The Complete Brief
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October 09, 2025
REMEDIES - Equitable remedies - Specific performance
Appeal by Nova Fish from summary trial judge’s decision. Cold Ocean agreed to sell several trout farms to Nova Fish under an Agreement of Purchase and Sale (the Agreement). The trout farms were leased on property from the provincial government.
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October 08, 2025
PM wraps Washington visit focused on trade, Arctic security
Prime Minister Mark Carney concluded a working visit to Washington, D.C. on Oct. 8 that included a White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump focused on “key priorities in trade and defence.”
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October 08, 2025
Fraser calls provinces’ demand to scrap Ottawa’s SCC arguments on notwithstanding clause ‘untenable’
Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser has pushed back against the demands of five premiers that Ottawa should drop its novel arguments at the Supreme Court that there are substantive constraints on governments’ powers to invoke the Charter’s s. 33 “notwithstanding” clause — arguments that those five provinces contend “represent a complete disavowal of the constitutional bargain that brought the Charter into being” in 1982.
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October 08, 2025
Proposed Uber Eats drip pricing class action to be arbitrated: Federal Court of Appeal
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal of a Federal Court decision that stayed a putative class action against alleged drip pricing practices by Uber Eats in favour of arbitration, agreeing with the lower court’s findings on consumer protection laws, incapability of performance and inequality of bargaining power.
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October 08, 2025
Federal Court rules port operator’s $17K liability cap applies to $6.4M claim over iron ore mix-up
The Federal Court has ruled that a port operator can rely on a $17,023 liability cap against a $6.4-million claim after it loaded about 21,000 tonnes of iron ore onto the wrong ship.
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October 08, 2025
Justice system doesn’t work if court orders become discretionary: lawyer
An Ontario court has given a warning that defendants should be wary of paying out settlement funds when facing a charging order. That was the finding by a three-judge divisional panel of the Ontario Superior Court in an action revolving around the enforcement of a charging order in a motor vehicle accident case.
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October 08, 2025
Feds introduce regulatory changes to cut red tape, support agricultural sector
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) introduced a “suite of regulatory changes” on Oct. 8 to reduce red tape and support “economic resiliency for Canada’s agricultural sector.”
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October 08, 2025
Troy McEachren joins McCarthy Tétrault’s tax group
McCarthy Tétrault has announced that Troy McEachren has joined the firm as a partner in its national tax group in Montreal.
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October 08, 2025
Woods welcomes Alexandre Gélinas as eDiscovery director
Woods has added Alexandre Gélinas as a lawyer and its director of eDiscovery.
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October 08, 2025
The Strong Borders Act and the road ahead: Charting Canada’s AML future
In part one of this series (see below for link), we traced the broad ambitions of Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act. We examined how Canada, under mounting domestic and international pressure, sought to overhaul its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) framework, repositioning itself against increasingly sophisticated networks of financial crime (Government of Canada, 2025; FATF, 2022). That first instalment highlighted the bill’s sweeping recalibration of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA), its elevation of FINTRAC into a far more muscular regulator, and its attempt to harden Canada’s borders against precursor chemicals, illicit funds and contraband.