Who was sanctioned, and for what?

In March 2024, a CO2 hose on a vacuum mixer ruptured in the deli area of the plant in Brampton; around 16,000 pounds of carbon dioxide escaped and one worker suffered life-threatening injuries. There was no CO2 sensor with an alarm. Following a guilty plea, a fine of CA$500,000 plus a 25 % victim fine surcharge.

Authority / court

Provincial Offences Court Brampton (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

Section 25(2)(h) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Food and agriculture

Mitigating circumstances

Guilty plea; permanently installed CO2 sensor after the incident.

Published

27 Aug 2026

Original amount 500,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Aug 2026.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

At the warehouse and distribution centre in Listowel (around 130 employees at the site), a worker fell around 1.2 m while climbing down a ladder at high-bay racking. He had not been adequately informed, instructed and supervised on the safe use of ladders. Fine of CA$70,000 plus victim fine surcharge.

Authority / court

Provincial Offences Court Stratford (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

Sections 25(2)(a), 66(1) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Mitigating circumstances

Guilty plea.

Published

8 Jul 2026

Original amount 70,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Jun 2026.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

In the teaching hospital's virology laboratory, the lid of a centrifuge fell on an employee who had to hold it open by hand because of a defective gas spring; she was seriously injured. Maintenance reports from 2023 and 2024 had already called for the spring to be replaced. Fine of CA$65,000 plus victim fine surcharge.

Authority / court

Provincial Offences Court Hamilton (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

Section 25(1)(b) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Mitigating circumstances

Guilty plea; repair two days after the accident.

Published

21 Jul 2026

Original amount 65,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Jun 2026.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

Following complaints, the labour inspectorate found, among other things, outstanding minimum wages at the temporary staffing agency in Leamington; an audit for 2022 showed that hundreds of employees were owed a total of CA$234,212 in regular wages, public holiday pay and vacation pay. The company did not comply with the 2023 orders to pay; in proceedings held in its absence, the court imposed CA$100,000 on the company (plus victim fine surcharge).

Authority / court

Provincial Offences Court Windsor (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work

Legal basis

Employment Standards Act, 2000 (Ontario), ss. 103(8), 106, 132, 136

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Liability of senior managers

Measures against individuals are not reported here.

Published

3 Jun 2026

Original amount 100,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Apr 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link

The operator of alternative trading systems passed on confidential order and trading information from its fixed income and equity platforms to unauthorised employees, lacked adequate safeguards and was initially not forthcoming with the regulator. Sanctions: administrative penalty of 600,000 CAD, 75,000 CAD in costs, a reprimand and an external review.

Authority / court

Capital Markets Tribunal (Ontario) auf Antrag der Ontario Securities Commission

Area of law

Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements

Legal basis

National Instrument 21-101, s. 5.10(1)-(3); Securities Act (Ontario) ss. 127(1), 127.1

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Mitigating circumstances

Cooperation, self-report, no prior record

Original amount 600,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 15 Apr 2026.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

Following the tragedy at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival in 2025, 36 employees of three health authorities accessed patient data of 16 admitted persons without authorisation in 71 instances. Those affected were not informed without undue delay; the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPC BC) made nine recommendations, including automated access monitoring and deterrent disciplinary measures.

Authority / court

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPC BC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) BC, s. 25.1

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

Appropriate safeguards were in place; the authorities responded quickly and accepted all recommendations.

Published

18 Feb 2026

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

From April to October 2021 the Office de la protection du consommateur (OPC, Quebec's consumer protection office) checked the prices of seven advertised products in flyers, online and in three stores in the greater Montréal area: the regular prices cited as the reference were actually charged in only a very small share of sales. Canadian Tire pleaded guilty, for five of the products, to stating false reference prices contrary to s. 225(b) of the Loi sur la protection du consommateur (LPC, Quebec Consumer Protection Act) and must pay fines totalling CAD 1,287,550 including costs on 74 counts.

Authority / court

Gericht in Montréal (Ermittlung: Office de la protection du consommateur (OPC); Anklage: Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales (DPCP))

Area of law

Consumer protection and online retail · Misleading advertising and pricing

Legal basis

Loi sur la protection du consommateur (RLRQ c. P-40.1), Art. 225 b)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Employees

10,000 or more

Published

6 Feb 2026

Original amount 1,287,550 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 6 Feb 2026.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The telecoms provider pleaded guilty to using a prohibited clause allowing unilateral amendment of contracts without the specific conditions required by law, and to omitting mandatory information from distance contracts for successive services, such as a detailed description of the services, the price and description of devices offered as a premium, usage restrictions and geographical limits. Fines totalling CAD 210,700 including costs were imposed on 50 counts; the offences dated from 2012 and 2013.

