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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Denise Bright |Daniel Chubb |Luke Stretch
[co-author: Kendall Pearce - Articling Student]In Flowers v Persist Oil and Gas Inc., 2025 ABKB 142,1 the Court of King's Bench of Alberta provides some important reminders to commercial landlords, tenants and their respective lenders regarding the growing intersection between real estate and the digital economy.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Preet Gill |Denise Bright
As detailed in our prior blog, Canadian Government (Finally) Provides Certaintyon Criminal Interest Rates, the Government of Canadaproposed amendments to lower the criminal interest rate to anannual percentage rate (APR) of 35 percent (the prior criminalinterest rate, being an effective rate of 60 percent, wasequivalent to an APR of about 48 percent).
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Denise Bright |Preet Gill
As detailed in our prior blog, Canadian Government (Finally) Provides Certainty on Criminal Interest Rates, the Government of Canada proposed amendments to lower the criminal interest rate to an annual percentage rate (APR) of 35 percent (the prior criminal interest rate, being an effective rate of 60 percent, was equivalent to an APR of about 48 percent).
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
bennettjones.com | Preet Gill |Denise Bright
As detailed in our prior blog, Canadian Government (Finally) Provides Certainty on Criminal Interest Rates, the Government of Canada proposed amendments to lower the criminal interest rate to an annual percentage rate (APR) of 35 percent (the prior criminal interest rate, being an effective rate of 60 percent, was equivalent to an APR of about 48 percent).
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Denise Bright |Alixe Cameron
There is a potentially expensive fee change on the horizon here
in Alberta that may catch lenders and borrowers with large and/or
multi-jurisdictional credit facilities unaware.This change will
affect mortgages (collateral or otherwise), debentures and trust
deeds (collectively Mortgages), plus supplemental or replacement
Mortgages, and any caveats claiming an interest under a Mortgage or
unregistered Mortgage.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Denise Bright |Preet Gill
[co-author: Will Sardo - Student-at-Law]As we have reported in prior blogs, the Government of Canada is moving forward with plans to lower the criminal interest rate to an annual percentage rate (APR) of 35 percent (the current criminal interest rate, being an effective rate of 60 percent, is equivalent to an APR of about 48 percent).
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Kelsey Meyer |Keely Cameron |Denise Bright |Sarah Aaron
In late May, the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC) denied an
application for leave to appeal a decision of the Court of Appeal
of Alberta (the ABCA), which, in turn, had denied leave to appeal
of the decision of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta (the
ABKB) in Re Mantle Materials Group, Ltd, 2023 ABKB 488
(Mantle KB).
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Sarah Aaron |Denise Bright |Keely Cameron
June 5, 2024 Sarah Aaron, Denise Bright, Keely Cameron, Kelsey Meyer Bennett Jones LLP + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In late May, the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC) denied an application for leave to appeal a decision of the Court of Appeal of Alberta (the ABCA), which, in turn, had denied leave to appeal of the decision of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta (the ABKB) in Re Mantle Materials Group, Ltd,...
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
bennettjones.com | Kelsey Meyer |Keely Cameron |Denise Bright |Sarah Aaron
In late May, the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC) denied an application for leave to appeal a decision of the Court of Appeal of Alberta (the ABCA), which, in turn, had denied leave to appeal of the decision of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta (the ABKB) in Re Mantle Materials Group, Ltd, 2023 ABKB 488 (Mantle KB).
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May 15, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Preet Gill |Denise Bright
On April 16, 2024, the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance
Minister presented the Canadian Government's 2024 budget. The
government reiterated that it was "reinforcing its efforts to
crack down on predatory lending, and moving forward with these
reforms to protect Canadians on a priority basis".
