Friday, December 19, 2025 @ 4:20 PM
Last Updated: Saturday, December 20, 2025 @ 2:48 PM
In an unusual and surprising move, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that a federal puisne judge, Justice Marie-Josée Hogue of the Quebec Court of Appeal, will become deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney general of Canada “early in the new year.” ... [read more]
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 @ 3:09 PM
The Federal Court has adjourned a certification motion in a proposed class action challenging the practice of prorating certain indexation adjustments for veterans’ benefits pending the outcome of proposed legislation that could end the class action. ... [read more]
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 @ 2:09 PM
Quebec Crown prosecutors, disenchanted by the provincial government’s unilateral decision to ignore several recommendations made by an arbitrator appointed by both parties over their normative working conditions, lost a legal battle after the Quebec Superior Court dismissed their application for judicial review. The decision capped a bleak year for the Quebec Association of Public Prosecutors for Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (APPCP). ... [read more]
Monday, December 22, 2025 @ 4:29 PM
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has permitted a vendor to retain a $611,845 deposit in a $7.6-million land sale after the buyer failed to close on time, finding that agreed extensions did not constitute a waiver of the contract’s “time is of the essence” clause. ... [read more]
Monday, December 22, 2025 @ 4:06 PM
Alberta’s top court has ruled that the provincial law society’s requirements to swear allegiance to the monarch violated a Sikh man’s religious rights under the Charter. ... [read more]
Intellectual Property
Patients relevant in pharmaceutical product trademark decision: Federal Court of Appeal
Federal judges ‘reluctantly’ take Carney gov’t to court in dispute over pay, judicial independence
