June 23, 2026
B.C. is launching a province-wide program aimed at disrupting street disorder and retail crime. The province is investing $16 million over two years in the Chronic Property Offending Intervention Initiative, which will focus on people involved in repeat offences, such as theft, shoplifting, vandalism and street disorder.
June 23, 2026
On June 2, the Ontario legislature rose for its summer recess and will not return until late October. Twenty-one weeks. For most people, that is a scheduling note. For the clients I represent in family court, it means the legal framework that is already failing them will continue to fail them, unreformed, for the rest of the year.
June 23, 2026
Notwithstanding the multitude of admonishments that courts in several jurisdictions have given to lawyers about the use of non-existent cases or hallucinated quotations from real cases to support their positions, lawyers continue to use generative artificial intelligence to conduct legal research without checking and verifying its output.
June 23, 2026
The federal government is inviting Canadians and partners in the heritage sector, including those involved in Canadian identity and culture, to take part in consultations on the future of official languages, particularly French.
June 23, 2026
On May 14, 2026, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a notice and request for comment in respect of a suite of proposed amendments to the issuer bid, take-over bid and beneficial ownership reporting regimes in Canada, marking the most significant set of changes in more than a decade.
June 23, 2026
For years, the conversation surrounding mental health in the Canadian legal profession operated under a false assumption: that stress is an equal-opportunity employer. The prevailing narrative suggested that because the practice of law is inherently demanding, every practitioner faces identical hurdles, and therefore, the same prescription of individual “resilience” should suffice to keep teams high-performing and healthy.
June 23, 2026
“What do you call a well-rested lawyer?” “The defendant.” I recently experimented with AI to determine whether it could tell me a legal joke as sort of demonstrated above. It succeeded to a certain extent, but more on that later.
June 23, 2026
Appeal by appellant S.M. against his convictions for sexual assault and assault; cross-appeal by the Crown on the sentence imposed. The complainant alleged that throughout the parties’ marriage there were numerous incidents of non-consensual sexual activity and assaults.
June 22, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aiming to strengthen collaboration and economic opportunities in sectors including energy, critical minerals, nuclear technology, mobility, automotive and electric-vehicle manufacturing, aerospace, agri-food and life sciences.
June 22, 2026
On June 22, the Competition Bureau announced it has obtained “court orders to advance its investigation into Empire Company Limited’s use of property controls in Canada.”