Authority / court

Gericht in Montréal (Ermittlung: Office de la protection du consommateur (OPC); Anklage: Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales (DPCP))

Area of law

Consumer protection and online retail · Information duties in online retail

Legal basis

Loi sur la protection du consommateur (RLRQ c. P-40.1), Art. 11.2 und 214.2

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Published

6 Feb 2026

Original amount 210,700 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 15 Dec 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In February 2024 a flytable was being moved by tower crane at the Oakridge Park construction site; as it was pushed out it accelerated out of the building, fell and fatally struck a worker. WorkSafeBC found that EllisDon, as prime contractor, had not regularly reviewed the subcontractor's safe work procedures, had not confirmed that a risk assessment had been carried out, had not classed the lift as critical, had not ensured written lift plans, had not controlled the exclusion zone on the ground and had not coordinated the health and safety activities of the employers involved. It imposed an administrative penalty of CAD 514,831.53.

Authority / court

WorkSafeBC (Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

Arbeitsschutzvorschriften von British Columbia, insbesondere Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (OHSR) – Pflichten des Hauptauftragnehmers (prime contractor) und Anforderungen an kritische Kranhübe; Verwaltungsstrafe (administrative penalty) von WorkSafeBC

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Construction and real estate

Published

12 Dec 2025

Original amount 514,831.53 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Dec 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In February 2024 the formwork contractor was moving a flytable by tower crane at the Oakridge Park construction site when it fell out of the building and fatally struck a worker. WorkSafeBC found, among other things, missing written lift plans for critical lifts, inadequate procedures for corner flytables, a lack of risk assessments and inspections, loads being passed over people and insufficient instruction, training and supervision of workers, and imposed an administrative penalty of CAD 112,624.66.

Authority / court

WorkSafeBC (Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

Arbeitsschutzvorschriften von British Columbia, insbesondere Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (OHSR) – Hebepläne, Schalungsarbeiten, Unterweisung und Aufsicht; Verwaltungsstrafe (administrative penalty) von WorkSafeBC

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Construction and real estate

Published

12 Dec 2025

Original amount 112,624.66 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Dec 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In 2020 the company rented two acres of land in Essa Township, presented to the owners as a site for receiving wood to be turned into landscaping material; from April to August 2020, however, hundreds of truckloads of construction and demolition waste were dumped there, and by April 2023 there was still no confirmation that the ordered clean-up had taken place. The court convicted the company under the Environmental Protection Act of depositing waste at an unapproved site and fined it CAD 500,000 plus a victim fine surcharge of CAD 125,000. Measures against individuals are not set out here.

Authority / court

Gericht in Barrie (Ermittlung und Anklage: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks)

Area of law

Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances

Legal basis

Environmental Protection Act (Ontario), RSO 1990, c E.19 – Ablagerung von Abfällen auf einem nicht zugelassenen Abfallstandort

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Liability of senior managers

Measures against individuals are not set out here.

Published

11 Feb 2026

Original amount 500,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Aug 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

On 22 February 2018 the then start-up airline told the Canada Transportation Agency that, after a letter of intent for two leased aircraft had been terminated, the start of flight operations would slip to the end of 2018, but it did not publish this material change until 13 March 2018. In its settlement with the BCSC the company admitted breaching the duty of immediate disclosure and pays CAD 100,000 as a joint payment. Measures against individuals are not set out here.

Authority / court

British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC), Executive Director (Vergleich)

Area of law

Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations

Legal basis

Securities Act (British Columbia), RSBC 1996, c. 418, s. 85 (unverzügliche Offenlegung wesentlicher Änderungen) und s. 168.2(1)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Transport, logistics and shipping

Liability of senior managers

Measures against individuals are not set out here.

Published

22 Aug 2025

Original amount 100,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Aug 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

When restarting a hardening furnace (hydrogen and oil quench bath) that had been shut down for weeks, residual vapours ignited because too much time elapsed between the nitrogen purge and ignition; two workers were seriously injured. Only one was wearing flame-resistant clothing; the other had not been provided with any. Fine of CA$144,000 plus victim fine surcharge.

Authority / court

Ontario Court of Justice Brampton (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

Section 25(2)(h) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Steel and metals

Mitigating circumstances

Guilty plea.

Published

21 Aug 2025

Original amount 144,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 24 Jul 2025.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

An ASC panel had previously found that RTAX illegally distributed securities and, between 2016 and 2019, defrauded investors of at least CAD 462,421: the money was supposed to go into investments in or loans to third parties but was largely used for personal purposes, unrelated debts and payments to other investors. In its sanctions decision the panel ordered an administrative penalty of CAD 175,000; disgorgement of the CAD 462,421 obtained and costs of CAD 81,755 are separate and are not included in the amount shown. RTAX must permanently cease trading in securities. Measures against individuals are not set out here.

Authority / court

Alberta Securities Commission (ASC), Hearing Panel

Area of law

Capital markets and financial supervision · Market abuse and insider dealing

Legal basis

Securities Act (Alberta), RSA 2000, c. S-4, s. 110(1) (Vertrieb ohne Prospekt) und s. 93(1)(b) (Betrug); Sanktionen nach s. 198 (u. a. s. 198(1)(i) Herausgabe), s. 199 (Verwaltungsstrafe) und s. 202 (Kosten)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Liability of senior managers

Measures against individuals are not set out here.

