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November 06, 2026
With all its Quebec judges warning, in dissent, against the improper expansion of federal authority over labour relations, the Supreme Court of Canada has 5-4 affirmed that a union certification bid from Quebec falls within derivative federal jurisdiction over labour relations rather than under the province’s labour code. On Nov. 6, Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, writing for the majority, dismissed the attorney general of Quebec’s appeal: Quebec (Attorney General) v. SGS Canada inc., 2026 SCC 37.
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November 06, 2026
The federal government has announced changes to the low-wage stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, extending the maximum duration of employment from one year to two years and allowing applications for early childhood educators in metropolitan areas with unemployment rates of six per cent or higher.
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November 06, 2026
Reactions to the recently released federal budget have ranged from welcoming to warning, as organizations stress the need for stability amid ongoing economic uncertainty. Budget 2026, released on Nov. 5, emphasized growth and sovereignty with proposals geared towards energy infrastructure, critical minerals, affordability and supporting the arts.
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November 06, 2026
MLT Aikins has welcomed associate Kylie Jack to its Vancouver office.
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November 06, 2026
The Ontario Superior Court has certified a class action against TD Bank over allegations that it misrepresented its anti-money laundering (AML) controls, after its main U.S. operating subsidiary and its holding company pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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November 06, 2026
The Manitoba Court of King’s Bench has dismissed what it described as the final class action relating to Bill C-18, the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act, which also encompassed the Canadian Wheat Board (Interim Operations) Act.
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November 06, 2026
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has found that a Toronto lawyer directed a “wash trade” to artificially lower the share price of a public company based out of B.C.
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November 06, 2026
Legal observers are raising alarm bells about Ontario’s new omnibus red tape bill, saying it will largely eliminate the ability of people to hold the government accountable for decisions that could impact the environment and their communities.
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November 06, 2026
In the course of their compliance programs, reporting entities must obtain beneficial-ownership information and take reasonable measures to confirm its accuracy. Beneficial-ownership (BO) registers are meant to make the people behind corporations more visible. But what does a register entry actually establish? A recent CorpCentre research report — “Research Report 12 — Who Verified the Beneficial Owner?” — measured what federal public records show across filing histories. Its findings on accuracy and currency may lead you to revise your procedures.
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November 06, 2026
Appeal by Attorney General of Quebec from Court of Appeal of Quebec’s judgment upholding refusal to certify 14 inspectors and graders at Montréal Branch of SGS Canada inc. under Quebec Labour Code.
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November 06, 2026
The case of Jakupovic v. Intact Insurance Co., 2026 ONCA 651, decided by the Court of Appeal for Ontario on Sept. 17, 2026, exposes a contradiction at the heart of Ontario’s accident benefits regime. The courts have described the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS) as consumer protection legislation, yet the SABS places the burden on the injured person to know that benefits exist.
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November 06, 2026
Artificial intelligence promises to make divorce more affordable and accessible. But an emerging phenomenon known as “agentic flooding” could have the opposite effect: overwhelming separating spouses with automated legal demands, driving up legal fees and turning family litigation into a war of technological endurance.
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November 06, 2026
In 2020, Dr. Michael Schecter sold his dental practice. A condition of closing was that every associate dentist sign an agreement containing a five-kilometre non-compete. One associate was his father, Dr. Ira Schecter, who had owned the practice until 2014. The father resigned in October 2021, began practising within the five kilometres and argued that Ontario’s new statutory ban on non-competes made the covenant unenforceable. Justice Mohan Sharma held that the ban applies only to agreements made on or after Oct. 25, 2021, and granted the injunction: Parekh v. Schecter, 2022 ONSC 302.
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November 06, 2026
A criminal accused can fail to establish that a mental disorder rendered him not criminally responsible for an offence and still rely on evidence of that disorder to challenge whether he possessed the specific intent required for murder. That important distinction lies at the heart of a recent British Columbia Court of Appeal decision overturning the second-degree murder conviction of Yasin Jemal Rashid and ordering a new trial (R. v. Rashid, 2026 BCCA 364).
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November 06, 2026
The U.K. Intellectual Property Enterprise Court concluded that the trademark FLOWERBX did not designate the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value of the goods or services it was registered for use with. This result seems to be similar to that a Canadian court would reach (Flowerbx Ltd. v. Flowers Box London Ltd., [2026] EWHC 2233 (IPEC)).
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November 06, 2026
Appeal by the Minister of National Revenue from a judgment of the Tax Court concerning the Independent Order of Foresters. The Income Tax Act exempted the Order from paying tax on its income, but the exemption did not apply to its taxable income from its life insurance business.
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November 05, 2026
Capping bank customers’ liability for unauthorized transactions, extending the ban on foreign ownership of residential real estate and an enhanced capital gains exemption — along with new and stiffer penalties for environmental and fisheries violations — are among the myriad legislative changes the Carney government has proposed in its second budget.
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November 05, 2026
The Federal Court has ruled that the retrospective abolition of accelerated parole review (APR) was clearly unconstitutional when enacted, finding the Crown was not immune from Charter damages claims by affected class members who spent additional time in prison as a result.
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November 05, 2026
The federal government has announced that it is conducting consultations on 12 Atlantic salmon populations for potential listing under the Species at Risk Act. The populations range across Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
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November 05, 2026
The Carney government’s latest federal budget says Ottawa will implement a 2027-2029 Immigration Levels Plan that sets targets of 370,000 new temporary resident arrivals and 380,000 permanent resident admissions in each of 2027, 2028 and 2029.
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November 05, 2026
Mathews Dinsdale has welcomed Anne Gallop and Jennifer Hodgins as partners and Julia Bassett as counsel in its Toronto office.
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November 05, 2026
Mirzaei began with a line in a computer log. In March 2026, in a case challenging the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) refusal to give her a second review, our client received the CRA’s certified record of her file. One entry, dated Nov. 11, 2024, read: “This case has been automatically completed as a no-reply.” It was attributed to “BOT067G” (Applicant’s motion record, written representations, paras. 8, 10).
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November 05, 2026
Jean-François De Rico has returned to Fasken as a partner in its business law group in Quebec City.
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November 05, 2026
Aleksandra Finelli has joined Aird & Berlis as a partner with the firm’s real estate team.
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November 05, 2026
The news feeds of lawyers and CEOs in North America have recently blown up due to Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP’s billion-dollar U.S. law firm dissolving seemingly overnight leaving hundreds looking for new work. It seems only yesterday that this happened with Minden Gross and Heenan Blaikie in Canada. When this happens, the speed with which it seems to happen always leaves those reading about it scratching their heads: how is it possible that this could happen to such large firms? Is the legal industry secure? Is it AI, poor culture or something nefarious causing this? If you are an employee or partner at a law firm or a law firm owner, how can you mitigate these risks?