September 28, 2026
The Competition Bureau has announced that it has launched an investigation into the use of minimum advertised pricing policies in the grocery sector due to competition concerns.
September 28, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that an insurer must cover a claim arising from a mortgage brokerage’s fraudulent misappropriation of client money, finding that funds held in trust can still qualify as “mortgage funds” under the policy’s fraud endorsement.
September 28, 2026
Ask any lawyer to name the most important advocacy tools and you will hear their checklist — knowing the law, skillfully drafting documents, studiously preparing for hearings and delivering forceful oratory. Almost no lawyer mentions that staying silent, pausing before speaking and delivering a relational message are the most important advocacy tools.
September 28, 2026
Section 84.1 of the Income Tax Act, the intergenerational transfer rules, has since 2024 contained a working exception for sales of a private company to a child’s corporation. Paragraph 84.1(2)(e) deems the vendor and the purchaser corporation to deal at arm’s length where the conditions of either ss. 84.1(2.31) or (2.32) are met, which switches off the deemed dividend and leaves the vendor with a capital gain eligible for the lifetime capital gains exemption — $1,275,000 for 2026. The conditions are not tax conditions. They are a statutory description of a vendor who has left the business, and the vendor’s counsel, not the accountant, is the one who has to make the client match it.
September 28, 2026
On Aug. 5, 2026, the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) released two survey reports as part of its ongoing review of protection orders in the province. One surveyed 80 people with lived experience of the system. The other surveyed 257 legal and social service professionals who work inside it.
September 28, 2026
Anthony de Fazekas has joined Pulse Law as a lawyer and intellectual property lead, working in Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.
September 28, 2026
Brynne Thomas and Sian Shin have returned to Epstein Cole as associates in Toronto after previously working with the firm as summer and articling students.
September 28, 2026
Alberta has announced four judicial appointments, including one applications judge to the Court of King’s Bench and three justices to the Alberta Court of Justice.
September 28, 2026
A criminal conviction is meant to bring finality. But finality should never become more important than getting the decision right. That is an important lesson from the decision of Justice Minister Sean Fraser to refer the murder convictions of Odelia and Neressa Quewezance to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.
September 28, 2026
The United States has launched tariffs under the Trump regime, and possibly future regimes, to counteract its decline as the world’s leading superpower. These tariffs impact valuation of any business engaged in global trade. To value such businesses, one must consider where the business operates, and whether that jurisdiction adjusted (i.e., Australia or Ireland, etc.), complied or negotiated a deal (i.e., the EU, Japan, U.K. and others), or retaliated (i.e., China or Canada).