June 19, 2026
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal, finding that the judge erred by delegating the determination of the fair value of shares to a chartered business valuator rather than having the court determine it.
June 19, 2026
The commentary on Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16, has run almost entirely in one direction. Damages, intake methodology, and sequencing alongside the family file: the conversation has been about how plaintiffs can use the new tort of intimate partner violence to sue their ex and claim damages.
June 19, 2026
Canada’s stricter bail rules will come into effect on July 15, 2026. The sweeping legislation (Bill C-14), the Bail and Sentencing Reform Act, received Royal Assent on June 15, 2026. Proponents of the new legislation said it would stop the “catch and release” mindset of Ontario courts. But was there a real need for reform?
June 19, 2026
Here are my picks for the top stories we published this week.
June 19, 2026
Waterstone Law has welcomed a new associate lawyer, Amrit Dhillon, to its Abbotsford, B.C., office.
June 19, 2026
James Oliver has joined Wildeboer Dellelce as an associate in its banking and financial services team in Toronto.
June 19, 2026
Mathews Dinsdale has added Zoe Aranha as an associate in its Toronto office.
June 19, 2026
I articled for the now defunct law firm of Goodman and Carr. It was a well-regarded firm in its day. Wolfe Goodman was a senior partner and a leading tax lawyer of his era. In my tax rotation, I spent considerable time with him. He made tax sound so interesting that there was even a brief moment in time that I thought I wanted to be a tax lawyer.
June 19, 2026
The Office of the Procurement Ombud (OPO) has concluded its third Procurement Solutions Forum. The forum included discussions with senior procurement leaders and federal government stakeholders on developing a “harmonized set of federal procurement rules,” which was one of the OPO’s five key recommendations to address “long-standing federal procurement issues” in its most recent report.
June 19, 2026
In an investigation report released on June 11, the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) found that the AI chatbot Grok, a feature offered to users of X, the social media platform (formerly Twitter), breached the current privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), by creating sexualized artificial images of real people, in particular women and children, without their consent.