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  • June 12, 2026

    Just cause is not a lost cause, but it is never simple

    As a mediator, I often hear employers and employees talk past each other on summary dismissal. The employer is convinced it had ironclad cause, while the employee is convinced the dismissal was unjustified. They become entrenched in their positions and stop listening.

  • June 12, 2026

    Juridogenic harm: Why Canada’s justice system must radically reimagine sexual assault proceedings

    When a survivor of sexual violence steps forward to engage with the criminal justice system, they do so under the comforting myth of state neutrality — the belief that the law exists to heal a breach, discover the truth and deliver accountability. Yet, for decades, feminist legal scholarship and the lived realities of survivors have told a radically different story.

  • June 12, 2026

    Administrative procedures ‘need not be optimal to be fair’: Alberta court

    Alberta’s highest court has ruled that the province’s public interest commissioner was within his rights to anonymize the identities of witnesses as part of its investigation into the conduct of a school superintendent, saying procedural fairness was met in the case.

  • June 12, 2026

    Appeal Court in St. Catharines shooting case rejects claims of reasonable doubt

    There was a late-night gunfight outside Karma Nightclub in St. Catharines, Ont., on Sept. 29, 2019. The Crown had to prove that Jamar Stephens was one of the shooters. It did. A jury convicted Stephens on a multi-count indictment charging him with various offences arising from the shooting.

  • June 12, 2026

    FINANCE - Taxation - Real or immovable property assessment - Methods of assessment

    Appeal by Souris Valley Lodging Inc (“Souris Valley”) against a decision of the Assessment Appeals Committee of the Saskatchewan Municipal Board (“Committee”). A 2022 assessment of two hotel properties by the Saskatchewan Assessment Management Agency (“SAMA”) used the modified cost approach which required a determination of the Replacement Cost New Less Depreciation of the improvements and the application of a market adjustment factor (“MAF”) to calculate the value that was then added to the property (“Cost Approach”).

  • June 11, 2026

    Supreme Court of Canada says it’s business as usual while judges & staff move to temporary facilities

    The Supreme Court of Canada says it will continue to provide the bar, litigants and the public with all its usual services from its historic courthouse in Ottawa while its judges and registry staff undertake a phased move to the court’s temporary facilities across the street during the months of July and August.

  • June 11, 2026

    Ontario, Pennsylvania sign trade agreement on energy, critical minerals

    Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand energy trade and infrastructure, critical minerals, manufacturing, life sciences and more.

  • June 11, 2026

    Senate passes bill to designate November as national immigration month

    The Senate has passed Bill S-215, the National Immigration Month Act, which would designate November as National Immigration Month in Canada to recognize the role of immigrants in the country’s history and development.

  • June 11, 2026

    Feds unveil sweeping social media, AI-chatbot bill aimed at online harms & enforced by fines & AMPs

    The federal Liberal government’s expansive new bill targeting online harms to children from social media and AI chatbots also takes aim at terrorism and violent extremist content, content that foments hatred and intimate content communicated without consent. Introduced in the House of Commons June 10 by Marc Miller, the minister of Canadian identity and culture, the 92-page Safe Social Media Act (Bill C-34) would enact two other statutes: the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act.

  • June 11, 2026

    xAI violated privacy law by enabling sexualized deepfakes through Grok: privacy commissioner

    Elon Musk’s xAI and social media platform X violated federal privacy law by launching Grok’s image-generation tool without adequate safeguards, which allowed users to create and share non-consensual sexualized deepfakes, Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said on June 11.

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