Business
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February 14, 2025
Unifor members win ‘historic’ $15 million arbitration award in severance pay dispute
Unifor has announced it has won what it calls a “historic arbitration award” of about $15 million for 200 of its union members who worked at Wingham, Ont.-based automotive exhaust manufacturer Wescast Industries. The union and the company were involved in a nearly two-year dispute regarding severance and termination pay.
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February 14, 2025
Alberta Court of Appeal upholds decision limiting profit sharing damages for wrongful dismissal
The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld an order requiring an employer to pay a terminated employee payments under a shareholder profit sharing program (SHPS) until the former employee was required to sell the shares back to the company.
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February 14, 2025
Feds launch 2025 pre-budget consultations amid tariff uncertainty
The federal government has launched pre-budget consultations amid the looming threat of the U.S. potentially imposing tariffs on Canadian imports.
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February 14, 2025
Federal Court of Appeal rejects ‘commandeering’ intervention in tax appeal, provides guidelines
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a motion to intervene in an appeal of a Tax Court decision, finding that the proposed intervener sought to introduce a new issue and evidence. Justice David Stratas used the case to discuss the limitations of potential interveners at the appellate level.
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February 14, 2025
Quite the departure | Marcel Strigberger
“Only two things are infinite — the universe and man’s stupidity; and I’m not too sure about the universe.” — (often attributed to) Alberta Einstein
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February 14, 2025
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP adds new lawyer to the firm
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP announced Kyra Flomen as a new lawyer to the firm. Kyra practises primarily in the areas of corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate and commercial law. She first joined the firm as a summer student in 2022 and articled with the firm in 2023-2024.
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February 14, 2025
Should courts be less reticent to set aside arbitral awards for breaches of procedural fairness?
Arbitration is not some lesser form of dispute resolution than that being conducted in the courts, and the need for procedural fairness is as important to ensuring justice.
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February 14, 2025
Hosel rockets: Time to drop the glove(s)? | Michael Cochrane
It had been a particularly hot and humid day for a round of golf, downright sticky and nothing was going right. This was not what I had imagined as I drove to the course that morning. Nor was it the breakthrough round I sensed was imminent as I warmed up on the range. No, after several holes too many bunkers had been excavated, my ball retriever was working overtime searching murky ponds and a sleeve of expensive new balls had disappeared after a mere one stroke each. And then there was the slow play. Our group was actively grousing about the delays. (“The front nine shouldn’t take three hours. Where’s the marshal?”)
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February 13, 2025
CBA urges new funding as Federal Court’s massive budget shortfall threatens drastic service cuts
The Liberal government’s underfunding of the Federal Court could “drastically” reduce service to litigants, its chief justice warns, spurring the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) to call for urgent “off-cycle” federal funding to address the national trial court’s chronic multi-million-dollar budgetary shortfalls.
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February 13, 2025
Yukon Court of Appeal to hear case examining if power utility may exceed diesel limits
The Yukon Court of Appeal will hear a challenge to a Yukon Utilities Board decision approving the inclusion of Yukon Energy Corporation’s forecasted costs for diesel generation capacity exceeding its permitted environmental limits in the rate-setting process.