Opinion
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Regulatory Streamlining Announced for Investment Fund Dealers and Mutual Fund Dealers
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has announced plans to merge the existing two parallel (and somewhat duplicative) regulatory frameworks of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada
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Why Central Banks Will Crush Bitcoin
Read Barry Campbell in the Globe and Mail on why central banks will crush bitcoin (text below) A bit of history is the best guide to what
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Mary Simon is Canada’s First Indigenous Governor General
Campbell Strategies extends our warmest congratulations to Mary Simon, Canada’s new Governor General. She is the first Indigenous person to serve in this position. My
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Budget 2021 Billion or Billions: Go Big Or Go Home
If you are really lucky as a Finance Minister, you get three Budgets (during your government’s usual 4 year term). The first isn’t really yours,
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Crypto phishing-regulators launch catch & release framework
Increasing concern about unregulated trading in cryptocurrencies has led Canada’s security administrators (the “CSA”) to take steps to regulate the burgeoning crypto market. All platforms that
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New National Security Guidelines Will Complicate Foreign Investments
New guidelines under the Investment Canada Act (“ICA”) now mandate a national security review of a wider range of acquisitions by non Canadians in certain
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Ontario Budget 2021: A Closer Look, Commentary and Analysis
Ontario’s 2021 Budget focuses on the two big issues: protecting people’s health, and, getting the economy back on track. The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the
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Rogers and Shaw may wish they hadn’t proposed a merger at all
When the proposed mergers of Royal Bank RY-T unchno changeand Bank of Montreal BMO-T +0.14% increase, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CM-T +0.34% increase
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Miners & Manufacturers Beware: Canada To Review Overseas Human Rights Abuses
The Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson For Responsible Enterprise (“CORE’) is open for business. Established by Order in Council and not legislation, CORE has no enforcement