September 04, 2026
Employment insurance rules that deny regular benefits to women who lose their jobs shortly before, during or after maternity and parental leave violate the Charter’s equality guarantee, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled.
September 04, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has found that the lower court made numerous errors in finding that a requirement for information in a tax audit of a multinational conglomerate was for unnamed persons and needed prior judicial authorization.
September 04, 2026
Ontario’s top court has upheld a law that extinguished a developer’s potential claims against the province over its Greenbelt land designation, ruling that the constitutional protection of the superior courts’ core jurisdiction does not create an individual right to sue the government.
September 04, 2026
Sullivan Mahoney LLP has welcomed Evan B. Alderman, Gabriel D. Costantini and Robert Kim as associates. The firm has offices in St. Catharines and Niagara Falls, Ont.
September 04, 2026
MLT Aikins has welcomed associate lawyer Sam Riendeau to its Saskatoon office.
September 03, 2026
Criticizing judges is not wrong. Indeed, criticism of judicial decisions is an important part of a free society. Judges are not infallible, and their reasons are properly subject to scrutiny by lawyers, academics, journalists and the public.
September 04, 2026
Business relationships do not always break down cleanly. In closely held companies, disputes tend to begin gradually.
September 03, 2026
Ottawa has unveiled what it calls “a nationally recognized baseline” of five principles — backed by major U.S. and Canadian artificial intelligence and other technology industry players — to help municipal governments and communities assess proposals to build AI data centres in their localities.
September 03, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a finding that only investors who took the developers of a failed real estate project to trial were entitled to share in the land-sale proceeds, ruling that investors who entered settlement agreements but were never paid also held purchase-money resulting trusts over the funds.
September 03, 2026
Upcoming conferences listed by Saskatchewan’s law society will include a look into the emotional challenges in estate disputes, French terminology in family law contracts, and the current state of AI in the legal profession.