Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 72 - Cultural Roots, Belonging, and the Fear of Change: What’s Next for Inclusion?
Daily Compliance News: June 24, 2025, The Questions, Questions, and More Questions Edition
Hot Topics in International Trade - Tariff Mitigation Strategies
Everything Compliance, Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 151, The What is Illegal DEI Edition
Adapting to Tariffs and Other Trade Policy Shifts Under the Trump Administration
A Brief Primer on Tariffs Under the Trump Administration
Protect, Prepare, Prevail: Navigating a Complex Cybersecurity World
Private M&A 2024: Key Trends and Forecasts
Patent Considerations in View of the Nearshoring Trends to the Americas
Examining E-Discovery in Competition Law
No Password Required: Education Lead at Semgrep and Former Czar for Canada’s Election Security
Shifting Dynamics in Private Equity
4 Key Takeaways | Major U.S. Supreme Court Trademark & Copyright Decisions
Hidden Traffic : New Human Trafficking and Child Labor Regulation in Canada with Sean Stephenson
[Podcast] Catching Up on Canadian Environmental Regulation
[Podcast] USMCA in Review, with C.J. Mahoney, Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
Episode 4 - USMCA and the trade relationship between the U.S.A, Mexico, & China
Five Questions, Five Answers: Electric Mobility Canada on Its Promises for a Cleaner Economy
Five Questions, Five Answers: The Voice of Canadian Automotive Parts Manufacturers
The Great Green North: A Discussion on Canada’s Environmental Regulations
Between tariffs, tightening export controls, evolving sanctions, and ramped up enforcement, the cost and complexity of compliance is rising for oil and gas supply chains. ACI’s Trade & Sanctions Compliance for the Oil and...more
Le 8 avril 2025, le ministre de l’Énergie et des Mines de l’Ontario a publié une lettre (la « lettre du ministre ») demandant notamment à la Commission de l’énergie de l’Ontario et à la Société indépendante d’exploitation du...more
On April 8, 2025, the Ontario Minister of Energy and Mines issued a letter to the Ontario Energy Board and the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) requesting they apply the provincial government’s Procurement...more
President Trump's pursuit of U.S. energy dominance, coupled with Canada's response to proposed tariffs, has thrown North American energy markets into uncertainty. With diplomatic and economic tensions mounting between the two...more
MISE À JOUR : À environ 15 h (HE) le 11 mars 2025, le premier ministre de l’Ontario a convenu de suspendre les tarifs douaniers de 25 % envisagés sur les exportations d’électricité vers les États-Unis décrits ci-après afin de...more
We continue to follow the U.S.-Canada trade dispute and will update this post as required. The most recent series of events began with the White House’s March 2, 2025 announcement that, effective 12:01 a.m. EST on...more
On February 28, 2025, the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) and ISO New England, Inc. (ISO-NE) submitted proposed revisions to their respective wholesale market tariffs to the Federal Energy Regulatory...more
Early Monday, Ontario announced a potential 25 percent increase in electricity prices for three northern U.S. states, Minnesota, New York and Michigan, only to suspend the threatened surcharge after conversations with the...more
U.S. grid operators and policymakers are rushing to prepare for the Trump Administration’s threatened tariffs on imported Canadian electricity and the Canadian reaction, an unprecedented state of affairs disrupting one of the...more
President Trump has announced that his administration will be increasing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%. The announcement comes on the heels of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s imposition of a new tax on...more
Ontario’s recently re-elected premier, Doug Ford, has introduced a 25% tariff on all electricity exported from Ontario to the northern border states of New York, Michigan and Minnesota, effective March 10, 2025. The...more
On February 1, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled Imposing Duties to Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border (Canadian Tariff Order), which, inter alia, imposed a 10 percent import...more
After the pause on the 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports expired on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, all Canadian and Mexican imports (with the exception of some energy imports at a lower rate) were subject to a 25%...more
The United States has announced the imposition of new tariffs on Canadian goods, effective immediately as of March 4, 2025. These tariffs include a 25% surcharge on a wide range of products imported from Canada....more
Effective as of 12:01 a.m. EST, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the United States imposes 25 per cent tariffs on almost all goods imported from Canada. A lower tariff of 10 per cent is imposed on Canadian energy and resource products...more
President Trump’s aggressive tariff policies—10% on Chinese imports and 25% on Canadian and Mexican goods (temporarily suspended)—are disrupting global trade and taking a toll on the clean energy market. Rising Costs: Tariffs...more
Après des semaines d’incertitude, les nouveaux tarifs douaniers ont finalement été mis en place. De nombreuses entreprises nord-américaines font maintenant face à d’énormes défis. À compter du 4 mars 2025, les importations...more
For more than twenty years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), and later, the United States‑Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”), have facilitated cross-border trade and investment among the United States,...more
The Canadian infrastructure space saw significant volumes of projects announced and transacted in 2024, primarily driven by government incentivizes and the development of eligible projects through the investment tax credit...more
In his first tangible action implementing his campaign promise to impose broad tariffs, on February 1, 2025, President Trump issued three Executive Orders (the EOs) directing that across-the-board tariffs be imposed on goods...more
Saturday, February 1, 2025 may go down as the date the great Trade War began. On that date, less than two weeks following his second inauguration, President Donald J. Trump announced 25% tariffs on both Mexico and Canada...more
If you are a seller or purchaser of natural gas imported from Canada or Mexico, or exported to either country, under an NAESB Base Contract for the Purchase and Sale of Natural Gas (NAESB Contract), you should carefully...more
Effective as of Tuesday, February 4, 2025, the United States is imposing 25 per cent tariffs on almost all goods imported from Canada. A lower tariff of 10 per cent will be imposed on Canadian energy and resource products...more
Canada's troubled Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, faced growing calls to resign last week after his Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Director, Chrystia Freeland, resigned over disagreements about government spending....more