On March 31, 2020 Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (BIP.UN) announced the completion of a unit split corporate event resulting in each unitholder of BIP.UN on record as of March 20, 2020 receiving 1 shares of Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation (BIPC) for every 9 units of BIP.UN.  In addition, a cash payment was made in lieu of […]

In 2018 Enbridge Inc. (ENB) completed its plan to acquire all outstanding shares of Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. (ENF).  Under the arrangement, ENF shareholders received: 0.7350 shares of ENB, and a cash payment of $0.45 for each share of ENF held on November 15, 2018.  An ENF shareholder also received an accrued ENF dividend […]

The Canada Revenue Agency treats the taxation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency trading in a similar fashion to trading commodities or foreign currency.  When trading Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies on capital account, your adjusted cost base must be tracked in order to calculate capital gains and losses. This article will looks at the case for Canadians where trading […]

Patient Home Monitoring (trading under symbol PHM on the TSX Venture exchange) recently completed a spin-off where each shareholder of PHM received 1 new share of PHM and 1/10th of a share of VieMed (trading under symbol VMD on the TSX Venture exchange) for every common share owned, effective December 22, 2017. PHM released a […]