July 22, 2026
For decades, Canadian courts have struggled to find an effective remedy when police fail to meet their constitutional disclosure obligations. Adjournments reward delay. Excluding evidence may distort the truth-finding process. Allowing proceedings to remain entirely closed allows serious offenders to escape conviction. An overlooked alternative — a substantial costs award against the Crown — may ultimately prove to be the most effective means of encouraging proper police conduct while preserving the integrity of criminal trials.
July 22, 2026
Public service delivery strikes are routinely framed in popular discourse as localized, binary disputes between individual employers and their workforces. Yet, when these disruptions hit independent delivery networks, the stalled bargaining tables reflect a much broader systemic crisis.
July 22, 2026
Imagine you are a partner in a large downtown law firm being blackmailed by a new associate. Several months ago, you started an illicit relationship with another partner, communicating via email on your firm’s business account.
July 22, 2026
Appeal by Hillmond Investments Ltd. (Landlord) from a trial judgment in favour of Metro Ontario Real Estate Limited and Metro Ontario Inc. (Tenant) arising from a long term commercial lease dispute. Motion by Landlord to amend its notice of appeal to argue that the exercise of a renewal option constituted an amendment to the lease.
July 21, 2026
Canada is set to intensify trade talks with the United States after the U.S. announced plans to impose additional 50 per cent tariffs on a significant number of Canadian goods, Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement issued July 20.
July 21, 2026
Canada will be launching public consultations on its response to forced labour in global supply chains as per Bill C-35, An Act respecting the prohibition of the importation of goods produced by forced labour.
July 21, 2026
Ontario’s top court has taken the unusual step of overturning an acquittal in the case of a man who was found not guilty of intimidation for his role in the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.
July 21, 2026
British Columbia is inviting the public to share feedback on proposed legislative and procedural changes aimed at improving the natural resource appeals process administered by the Environmental Appeal Board and Forest Appeals Commission.
July 21, 2026
The B.C. Supreme Court has declined to summarily resolve a dispute over whether a resort operator can charge neighbouring resort guests to access a suspension bridge under an easement, finding that more evidence about the circumstances surrounding the easement’s creation was needed before the court could decide the issue.
July 21, 2026
Joshua D. Sutherland (Awootaninaw) and Dan Fogarty are new partners at Aird & Berlis.