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Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff A group of early cryptocurrency investors in Canada's first retail bitcoin investment fund have filed a complaint with Ontario's securities regulator, claiming fund manager 3iQ Corp. [...]

Byline: TIM SHUFELT; Staff Investing these days can be absurdly cheap and easy. But the industry is doing its best to make it expensive, complicated and risky. Today, you can [...]

On August 22, 2014, we published Justifiable Expectations Standard: Justifiable Expectations Standard: The Basis for the Exercise of the Public Interest Power of the Ontario Securities Commission ('Justifiable Expectations Standard'), [...]

Byline: BRENDA BOUW The unprecedented trading halt of Emerge Canada Inc.'s exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has raised investor concerns about the often-touted liquidity of the popular investment product and the potential [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, DAVID MILSTEAD Regulators have slapped the entire family of exchange-traded funds from Emerge Canada Inc. with a trading halt, because the company has failed to find an [...]

Byline: TIM SHUFELT; Staff The ETF revolution has opened up all sorts of new options for investors, including the ability to cover up illicit trades. A new study suggests that [...]

It has been approximately nine years since the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) first implemented the 'comply-or-explain' regime that requires companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) either to disclose [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff Trading platforms that reward do-it-yourself investors through 'gamification' strategies are increasing the risk of losses in online portfolios, a new study says. In a research report [...]

This article originally appeared in our Canadian Securities Litigation: Trends to Watch 2023 publication, which provides an in-depth overview of the most significant developments in the Canadian securities litigation landscape [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA; Staff Canadian regulators are paying closer attention to the rise in do-it-yourself investor activity as online users, many of them first-time investors with limited knowledge of financial [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD; Staff Enforcement activity by Canada's provincial stock-market cops dropped sharply during the first two years of the pandemic. Now, as investments look sicker, will regulatory activity get [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead Investor advocates are slamming Ontario's securities watchdog after a recent report by the province's Auditor-General found the regulator's unwillingness to ban some types of mutual [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead Ontario's securities watchdog says new regulations that will soon require advisers to have deeper knowledge of the funds they recommend to clients should not have [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead The Ontario Securities Commission has given Wealthsimple approval to offer more digital coins and tokens on its trading platform - beyond just bitcoin and Ether [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead Ontario's securities regulator could face challenges in enforcing a ban on unregistered foreign cryptocurrency trading platforms doing trades for Ontario residents, especially if the agency [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead As the price of bitcoin continues to tumble this week, the head of Ontario's securities regulator stands by its decision earlier this year to be [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead The Ontario Securities Commission will begin taking steps to enforce new rules on cryptocurrency trading platforms that have failed to meet an April 19 deadline [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead Canadian asset managers are racing to launch the world's first cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund to track the price performance of Ether now that regulators have given [...]

Byline: JAREN KERR, Staff Lead In late January, the Ontario Securities Commission announced that it had seen such a large surge in prospectus filings, it might need to triage them [...]

Byline: IAN RUSSELL Lead President and CEO of the Investment Industry Association of Canada The Canadian Securities Administrators issued an open letter on Feb. 12 in response to the final [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, Staff Lead Reddit chatter from individual investors fuelled massive gains for struggling stocks in a battle against Wall Street professionals. But then the declines began after trading [...]

In December 2020, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published OSC Staff Notice 45-717 Ontario's Exempt Market, a report on capital raising activity by corporate (non-investment fund) issuer's in Ontario's exempt [...]

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) recently released its reasons [PDF] for overturning a decision by the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) conditionally approving a private placement of shares (the Share Issuance) [...]

On October 24, 2016 the OSC released its reasons for decision with respect to the simultaneous hearing, held before the British Columbia Securities Commission and Ontario Securities Commission this summer. [...]

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) recently released a noteworthy decision marking the first instance since changes to the regime governing take-over bids became effective [...]

Summary On October 24, 2016, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) released joint reasons for their decision, In the Matter of Hecla Mining Company and [...]

In a significant decision, the British Columbia and Ontario securities commissions have upheld a contested private placement by the target of an unsolicited take-over bid where they concluded that there [...]

On June 30, 2016, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published for comment Proposed Rule 72-503 Distributions Outside of Canada (the Proposed Rule) that would: provide an exemption from the prospectus [...]

In connection with the establishment of the Ontario Securities Commission's new Whistleblower Program in July 2016, which includes monetary incentives for whistleblowers in Ontario, the Ontario government has approved amendments [...]

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) recently published its Statement of Priorities for the Financial Year to End March 31, 2017 (the Statement). The Statement unveils a new area which the [...]

On July 16, 2016, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced the launch of its Office of the Whistleblower. This is the first paid whistleblower program by a securities regulator in [...]

The Ontario Securities Commission (the 'OSC') is seeking comment on Proposed OSC Rule 72-503 - Distributions Outside of Canada and its related companion policy (the 'Proposed Rule'), to eliminate longstanding [...]

On June 30, 2016, the Ontario Securities Commission (the 'OSC') proposed OSC Rule 72-503 - Distributions Outside of Canada (the 'Proposed Rule'). The Proposed Rule would replace the antiquated Interpretation [...]

Securities regulators in Ontario and Quebec recently announced the launches of separate whistleblower programs in the two jurisdictions. While the Ontario Securities Commission's (OSC) whistleblower program (OSC Program) provides for [...]

On May 4, 2016, an Ontario Securities Commission panel (the Panel) issued its Reasons and Decision In the Matter of Future Solar Developments Inc., containing interpretive guidance on three central [...]

Canada has neither a history nor, some say, a culture of paying for tips. This may be about to change, however, since the Ontario Securities Commission is considering implementing a [...]