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When it comes to buying and selling “leaky condos” most people discuss the liabilities. What buyers and sellers should also consider are the possible assets. Potential assets of a leaky condo include refunds on repair assessments, PST rebates and litigation settlements. Evaluating the potential of actually receiving these monies is critical before marketing your condominium.

The bitterness and desire for public recognition of the significant harm caused by the Chinese head tax led to a recent class action, seeking on behalf of those throughout Canada who were forced to pay the tax, as well as their surviving family members, a public apology, damages in excess of a billion dollars, and other remedies.

RTO Development.

B.C. Energy Policy - Interim Report.

A brief overview of current natural gas contracting issues (and solutions) as they pertain to Alberta buyers who are significant industrial, commercial or institutional end users, with a particular emphasis on management of the end user's gas costs. The paper thereby also provides the basis for a comparison to the similar issues confronting electricity end users.

This paper explores selected contracting issues under energy supply agreements in the context of the Alberta marketplace. For purposes of this paper, the term ‘energy supply agreement’ will be used when referring to either an energy supply agreement between a consumer and a retailer or a direct sales agreement between a buyer and a direct seller.

The corporate opportunity doctrine is a prophylactic and, some might say, restrictive rule which prohibits fiduciaries from taking for themselves or diverting to an associate or affiliate a maturing business opportunity which their beneficiary is actively pursuing, or which their beneficiary can be said to have some connection to or expectancy of, and which the beneficiary might have had an interest in pursuing had the fiduciary disclosed its existence to him or her.

This paper will focus particularly on the western Canadian venture capital market and provide an outline of a typical venture capital investment in a Canadian company including the provisions that a venture capital will ask for in a term sheet and subsequent definitive documentation.

A brief discussion of different approaches to “ethical investment” and the current status of such investment in Canada, together with a legal analysis and the obstacles to overcome if considering adoption of an ethical investment policy.