Monthly Archives: May 2009

Demand notes

Lawyers will be familiar with Hare v. Hare, 2006 CanLII 41650, in which the Ontario Court of Appeal held that the limitation period for a demand note began to run with its delivery not with default, much to the consternation … Continue reading

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Objections Tips and Tricks

I’ve written a short article that provides some tips and tricks for preparing a notice of objection.

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Disposition

An employee of a corporation owns an option to purchase a share in the capital of the corporation. The corporation decides to amend the terms of the option. Does the amendment have any tax consequences? Maybe.

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Nightmare

Unfortunately, with the experience I have working with the CRA, it is only too easy for me to imagine how this might happen: ‘Revenue Canada refuses to pay for million-dollar mistake‘. Wow.

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Tiny

I often send links to clients and colleagues by email, but sometimes the links are extremely long and complicated so that they are broken and unusable when they arrive at their destination. That’s where tinyurl.com comes in handy. “http://www.lawtimesnews.com/Headline-News/Record-$169-million-award-will-raise-the-bar” becomes … Continue reading

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