July 27, 2026
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has awarded special costs to a respondent strata company in a case where there was unnecessary delay and egregious conduct relating to litigation for a lien on a unit.
July 27, 2026
In 1048977 B.C. Ltd. v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada, 2025 BCSC 1532 (Aviva), the British Columbia Supreme Court was asked to engage in a measure of “crystal ball gazing” as it assessed the lost profits of a restaurant and event venue that never opened.
July 27, 2026
Cain Lamarre has added Jean-François Denis as senior director of professional practice, knowledge and innovation.
July 27, 2026
There was once a law firm with a corporate department consisting of a law clerk and one absolutely awful senior corporate lawyer who I will call Carl. Carl was smart. He just had no practice management skills. He was a cluster-fuzz of negligence claims, just waiting to blow up.
July 27, 2026
Canada and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have concluded negotiations on an economic pact they say will strengthen bilateral trade and investment ties between the two nations.
July 27, 2026
Robins Appleby LLP has added Julia Sugden as an associate in its commercial real estate and development group in Toronto.
July 27, 2026
On June 15, the federal government tabled its long-awaited, updated privacy reform law, Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA). The bill, together with the government’s proposed new online harms legislation, Bill C-34, can be seen as setting forth some specifics onto the generalities of its national AI strategy, “AI for All,” announced June 4.
July 24, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a contempt finding and $30,000 fine against the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA), finding that a motion judge misapplied the legal test for contempt and unjustifiably used “dismissive and derogatory” language to characterize the regulator’s conduct.
July 24, 2026
For most of the past decade, the dominant compliance problem in Canada’s digital economy was one of invisibility. Platform income — whether earned through Airbnb, Uber, Etsy, YouTube, or a subscription content service — was self-reported, difficult for the Canada Revenue Agency to verify independently, and largely invisible to the agency’s audit selection algorithms unless the taxpayer’s bank deposits or lifestyle flagged a discrepancy. That environment has changed.
July 24, 2026
The law governing damages arising from the manner of dismissal appeared to be settled nearly two decades ago. In Honda Canada Inc. v. Keays, 2008 SCC 39 (Honda), the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the approach that had developed under Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd., (c.o.b. Public Press), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 701 (Wallace), and replaced it with a framework focused on “actual damages.” Under Honda, damages flowing from an employer’s bad faith conduct in the manner of dismissal were to be assessed according to the same principles and in the same way as moral damages rather than through an extension of the employee’s notice period.