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- 143Ontario Annual Return: Who Files, When and How on the OBRCross-Border ComplianceWhich corporations must file the Ontario annual return, when it is due, how to file it with a company key, and what happens to a corporation that does not.
- 142Termination Without Cause in Ontario: An Employer's GuideCross-Border ComplianceHow an Ontario employer ends employment without cause: ESA notice and termination pay, severance, common-law notice, the letter, and the deadlines after the last day.
- 141Import Export Permit Canada: When You Need One and How to ApplyCross-Border ComplianceWhen Canada requires an export or import permit, how exports to the United States are treated, who can apply, and what happens if a business ships without one.
- 140Articles of Amendment Ontario: How to Change Your CorporationBusiness and Startup LawHow an Ontario corporation changes its name, shares or board: who must approve, class votes and dissent rights, filing Form 5261, the fee and what to update after.
- 139Articles of Incorporation Ontario: Contents, Shares and ChangesBusiness and Startup LawWhat Ontario articles of incorporation contain, how to set share classes and transfer restrictions, who can be a director, and which later changes need an amendment.
- 138E-2 Visa Franchise: How a Franchise Meets the E-2 Investor RulesE-2 Visa for Canadian InvestorsHow a US franchise unit fits the E-2 investment, marginality and control rules, which franchise costs count, and when to sign and fund the deal.
- 137Extra-Provincial Registration in Ontario: What Your Corporation Must FileBusiness and Startup LawA corporation that was not created under an Ontario statute, but that starts doing business in Ontario, walks into a filing regime that catches it whether it planned for Ontario or not.
- 136L-1A Visa to Green Card: The EB-1C Route, Costs and Real TimelinesUS Immigration from CanadaMost Canadian managers who ask about the L-1A visa to green card route have already been told the short version: file an EB-1C, skip the labour certification, done.
- 135Canada Sanctions List: What Your Business Must Screen and ReportCross-Border ComplianceMost companies that ask about the Canada sanctions list are really asking a narrower question: is the other side a person we are allowed to deal with?
- 134Nuans Canada: When Your Corporation Needs a Name Search ReportBusiness and Startup LawWhich Canadian jurisdictions require a Nuans name search report, how Ontario's 90-day rule works, and what the searches cost in 2026.
- 133Fraud Charges in Canada: What Business Owners and Executives FaceWhite Collar DefenseA production order arrives at your bank. A former controller has been interviewed. A regulator asks for three years of invoices and will not say why. Long before anyone is arrested, a Canadian fraud investigation is alre…
- 132Doing Business in Canada: What a US Company Actually TriggersBusiness and Startup LawMost US companies start selling into Canada long before anyone asks a legal question. Orders arrive, a salesperson flies to Toronto, a contractor gets hired in Mississauga, and the first real question surfaces only when …