In this issue - #103 September 28, 2007

We are pleased to announce that Steven Dvorak has joined our firm.

If you are planning to retire within the next 10 years or
have just recently retired, there are 4 essential strategies
our team of experts want to share with you.

Lenders who rely on security instruments (including such instruments as share certificates, commercial paper and money market accounts) as loan collateral must consider the effects of recent amendments to the Personal Property Security Act (“PPSA”), or risk impairing their priority position over such assets.

The federal and provincial governments have announced significant changes to the temporary foreign workers program, aimed at streamlining the process for employers.

In a recent Salary.com and AOL survey, the impact on employers of their employees spending time was estimated.  The results (which pertain specifically to the United States) are nothing less than shocking

H.R., also known as Human Resources or Human Resources Management is the activity of managing current and future staff. HR is often referred to as the dreaded function that deals with the “touchy feely” people stuff.

From the “weird things doctors remove from patients” category comes a story from Berlin, Germany.

Having celebrated Labour Day recently with parades and picnics, it is relevant, and productive, to consider what your company is doing to keep employees committed to their work.

There just doesn’t seem to be any end to weird stories involving schools and teachers.

Do current and prospective employees covet being a part of your team?

In a recent edition of his weekly column, “Legal Ease”, which appears nationally in a variety of print and electronic media, Robert Smithson addressed when a prior criminal record can, and can’t, be considered by an employer in hiring and firing an employee.

A man in a chicken suit. A Nicole Brown Simpson look-alike. A judge with a goatee and a long ponytail.

Probate fees of 1.4% of the gross value of assets located within British Columbia and passing through an estate in British Columbia are payable to the BC government at the time an estate is probated.

Consumers are one step closer to burning digital movies onto DVD.

The Canada Revenue Agency has won a Federal Court order requiring eBay Canada Ltd. to turn over the names,
addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all high-volume sellers on the popular website.

Two Supreme Court of Canada decisions released in the spring of 2007 addressed the issue of using joint tenancies with rights of survivorship.
 

Service exports often appear more complex than product exports to potential partners, such as banks or other investors.

An interesting story about a man arrested for refusing to show a drivers license to an officer when not driving (and he was the one that called the police)