Civil Litigation
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September 17, 2025
CBA offers Parliament ‘better way’ forward to reform beleaguered immigration and refugee system
As parliamentary debate resumed yesterday over the Liberal government’s proposed ad hoc fixes for Canada’s creaky immigration and refugee system, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is offering legislators a detailed roadmap for wholesale modernization that charts an effective, fair and constitutionally sound way forward, members of the immigration bar say.
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September 17, 2025
Ford urges Carney to maintain Chinese EV tariffs to protect auto jobs, investments
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Ottawa to maintain a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling it critical to a future trade deal with the U.S. and to the auto sector.
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September 17, 2025
Proposed settlement of $2.7M reached in vehicle transportation price-fixing class actions
A proposed $2.7-million class action settlement has been reached in Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario lawsuits with two companies that were in the business of offering vehicle carrier services between certain ports.
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September 17, 2025
B.C. court orders redetermination of Uber wheelchair accessibility dispute
The B.C. Supreme Court has set aside a ruling that Uber discriminated against a wheelchair user by failing to offer wheelchair accessible rides in the Lower Mainland region of B.C.
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September 17, 2025
Court finds triable issue regarding promissory note of $300K loan return
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has found there is a triable issue regarding the repayment of a $300,000 loan and its interest due to non-compliant wording of a promissory note.
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September 17, 2025
Kate Costin named partner at Aird & Berlis
Aird & Berlis has a new partner: Kate Costin. According to a statement from the firm, Costin has joined its litigation and construction groups.
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September 17, 2025
Reducing the ‘strikingly high’ commissions of auto brokers in Alberta: Another key to affordability
Two months ago, we explored how unrestrained auto body insurance fraud, evidenced by nine out of 10 hidden cameras and other indicators across Canada, likely impacts auto insurance affordability here in Alberta. This article recognizes another area of auto insurance that could use some serious reform: auto insurance broker regulation.
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September 17, 2025
Business succession: Team sports in the legal profession
If every family is dysfunctional, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then to fix them, we need to have more than one tool available. And if the type of thinking that fixes problems is different than the type of thinking which created them, then to work with families on business succession we need to look for solutions in places that the families have not considered.
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September 17, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal clarifies rules of evidence for impaired convictions
Impaired driving is a criminal offence throughout Canada. However, the requirements for the Crown to prove impairment differ depending on the province. The Ontario Court of Appeal decision in R. v. Kim, 2025 ONCA 478 involved three individuals who, after appeals to a Summary Convictions Appeal Court, were convicted of operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 80 or higher.
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September 16, 2025
Cabinet says new criminal legislation coming in ‘matter of days’ but federal budget not till Nov. 4
With MPs back in the capital for the fall, the first two days in the House of Commons were busy ones for legislators. On Sept. 16, 2025, Justice Minister Sean Fraser disclosed some of the Liberal government’s immediate plans and timing for new criminal justice legislation, while Finance and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne informed the Commons today that he will deliver a somewhat tardy federal budget on Nov. 4, 2025 — not in October, as Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon stated when he laid out the minority government’s fall agenda at a press conference the previous day.