June 08, 2026
My good friend Felicity had a problem. Her relatives were making comments about how she takes care of her elderly father, who I will call Allan. She gave me the example of an aunt who asked, “Why is Allan still driving?” and expressed her opinion that Allan is too old and ill to be driving. She said it in a way that implied it was Felicity’s fault.
June 08, 2026
Eli Guay was sentenced to hang in 1959 for a planned, merciless killing of an old man who lived in a remote shack outside the city of Sudbury, Ont.
June 08, 2026
Appeal by Murphy from damages award arising from motor vehicle accident, challenging the judge’s use of negative contingency deductions. Liability was admitted. The judge found that the accident caused Murphy to suffer chronic neck and upper back pain, headaches, tinnitus with hearing loss, sleep disturbance, cervicogenic headaches, and residual somatic symptom disorder, but not depression.
June 05, 2026
Manitoba has passed Canada’s first nurse-to-patient ratio legislation to improve patient safety, support nurses and strengthen health care staffing across the province.
June 05, 2026
Yukon’s Supreme Court has issued a directive on the use of generative AI “in written and oral representations” in a bid to reinforce the “integrity and credibility of legal proceedings.”
June 05, 2026
Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne tabled his annual report in Parliament on June 4, noting efforts to promote privacy and provide leadership to individuals and businesses in light of rapidly developing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
June 05, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed that criminal convictions must be based on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, not simply on choosing one witness’s account over another.
June 05, 2026
In the usual course of estate administration, one of the preliminary steps is often obtaining a Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee with a Will (often referred to as “probate”). Generally, this is an administrative, over-the-counter process. The applicant files the original will, the prescribed application forms, any supporting materials required by the court, and pays the applicable Estate Administration Tax. If the application is in order, the court issues a Certificate of Appointment confirming the authority of the estate trustee named in the will.
June 05, 2026
Clark Wilson has added Erin Valentine as an associate in its higher learning and business litigation groups in Vancouver.
June 05, 2026
The Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) Policy is designed to ensure that companies awarded defence procurement contracts undertake business activities in Canada equal to the value of the contracts they have won. The policy aims to ensure that “significant investments in defence-related goods and services generate long-term and high-value economic benefit to Canadian industry and encourage the growth of industry in emerging technologies, established and globally competitive capabilities, and domestic capacity related to national security issues.”