May 12, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has quashed an appeal arising from a court-supervised sale process under the Ontario Business Corporations Act, holding that the order was interlocutory and therefore appealable only to the Divisional Court with leave.
May 12, 2026
Ontario nurses have launched a constitutional challenge of a decades-old statute that prohibits them from taking job action. The lawsuit from the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), which represents more than 68,000 nurses and health care professionals, aims to strike down the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act (HLDAA).
May 12, 2026
Family court cases are quite varied. Some involve straight couples. Some same-sex. Some married. Some common law. Some no children. Some blended families. Some complex or foreign assets. More recently, the asset being debated in court is the family pet, such as a cat or dog.
May 12, 2026
Counsel and judges must be alive to the elements that must be met for the criminal defence of provocation, says the lawyer for a former police officer who killed an extramarital lover following a toxic and violent same-sex affair.
May 12, 2026
Canada has signalled a more coordinated approach to digital-asset regulation with a proposed framework for stablecoins, introduced through Budget 2025 and enabling legislation. The proposal would replace Canada’s current mix of requirements with a single federal regime for fiat-backed stablecoins.
May 12, 2026
The federal government has named Jeffrey W. Locke, associate counsel at Stewart McDannold Stuart, a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Victoria.
May 12, 2026
McCarthy Tétrault has added Terri-Lee Oleniuk as a partner in its business law group in Calgary.
May 12, 2026
In January 2025, we discussed the Federal Court’s decision in Auberge & Spa Le Nordik Inc. v. Therme Development (CY) Ltd., 2024 FC 1765. In this case, the applicant had sought to strike specific services from the registrations for THERME, THERME GROUP, THERME WOMANS HEAD LOGO and THERME WOMAN LOGO owned by Therme Development (CY) Ltd. (TD), mainly related to health spa resort services.
May 12, 2026
The choice in the expression “Fear has two meanings: Forget everything and run, or face everything and rise” could underpin two different approaches taken by the Northwest Territories Court of Appeal in assessing a dangerous driving charge resulting in a death.
May 12, 2026
An American poet and critic named James Russell Lowell once said, “The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” He forgot someone: Big Law lawyers.