Published

14 Jul 2025

Original amount 175,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 9 Jul 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In 2023, two employees of the forge in Niagara Falls removed a spacer from a press for the first time; instead of the guide bolts prescribed in the manual, they used makeshift steel bolts and left the piston assembly, weighing around 1.25 t, hanging from the crane. The load swung out, and a worker fell to the ground with it and died. The company had not informed the employees of the dangers of deviating from the operating manual; fine of CA$220,000 plus victim fine surcharge.

Authority / court

Provincial Offences Court Welland (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

Section 25(2)(d) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Steel and metals

Mitigating circumstances

Guilty plea.

Published

20 Jun 2025

Original amount 220,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 May 2025.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

In 2023 the wholesale distributor of pipes and valves installed a camera system in all its delivery vehicles that also films the driver's cab from engine start until 20 minutes after the engine is switched off and uses artificial intelligence to detect events such as phone use, not wearing a seatbelt or smoking. The Commission d'accès à l'information (CAI, Quebec's access to information and privacy commission) found the necessity of the collection not established because the intrusion into drivers' privacy had not been sufficiently minimised, and ordered the company to limit in-cab recording to a few seconds before and after an incident or to stop it, to stop recording once the engine is off and to destroy any recordings going beyond that.

Authority / court

Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (CAI), section de surveillance

Area of law

Data protection · Employee data

Legal basis

Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels dans le secteur privé (RLRQ c. P-39.1), Art. 5 (Notwendigkeit der Erhebung) und Art. 83

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In 2017 the Vancouver payment processing company sold its own crypto coin to about 500 investors without a prospectus, raising CAD 3,341,040.91; in doing so it referred to an independent non-profit organisation that did not exist, announced sold-out tranches that had not sold out and cited inflated monthly revenue. It also operated an unrecognised exchange for the coin. Under its settlement with the BCSC, NetCents was permanently barred from trading in securities and must pay the proceeds, frozen since 2018, together with interest to the Commission. The amount of CAD 3,341,040.91 is a disgorgement of the proceeds, not an administrative penalty.

Authority / court

British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC), Executive Director (Vergleich und Anordnung)

Area of law

Capital markets and financial supervision · Disclosure and reporting obligations

Legal basis

Securities Act (British Columbia), RSBC 1996, c. 418, s. 61 (Prospektpflicht), s. 50(1)(d) (Falschangaben), s. 25 (nicht anerkannte Börse); Anordnungen nach s. 161(1)(b), (d) und (g)

Action

Disgorgement of profits

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Repeat case

no

Mitigating circumstances

The directors and officers at the time have all left the company; the settlement made a hearing unnecessary.

Published

16 Apr 2025

Original amount 3,341,040.91 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 16 Apr 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The college failed to pay 14 employees wages of almost CA$185,000 and ignored the labour inspectorate's orders to pay from 2019/2020. The court imposed CA$270,000 on the company, in addition to the outstanding wages.

Authority / court

Provincial Offences Court Toronto (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work

Legal basis

Employment Standards Act, 2000 (Ontario), ss. 103(8), 106, 132, 136

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Liability of senior managers

Measures against individuals are not reported here.

Published

28 May 2025

Original amount 270,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Mar 2025.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 3 · Direct link

In May 2023 all rainbow trout died in a toxicity test on the effluent of the pulp mill, which is discharged via a creek into Lake Superior; in the same month the mill also exceeded the limit for total reduced sulphur (TRS) in its air emissions four times. The court convicted the company of two offences under the Environmental Protection Act and fined it CAD 525,000 plus a victim fine surcharge of CAD 131,250.

Authority / court

Gericht in Thunder Bay (Ermittlung und Anklage: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks)

Area of law

Environment and sustainability · Emissions and permits

Legal basis

Environmental Protection Act (Ontario), RSO 1990, c E.19 – Abwasserqualität nach der Umweltgenehmigung (Environmental Compliance Approval) und Industriestandard für TRS-Emissionen

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Manufacturing and mechanical engineering

Mitigating circumstances

According to the ministry, the company reported the test result and each TRS exceedance as required, immediately investigated the causes of the exceedances and submitted an abatement plan; weekly follow-up tests of the effluent showed no further failures.

Published

14 Jul 2025

Original amount 525,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 14 Mar 2025.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In 2024 Metro notified the Commission d'accès à l'information (CAI, Quebec's access to information and privacy commission) of a pilot project in which people entering stores of the Metro, Super C and Jean Coutu banners would be matched by facial recognition, using the cameras at entrances and exits, against a biometric database; the database was to hold people involved in shoplifting or fraud incidents that led to police intervention. The CAI treated this as identity verification by means of biometric characteristics, which under s. 44 of the LCCJTI (Quebec Act to establish a legal framework for information technology) requires the express consent of the persons concerned, and prohibited putting the database into service. The decision is being challenged before the Court of Québec. The decision is not final.

Authority / court

Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (CAI), section de surveillance

Area of law

Data protection · Video surveillance

Legal basis

Loi concernant le cadre juridique des technologies de l'information (RLRQ c. C-1.1), Art. 44 und 45; Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels dans le secteur privé (RLRQ c. P-39.1), Art. 83

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

under appeal

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Employees

10,000 or more

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link