2013, Entered Into an FX Instrument*, Either Directly or Indirectly Through an Intermediary,...

Day Scholars reacted to news that Canada has entered into a settlement agreement regarding the Indian Day Schools class-action lawsuit by questioning why Canada has not yet resolved a similar class action lawsuit brought on behalf of Day Scholars who...

Paulson & Co. Inc. ("Paulson"), one of the largest, long-term shareholders in Detour Gold Corporation  ("Detour Gold" or the "Company") issues the following statement in response to the...

The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Aphria Inc. ("Aphria") on behalf of purchasers...

Paulson & Co. Inc. ("Paulson"), one of the largest, long-term shareholders in Detour Gold Corporation  ("Detour Gold" or the "Company") announced its disappointment and dismay with a threat made to shareholders by...

Canada Carbon Inc. (the "Company") , (FF:U7N1) announces that on the morning of Friday, November 30th, 2018, Canada Carbon's lawyers attended Superior Court and presented a motion they requested regarding the conduct of GSLR and their failure to...

The BC government's Labour Code review Panel has made some promising recommendations to reform the BC Labour Code, the most notable being the implementation of successorship provisions in the Code, according to final submissions SEIU released Friday....

Colorado Resources Ltd. ("Colorado" or the "Company") announces that it has resolved all outstanding matters that were in dispute with Mr. Travis, the Company's former Chief Executive Officer, and his company and has entered into a settlement...

On Thursday 29 November 2018 a Honduran criminal court is expected to issue a ruling against eight individuals accused of involvement in the 2016 murder of the activist Berta Cáceres. The case has attracted large international interest, including a...

TriMetals Mining Inc.  , (the "Company"), announces that on November 22, 2018, an Arbitration Tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands, issued an award awarding the Company's wholly-owned Bermudan subsidiary, South...

Galantas Gold Corporation ("Galantas" or the "Company") (AIM:GAL), the gold-mine developer and explorer, has been advised that the Court Of Appeal has delivered its judgement in regard to an appeal against the Company's planning consent. The Court...

An action will be held at the PC convention in protest of the Progressive Conservative Party's continuing actions to reduce workers' rights in Ontario. Since taking office, Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative Party have made cuts to social...

SouthGobi Resources Ltd. ("SouthGobi" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the execution of a deed of settlement ("Settlement Deed") by SouthGobi Sands LLC ("SGS"), a subsidiary of the Company, and First Concept Industrial Group Limited...

Copibec and Université Laval are pleased to announce that their out-of-court settlement agreement was approved by Justice Simon Hébert of the Quebec Superior Court and that Université Laval has signed the comprehensive licence agreement applicable to...

Canada Carbon (the "Company") (CCB:TSX-V) (BRUZF:OTC) (U7N1:FF) ? is pleased to announce that on Friday evening, November 9th, 2018 Canada Carbon (the "Company") received a positive ruling from the Superior Court in St. Jerome, Quebec.   The...

TriMetals Mining Inc.  (the "Company" or "TMI") announces that it has received correspondence from the Permanent Court of Arbitration advising that the Arbitration Tribunal will issue the arbitration award (the "Award") on a date prior to the end of...

We are advised by Siskinds, LLP; Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, "$49.8 Million in Class Action Settlements Approved for Distribution for CRT Price-Fixing" issued November 1, 2018...

Partners Real Estate Investment Trust ("Partners REIT" or the "REIT") is pleased to announce that the parties to the Class Action against, among others, certain former trustees and a former officer of Partners REIT, have signed minutes of settlement...

A groundbreaking decision has been released on adoption by non-traditional parenting partners in Canada. Ottawa-based law firm Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP has successfully assisted two women in a non-romantic relationship to apply to adopt a foster...

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is asking the federal government to pause and review its plans for Bill C-69 and further consider the long-term impacts to the country and Canadians. By working collaboratively with the oil and...

GrowMax Resources Corp. (the "Company" or "GrowMax") announced it will defend the lawsuit started on October 1 by BullRun Capital Inc. and Kulwant Malhi (collectively, the "Dissidents"). GrowMax is filing with the Court its own application to...

The Premier told the legislature today that he would scrap paid sick days, as provided in the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, known as Bill 148. Paid sick days and the other reforms in the Act from the legislated increase in the minimum wage to...

The Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch (CBABC) today released An Agenda for Justice ? Platform Updates 2018. This document, an update to An Agenda for Justice 2017, acknowledges increased government investment in key areas and details several issues...

Cameco announced today that the Tax Court of Canada has ruled unequivocally in favour of the company in its dispute of the reassessments issued by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) for the 2003, 2005 and 2006 tax years. The Tax Court ruled that Cameco's...

Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia, the licensing and regulatory body for these professions in BC, has announced disciplinary hearings for three individuals related to the 2014 breach of the tailings storage facility at the Mount Polley...

About 75 community allies rallied around GDI Integrated Facilities Services janitors on Monday afternoon in Vancouver who, up until today, cleaned the Canada Line. The workers have lost their jobs, and with them health and dental benefits and other...

VBI Vaccines Inc. ("VBI", the "Company") is the subject of an article published in Globes, Israel business news, on September 12, 2018, written by Gali Weinreb (the "Article") alleging that VBI failed to meet its responsibilities of disclosure...

Constituents in more than 20 Ontario ridings called on their local Conservative MPPs today to oppose calls from Big Business to scrap the $15 minimum wage. Almost two million workers are counting on the $15 minimum wage which is scheduled to take...

Belo Sun Mining Corp. ("Belo Sun" or the "Company") reports that the Federal Regional Justice in Altamira has ruled that the Construction License ("LI") and Environmental License ("LP") related to the Volta Grande project granted by SEMAS (State...