The Complete Brief
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April 29, 2025
Should Canada increase immigration enforcement?
Although Canada is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, it has been referred to as the “lazy eye” due to its lax and disorganized approach to screening individuals. Canada should consider adopting U.S.-style compliance policies.
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April 29, 2025
Ontario Trial Lawyers Association concerned about pace, recommendations of civil rules review
The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) is raising alarm bells about a recent report from a task force recommending a sweeping overhaul of the province’s civil rules, with the organization’s president-elect saying many of the recommendations and the pace of the consultation process itself are problematic.
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April 29, 2025
Navigating workplace mental health concerns during a trade war
In these uncertain economic times, more people may be inclined to ignore mental health issues and continue to work for fear of losing their jobs. That can be a mistake.
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April 29, 2025
Close relationship: A novel approach to rebutting presumption of resulting trust
It is well-established in Canada that equity presumes bargains, not gifts. The Supreme Court of Canada’s seminal decision in Pecore v. Pecore, 2007 SCC 17 confirms that this principle even extends to gratuitous property transfers from parents to their own adult children.
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April 29, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal clarifies interpretation of a ‘continuous act or omission’
In the recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision of Huether v. Sharpe, [2025] O.J. No. 802, the court overturned the lower court’s ruling and clarified the interpretation of a “continuous act or omission” under s. 15(6)(a) of the Limitations Act. This section provides an exception to the 15-year ultimate limitation period contained in s. 15(2).
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April 29, 2025
The strange case of Lawrence Harvey Zeiger
Lawrence Harvey Zeiger was a nice Jewish boy, born in 1933 to Eastern European immigrants who ran a bar and grill in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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April 28, 2025
Canadian International Trade Tribunal to probe steel wire dumping allegations
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has initiated a preliminary injury inquiry into allegations that certain carbon or alloy steel wire originating in a number of countries including China, Taiwan, India and Italy are being sold in Canada at unfair prices.
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April 28, 2025
Court rejects minority shareholder’s veto claim after bedroom breakdown leads to boardroom battle
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has rejected the validity of an alleged agreement that purported to give a minority shareholder veto power over her removal from the board, finding that the signature of the majority shareholder on the document was not authentic.
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April 28, 2025
Alberta Court of Appeal upholds $35M award for Calgary Co-op in loyalty program dispute
The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision ordering Saskatoon-based Federated Co-operatives Ltd. to pay former member store Calgary Co-op $35 million for implementing a loyalty program that the appeal court ruled essentially punished the Calgary store. The decision was heavily dissented by Justice Frans Slatter.
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April 28, 2025
Ontario’s ‘tough-on-crime’ proposals for judicial selection could backfire, lawyers warn
Two leaders with Ontario’s criminal justice bar are concerned that new “tough-on-crime” measures announced by Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government could serve to undermine the province’s criminal justice system rather than strengthen it.