June 24, 2026
The British Columbia Supreme Court has certified statutory privacy tort claims in a 2023 data breach affecting nearly 1.5 million Canadian investors, but held that overlapping negligence and breach-of-contract claims should proceed in an existing national class action in Ontario.
June 24, 2026
McDougall Gauley LLP has added Joy M. Brailean, Shaan Kapila, Jenna L. Sabine and Tenielle A. Workman as lawyers following their articling with the firm, the Saskatchewan firm says. All were called to the bar in May and June 2026.
June 24, 2026
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) announced on June 23 that it has published a revised “Guideline on Complaint-Handling Procedures for Banks and Authorized Foreign Banks.”
June 24, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Diep (Litigation guardian of) v. Mac’s Convenience Stores Inc., 2026 ONCA 424 is a useful reminder that not every injury occurring near a motor vehicle becomes an automobile case. Sometimes a car is central. Sometimes it is background scenery. And sometimes, as in this case, the vehicle is legally important for one purpose but not important enough for another.
June 23, 2026
The Ontario Securities Commission’s (OSC) proposal to make securities regulation machine-readable could require regulators to make interpretive choices that have traditionally been left to lawyers and market participants, according to Cassels Capital Markets Group partner Gregory Hogan.
June 23, 2026
The Federal Court has updated its intellectual property case and trial management guidelines, adding a new section on summary trials and judgements.
June 22, 2026
Manitoba’s top court has ruled provincial health authorities were wrong to refuse insurance for two sisters who had to travel to the U.S. for treatment — while also including a stern warning for health care decision-makers to keep within the bounds of the law.
June 23, 2026
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs has publicly weighed in on a Supreme Court of Canada nomination, stating they “wholeheartedly endorse” Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal’s candidacy and are “confident he will bring fairness, wisdom and humility to Canada’s highest court.”
June 23, 2026
Notwithstanding the multitude of admonishments that courts in several jurisdictions have given to lawyers about the use of non-existent cases or hallucinated quotations from real cases to support their positions, lawyers continue to use generative artificial intelligence to conduct legal research without checking and verifying its output.
June 22, 2026
In part one of this series, we looked at how paragraph 207 of Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16 paves the way for litigation abuse claims, plus how Rule 5.1-1 of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada Model Code of Professional Conduct affects the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision.