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February 26, 2025
Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association calls for key auto insurance changes amid election clamour
In the run-up to Ontario’s Feb. 27 election this week, the organization that represents more than 1,300 legal professionals in the personal injury sector has been campaigning to raise awareness about issues with the province’s auto insurance system that it argues are unfair to accident victims and the personal injury bar.
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February 26, 2025
Women & 2SLGBTQI+ applicants came out ahead as ‘highly recommended’ for federal benches in 2023-2024
Asserting his new administration is “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued controversial executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion policies and hiring at the federal level in America. But in Canada, the most recent demographic statistics on federal judicial appointments and the professional competence and character assessments made by the Trudeau government’s non-partisan judicial advisory committees (JACs) indicate that diversity has gone hand in hand with “merit.”
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February 24, 2025
Federal Court of Appeal allows judicial review of telework provision for Library of Parliament
The Federal Court of Appeal has allowed a judicial review in part relating to telework and remote work provisions in an interest arbitral award given to the Library of Parliament.
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February 14, 2025
Unifor members win ‘historic’ $15 million arbitration award in severance pay dispute
Unifor has announced it has won what it calls a “historic arbitration award” of about $15 million for 200 of its union members who worked at Wingham, Ont.-based automotive exhaust manufacturer Wescast Industries. The union and the company were involved in a nearly two-year dispute regarding severance and termination pay.
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February 06, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal finds apprehension of bias nullified NAFTA tribunal decision
The Ontario Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal in an international trade dispute between Mexico and a U.S.-based motorcycle company that concerned arbitral procedural fairness, finding that apprehension of bias nullified a tribunal decision dismissing a potential $2.7 billion claim.
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January 24, 2025
Exclusive: SCC’s Karakatsanis J. says job is ‘so extraordinary, it’s hard to think about doing anything else’
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Andromache Karakatsanis has seen many changes at the court since she was appointed in 2011 but its recent historic transformation into a fully bilingual female-majority court is “fantastic,” she says.
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January 06, 2025
Government bills die on order paper as Parliament prorogues, Justin Trudeau announces departure as PM
After more than nine years as Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau announced that Parliament is prorogued until March 24, 2025, and that he will step down as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada once his successor has been chosen “through a robust nationwide competitive process.”
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December 13, 2024
Federal government intervenes to end postal strike as early as next week
In what one labour lawyer calls a significant challenge to legal norms, the federal government has announced that the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) will intervene to potentially bring an end to a strike by 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) as early as next week.
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December 12, 2024
Supreme Court denies leave to appeal stay of Google ad price-fixing class action
The Supreme Court of Canada has declined leave to appeal a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that stayed in favour of arbitration a proposed class action against Google over allegations that it conspired with Apple to artificially inflate the price of Google search ads.
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December 02, 2024
2 judicial appointments announced in Newfoundland and Labrador
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani announced the appointment of Glen L.C. Noel as a judge of the Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador and of Dean A. Porter as a judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, a Nov. 29 news release announced.