May 13, 2026
Ontario’s highest court has turned back a challenge by more than 400 current and former health care workers who were disciplined or dismissed because of their refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The workers were challenging the dismissal of their claim by an Ontario Superior Court judge, who said it was both an abuse of process and disclosed no reasonable cause of action.
May 12, 2026
Ontario nurses have launched a constitutional challenge of a decades-old statute that prohibits them from taking job action. The lawsuit from the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), which represents more than 68,000 nurses and health care professionals, aims to strike down the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act (HLDAA).
May 07, 2026
The federal privacy commissioner has called on the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to strengthen protections for taxpayer information after finding persistent gaps in the agency’s privacy and security systems despite reforms introduced since 2024.
May 07, 2026
The Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) and an association representing trial lawyers in the province have announced they are appealing a recent court decision that dismissed a constitutional challenge of the province’s Legal Professions Act.
May 07, 2026
Appeal by College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (College) and the Attorney General of British Columbia (AGBC) from a chambers judge’s declaration that ss. 26.2 and 53 (provisions) of the Health Professions Act (HPA) were unconstitutional for violating s. 96 of the Constitution Act.
May 05, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that former Supreme Court of Canada justice Louise Arbour will become Canada’s next governor general. Arbour will become the first former judge of the top court to take on the vice-regal role.
May 05, 2026
B.C.’s top court has rejected the arguments from a First Nations chief that he was acting in accordance with his peoples’ traditional laws when violating a court injunction against impeding the construction of a natural gas pipeline, saying such a defence if it were to be recognized could only be raised as a last resort.
May 01, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed there was an unjustified infringement on Quebec residents’ voting rights due to a law that interrupts the process of determining electoral boundaries.
May 01, 2026
Appeal by Ryan from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal which found that s. 12 of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act (Act) was intra vires the federal Parliament. The Act was enacted for the purpose of setting up a statutory committee of parliamentarians to oversee Canada’s national security and intelligence apparatus (Committee).
May 01, 2026
Appeal by the appellant from a judgment of the Quebec Court of Appeal which set aside a judgment dismissing an application for judicial review. The Act to interrupt the electoral division delimitation process (ATI) has the effect of interrupting the process relating to the delimitation of Quebec’s electoral divisions made by the Commission de la représentation after every second general election.