August 04, 2026
The Federal Court has approved a class action settlement relating to alleged privacy breaches of Government of Canada online accounts, including the Canada Revenue Agency’s “My Account” and “Represent a Client” accounts, My Service Canada accounts and other accounts accessed using GCKey.
August 04, 2026
Prediction markets are not gambling. They are not securities markets. They are not derivatives exchanges. They exhibit characteristics of all three simultaneously, and that ambiguity is precisely what makes them one of the most analytically interesting problems in Canadian tax law today.
August 04, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to allow a claim for misfeasance in public office against Alberta’s chief electoral officer to proceed to the merits in Resler v. Anglin, 2026 SCC 23 highlights the boundary between public and private law remedies for acts of public officials, the challenges of striking a far-fetched but properly pleaded claim, and the trade-offs in finding the right case to resolve unsettled legal issues like loss of chance damages.
August 04, 2026
Most people assume that once a judge has decided a case, writing the reasons is merely a matter of putting pen to paper. The Ontario Court of Appeal has now reminded us that the law views it differently.
August 04, 2026
The Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) has released its first merits decision interpreting the new replacement worker provisions under the Canada Labour Code, which were introduced in 2025 through Bill C-58. The decision clarifies that the new rules do not create a blanket prohibition on the use of replacement workers in unionized federally regulated workplaces but instead restrict the use of specified categories of persons during lawful strikes and lockouts.
July 31, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously set out the presumptions, procedure and remedies applicable to litigated claims of “spoliation” — i.e., claims against parties who engage in the “intentional destruction, alteration, mutilation, or concealment of evidence with a view to subverting the truth-finding process during litigation.”
July 31, 2026
An immigration consultant accused of misrepresentation in relation to the sponsorship of refugees has been given a new trial after it was found the trial judge took too long to deliver written reasons for finding him guilty.
July 31, 2026
British Columbia’s amendments to its Employment Standards Act and the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act will be in effect as of Aug. 1. The changes aim to improve the complaint and dispute-resolution process at the Employment Standards Branch.
July 31, 2026
The federal government is imposing a 25 per cent surtax on “imports of certain wood cabinets and vanities” as a Canadian International Trade Tribunal safeguard inquiry on such goods continues.
July 31, 2026
Appeal by SS&C Technologies Canada Corporation (SS&C) from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal. SS&C supplied proprietary financial data used to generate securities pricing information. In 1999, its predecessor entered into a data services agreement with Bank of New York Mellon Corp.’s (BNYM) predecessor authorizing only BNYM to access the data and prohibiting its sharing, redistribution, or sale to third parties, including affiliates.