The Complete Brief
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November 11, 2025
Quebec announces three appointments to Superior Court
Louis-François Asselin, Benoit Lussier and Véronique Boucher have been appointed to the Superior Court of Quebec, the Department of Justice has announced.
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November 11, 2025
Hate-mongers should not be welcome in Canada
On Sept. 19, 2025, the federal government announced that the Irish rap band Kneecap had been deemed ineligible to enter the country, saying: “The group have amplified political violence and publicly displayed support for terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.”
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November 11, 2025
The limits of biometric surveillance
A recent decision by Quebec’s privacy regulator highlights the risks that organizations face when implementing biometric surveillance systems. In 2024, Metro Inc., a Canadian retailer, announced the launch of a biometric surveillance system in some of its Quebec stores. Metro planned to build a database of facial scans of the people visiting its stores based on the footage captured by Metro’s in-store security cameras. Metro hoped to use this database to identify shoplifters to protect itself from theft.
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November 11, 2025
New trial ordered in P.E.I. adjoining property dispute
A well-known line from Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall says, “Good fences make good neighbours.” Sometimes, building a fence or wall is an overly simple solution. When neighbours take each other to court and accusations of criminal behaviour are made, even the trial can become unpleasant. It was this sort of feud that led to the Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal case R. v. Moore, 2025 PECA 6.
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November 11, 2025
Deny, deny, deny, right up to the breakdown
“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.” — Mark Twain
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November 11, 2025
CIVIL PROCEDURE - Appeals - Grounds for review - Reasonable apprehension of bias
Appeal by British Columbia Environmental Appeal Board from judicial review of its decision. The District Director for Metro Vancouver issued a detailed environmental permit with a number of restrictions and requirements following an application by GFL to operate a large composting facility in Delta. GFL and several residents of Delta filed appeals with the Board.
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November 11, 2025
AI dashcams and wearables as evidence in personal injury trials: Privacy meets proof
In recent years, technology has found its way into almost every corner of daily life, including the courtroom. From AI-powered dashcams to wearable fitness and health devices, digital data is reshaping how personal injury cases are argued and decided in Canada.
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November 10, 2025
Competition Bureau ends investigation into algorithmic pricing in rental housing market
The Competition Bureau has finished its “civil investigation” into the use of algorithmic pricing software in the rental housing market. The investigation determined that revenue management tools have “not been used widely enough by landlords to substantially harm competition.”
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November 10, 2025
Judicial vacancies hit 5%, threatening more trial delays and backlogs
Ottawa is lagging again in filling the country’s federal benches, hitting a five per cent vacancy rate on Nov. 1, 2025 — mostly in the critical trial courts of Ontario, B.C. and Quebec, which are constitutionally obliged to conduct trials within a reasonable time or face the prospect of staying criminal cases.
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November 10, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal restores cancelled covenants, rules road construction delay not abandonment
The B.C. Court of Appeal has reinstated restrictive covenants on certain lands in Kelowna B.C., ruling that a lower court erred in finding that a long-delayed roadway was “hypothetical” and that the covenants protecting its corridor had become obsolete.