Business

  • June 03, 2026

    Natasha MacParland joins Dentons as partner

    Dentons Canada has added Natasha MacParland as a partner in its Toronto office, the firm says.

  • June 03, 2026

    Reducing development charges could make housing projects up to 14% more viable: CMHC

    The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has indicated in an updated analysis that “reducing or eliminating development charges could increase the number of financially viable housing projects across Canadian cities, with gains of 9-14 per cent in cities with higher development charges.”

  • June 03, 2026

    Appeal Court alters judgment on company liquidation, favours share buyout

    The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the finding that shareholders were not subject to oppression in a company’s affairs, but found that an alternative remedy to the liquidation ordered by the lower court was available.

  • June 03, 2026

    NATURE OF CONTRACT - Certainty of terms - Intention to create legal obligations

    Appeals by the appellants from the dismissal of two actions tried together. The first was an action against A.R. Thomson Group (ARTG) for breach of an alleged oral contract for Lisa’s reinstatement as a partner in the family business, and secondly a companion action against Allan (now his Estate) for negligent or fraudulent misrepresentation as to authority.

  • June 02, 2026

    Trade tribunal, CPP Investments add new appointees

    The federal government has appointed Susan Hutton as a temporary member of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) and Elizabeth Cannon to the board of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), the Department of Finance has announced.

  • June 02, 2026

    Sarah Mitchell named chief operating officer at Dunton Rainville

    Dunton Rainville has appointed Sarah Mitchell as its chief operating officer, based in Montreal.

  • June 02, 2026

    Think tank urges cloud competition reforms, interoperability requirements

    A competition policy think tank is warning that concentration in Canada’s cloud computing market could be reinforced by the growth of artificial intelligence services and is calling for interoperability requirements in federal cloud procurement and domestic cloud investment programs.

  • June 02, 2026

    Inadvertently disclosed privileged documents: How to respond

    The inadvertent disclosure of a privilege document by one side to another during litigation has been likened by one motion judge to the transmission of an infection: “[T]he more quickly it is contained, the easier it may be to eradicate its harmful effect” (White v. 123627 Canada Inc. (c.o.b. Algonquin Petro Canada), 2014 ONSC 2682).

  • June 02, 2026

    B.C. gender pay gap at 14.5% in 2025: report

    Women in British Columbia earned 85 cents for every dollar earned by men in the province in 2025, according to the province’s third annual Pay Transparency Report. The gender pay gap in the province shrank from 18.4 per cent in 2022 to 14.5 per cent in 2025.

  • June 01, 2026

    Federal Court rejects JTI bid for additional disclosure in federal tobacco charge challenge

    The Federal Court has dismissed a motion by JTI-Macdonald Corp. to compel the disclosure of additional records in its challenge to the federal tobacco cost-recovery regime, reaffirming that Rule 317 of the Federal Courts Rules is not a discovery mechanism.

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