Curate RegWatch

6692 POSTS
In addition to our original coverage, RegWatch curates top stories on issues and impacts arising from the regulation of economic, social and environmental activity in Canada and the U.S.

Exclusive articles:

Ontario’s market watchdog adds criminal offences unit

“Part of the strategy is to put more people in jail” Amid the failure of the RCMP’s specialized corporate crime unit to notch a single...

OSC modifies plans for controversial no-contest settlements

If the Ontario Securities Commission adopts controversial “no-contest” settlements that include fines but no admission of wrongdoing, it will not do so in cases...

CRTC kills three-year contracts in latest futile attack on the wireless industry: Terence Corcoran

In another sweep of its regulatory apparatus, a genteel piece of equipment covered in fine, consumerist rhetoric, Canada’s telecom regulator Monday told Canadians they...

Canadians can cancel phone contracts without penalty after two years under new wireless code

Key provisions of Canada's new wireless code The following provisions will have national application and come into force Dec. 2, 2013: Cellphone providers must unlock unsubsidized...

Debt consolidation firm remains licensed despite legal and financial problems: Baines

Complaints, lawsuits and unsatisfied judgments against Don Antle and his firm, Options Credit Services Canada Ltd., are piling up, but they’re still in business. Don...