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Archives for October 2016

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Bill to enhance the Canada Pension Plan introduced

On October 6, 2016, the federal government introduced Bill C-26, An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act and the Income Tax Act to enhance the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Canada's government provided pension plan.

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CRTC’s reminder on record-keeping for CASL compliance

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission issued an enforcement advisory directing businesses and individuals to consider the importance of record-keeping pursuant to Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL). Under CASL, the onus remains on the sender of commercial electronic messages (CEMs) to demonstrate that it had the proper consents in place to send CEMs (whether implied or explicit).

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Back-to-work postal legislation found in violation of Charter rights

Justice Firestone of the Ontario Superior Court recently decided that back–to–work legislation introduced in 2011 aimed at striking postal workers from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers was an unjustified violation of the Union’s rights to freedom of association and expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As a result, the judge retroactively declared the legislation of no force or effect.

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