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Ontario Securities Commission welcomes Kevan Cowan as new chair

Cowan has over 30 years of experience in the capital markets industry
BY Micah Guiao 07 Dec 2022

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Appeal from certification order in bread price-fixing class action quashed

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Stay refused for mother seeking to relocate child from Milton to Sarnia

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Circumstantial evidence supports conviction when only alternatives are speculative: Ontario CA

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