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• OSC 'Cracking Down' On Insider Trading

According to an article in today's Globe and Mail, the OSC has been "widening the net" as it investigates potential cases of insider trading in advanc...

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• Insider Trading at Private Companies

Originally Published In The Lexpert Magazine, February 2011 Shareholders of private companies may not be subject to securities regulation, but as g...

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• Multiple Access Ltd. v. McCutcheon, [1982] 2 S.C.R. 161 (1982)

... law-Validity of legislation-Insider trading-Federal and provincial provisions similar-...

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• Amendments to Ontario Securities Act Affect Insider Trading Rules

Bill 135, Helping Ontario Families and Managing Responsibly Act, 2010 (the Act), first introduced by Ontario's Minister of Finance on November 18, 201...

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• Valuation Effects of Recent Corporate Dividend and Income Trust Distribution Tax Changes

We analyze the valuation effects of the Canadian federal government's announcement on November 23, 2005 of a reduction in the taxation of corporate dividends and the announcement on October 31, 2006 of a plan to eliminate the tax-deductibility of income trust distributions. Though high dividend stocks and income trusts reacted positively to the 2005 announcement, the abnormal returns were greater for income trusts. Conversely, both securities reacted negatively to the 2006 announcement with the decline bigger for income trusts. The larger price reactions of income trusts and the lack of statistical significance in the cross-sectional tests of the abnormal returns suggest that the popularity of income trusts in Canada was mostly driven by their favourable income tax status. The implicati...

... US retail and institutional investors' trading behaviour, Graham and Kumar (2006) find that retai... charged a Finance Canada official with insider trading (see Chase, 2007). The results reported in...

• Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
• Vol. 25 Nbr. 1, March 2008

• Important Changes To Canadian Insider Trading Disclosure Regime

The Canadian securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada have enacted a new, uniform insider trading disclosure regime which ...

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• Recent Development in Insider Trading

The prohibition against insider trading, a cornerstone of Canadian securities law, remains one of the few areas of such law not completely harmonized ...

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• Court Confirms B.C. Securities Commission Jurisdiction Over Insider Trading Activity Occurring Outside Province

Copyright 2011, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Originally published in Blakes Bulletin on Securities Litigation and Regulation, November 2011 On N...

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• Business Watch

IBM Corp. put a top executive on leave Monday after he was charged in an insider trading scandal for allegedly leaking secrets about IBM's earnings and financial dealings with corporate partners. Rodney Adkins, who has been senior vice-president in charge of development and manufacturing, was tapped to assume [Robert Moffat]'s position on an acting basis. That gives him oversight over IBM's mainframes and computer servers. MONTREAL -- Air Canada's (TSX:AC.B) unionized employees are about to become shareholders with a 15 per cent stake in the airline in exchange for agreeing to a pension moratorium.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 21, 2009

• Insider Trading And Confidentiality Agreements Following The U.S. District Court's Decision In SEC v. Cuban

On July 17, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the Court) dismissed insider trading charges brought against Mark Cuban by the...

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