The latest edition of our newsletter is out. In this issue, you will find information and tips including:
You can view the newsletter HERE.
If you or someone in your organization is new to managing a public company, you might be interested in attending the next session of the TMX Learning Academy’s two-day workshop Managing a Public Company. The topics to be covered include:
The sessions are being offered in Calgary and Vancouver in June and September respectively and you can find more information and register HERE.
The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) is hosting a roundtable to discuss how to reduce unnecessary rules and processes while continuing to protect investors. In our previous post, we mentioned that you would be able to attend by webinar or teleconference and registration for those options are now available HERE.
The Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Canada has published Enhancing Management’s Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) which is a summary document providing guidance to companies who want to explore going beyond what is necessary to satisfy existing regulatory requirements. It includes ideas and concepts intended to maximize the usefulness of MD&A disclosure including the following six principals:
Principle 1: Through the Eyes of Management
Principle 2: Integration with Financial Statements
Principle 3: Completeness and Materiality
Principle 4: Forward-Looking Orientation
Principle 5: Strategic Perspective
Principle 6: Usefulness
If your team is considering enhancing its MD&A disclosure or if you are just curious about the principals addressed in this guidance you can download your copy HERE.
The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) is hosting a roundtable to discuss how to reduce unnecessary rules and processes while continuing to protect investors. The in-person registration link for the March 27th session is now live and can be found HERE. Registration for the webcast and teleconference will be open on March 20th – we’ll be sure to post that information here on our blog so those outside of the Toronto area can attend as well.
Deloitte has posted to their website the 2019 edition of Directors’ Alert, “Taking the Long-Term View” which highlights how boards can apply a long-term lens to their oversight role in an age of disruption and uncertainty including:
You can download the complete document HERE.
The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) has posted the video presentation Hot Topics in Continuous Disclosure: What SME Issuers Need to Know to their website. This presentation covers a variety of continuous disclosure topics, including management’s discussion and analysis (“MDA”) issues, mergers and acquisitions matters (e.g., related party transactions), reducing regulatory burden initiatives affecting continuous disclosure, whistleblowing and more.
This presentation will be useful to you if you are a public company CFO, in-house or external legal counsel, an advisor to public companies or if you assist in preparing the financial statements and MD&A.
You can play the archived presentation HERE.
While this bulletin will likely only pertain to the cannabis sector, it is the first time we’ve seen the lottery process for a stock symbol, so we wanted to share it for those who may be interested in applying for it. The “POT” stock symbol becomes available for reservation and usage on February 1, 2019, and due to significant interest in acquiring the symbol the TSX Venture Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, Canadian Securities Exchange, and the Aequitas NEO Exchange are working together to host a lottery to award the symbol to an issuer.
To participate in the lottery process, eligible participants must notify the Exchange upon which they are currently listed or seeking to be listed, of the intent to participate in the lottery process later than 5:00p.m. ET on January 29, 2019. There are no fees payable to participate in the lottery process.
You can find the Canadian Securities Exchange bulletin HERE, The TSXV Corporate Finance Bulletin HERE and the TSX Staff Notice HERE.
The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) will host a session in Calgary on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, which will highlight information from both the 2018 Corporate Finance Disclosure Report and the 2018 Oil and Gas Report among other relevant topics. For those unable to attend the sessions, you can participate via webcast. Further information and registration can be found HERE.
You can view the 2018 Corporate Finance Disclosure Report HERE.
You can view the 2018 Oil & Gas Report HERE.
The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has published its 2018 Oil & Gas Review Report (the Report). The Report provides a review of disclosure for compliance with securities regulations, specifically NI 51-101 and related forms and outlines recurring disclosure deficiencies and contains other valuable information for reporting issuers.
You can download the report HERE.
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