May 01, 2026
The federal government has appointed Robert W. Wadden and Karen E. Pritchard as judges of the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario, sitting in Cornwall and Sault Ste. Marie, respectively.
May 01, 2026
The federal government has appointed Giuseppina D’Agostino as a judge of the Federal Court.
May 01, 2026
In Canada, privilege protections are analogous but termed differently. Solicitor-client privilege safeguards confidential communications between a client and lawyer (or agents) made for obtaining or giving legal advice. Litigation privilege covers documents created predominantly for anticipated or ongoing litigation, including third-party inputs if directed toward that purpose. Both require intent to maintain confidentiality and reasonable steps to do so.
May 01, 2026
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has announced that a man has pleaded guilty in a $1.3-million investment scheme case.
May 01, 2026
For years, cybersecurity in Canada’s defence sector was largely a matter of self-declaration. That changed on April 14, 2026, when the Government of Canada officially introduced Level 1 of the Canadian Program for Cyber Security Certification (CPCSC). Mandatory requirements take effect in select defence contracts starting summer 2026. Suppliers that can’t demonstrate compliance at contract award risk losing work they’ve already won.
May 01, 2026
Appeal by Ryan from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal which found that s. 12 of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act (Act) was intra vires the federal Parliament. The Act was enacted for the purpose of setting up a statutory committee of parliamentarians to oversee Canada’s national security and intelligence apparatus (Committee).
May 01, 2026
Appeal by the appellant from a judgment of the Quebec Court of Appeal which set aside a judgment dismissing an application for judicial review. The Act to interrupt the electoral division delimitation process (ATI) has the effect of interrupting the process relating to the delimitation of Quebec’s electoral divisions made by the Commission de la représentation after every second general election.
May 01, 2026
British Columbia will be changing the Controlled Alien Species Regulation (CASR) under its Wildlife Act to ban the “breeding, transport and future ownership of all non-native and non-domestic cats, effective Friday, May 1, 2026.”
May 01, 2026
Newly qualified lawyers are not known for being mature, confident, well-rounded and psychologically sound. And why should we expect them to be? Most of them are young, having just emerged from years of student life. Few have had a significant prior career. They have likely graduated, with substantial debt, from schools that have not adequately trained them to practise law.
May 01, 2026
Heralding a significant shift in the Canadian legal landscape, the British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected the legal profession’s constitutional challenge to the B.C. Legal Professions Act — legislation that would end more than 150 years of lawyer self-governance and self-regulation by benchers elected from the provincial bar.