Business
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September 17, 2025
CBA offers Parliament ‘better way’ forward to reform beleaguered immigration and refugee system
As parliamentary debate resumed yesterday over the Liberal government’s proposed ad hoc fixes for Canada’s creaky immigration and refugee system, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is offering legislators a detailed roadmap for wholesale modernization that charts an effective, fair and constitutionally sound way forward, members of the immigration bar say.
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September 17, 2025
Ford urges Carney to maintain Chinese EV tariffs to protect auto jobs, investments
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Ottawa to maintain a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling it critical to a future trade deal with the U.S. and to the auto sector.
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September 17, 2025
Proposed settlement of $2.7M reached in vehicle transportation price-fixing class actions
A proposed $2.7-million class action settlement has been reached in Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario lawsuits with two companies that were in the business of offering vehicle carrier services between certain ports.
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September 17, 2025
B.C. court orders redetermination of Uber wheelchair accessibility dispute
The B.C. Supreme Court has set aside a ruling that Uber discriminated against a wheelchair user by failing to offer wheelchair accessible rides in the Lower Mainland region of B.C.
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September 17, 2025
Court finds triable issue regarding promissory note of $300K loan return
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has found there is a triable issue regarding the repayment of a $300,000 loan and its interest due to non-compliant wording of a promissory note.
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September 17, 2025
Kate Costin named partner at Aird & Berlis
Aird & Berlis has a new partner: Kate Costin. According to a statement from the firm, Costin has joined its litigation and construction groups.
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September 17, 2025
The future of estate law: Human AI prompts for the protection of creative legacies
“Non omnis moriar” (Not all of me will die) — Charles Jennens (1773)
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September 17, 2025
Ontario seeking to expand scopes of practice for regulated health professionals
The Government of Ontario is consulting health care professionals as it plans to expand the scopes of practice for optometrists, psychologists and physiotherapists.
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September 17, 2025
Joseph Hillier to lead iGaming Ontario
According to a statement from the board of directors of iGaming Ontario, Joseph Hillier is the organization’s new president and chief executive officer, effective Sept. 8, 2025.
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September 17, 2025
Business succession: Team sports in the legal profession
If every family is dysfunctional, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then to fix them, we need to have more than one tool available. And if the type of thinking that fixes problems is different than the type of thinking which created them, then to work with families on business succession we need to look for solutions in places that the families have not considered.