September 16, 2026
Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench is now allowing accused persons in remand who are challenging their detention the option of affirming the truth of their affidavits via video appearance.
September 16, 2026
Police need not perform “an exhaustive, confirmatory investigation” to form a reasonable belief that there is cannabis being illegally stored in a vehicle, states an Ontario court in ordering a new trial for a driver who was arrested after police allegedly found drugs in his car and a gun hidden in the gearshift.
September 14, 2026
Like the air we breathe, citizenship is normally taken for granted — until it’s stripped away. I know this intimately. At age 6, Canada revoked my citizenship, despite my birth on Canadian soil to two Canadian-citizen parents. It took 47 years to reclaim my birthright, and when I finally did, it was as an immigrant. The United States — a country to which I never pledged allegiance — granted me citizenship. My own country denied me any say in my destiny.
September 14, 2026
Justice Mary Lou Benotto’s recent review of Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) contains disturbing accounts of antisemitism. Jewish students, faculty and staff describe harassment, concealing their identity and feeling unsafe. Those accounts should be taken seriously, and TMU has an obligation to address them.
September 11, 2026
Appeal by appellant from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal which reduced his 24-month conditional sentence to 20 months. The appellant was convicted of sexual assault in October 2021.
September 08, 2026
Workers, employers, HR professionals, unions and various other groups and organizations in New Brunswick are being invited to a series of in-person consultations as part of the province’s review of its gender pay equity legislation.
September 08, 2026
Bronwyn Eyre will join the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) as senior counsel in mid-October.
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 01, 2026
The Ontario government has announced it has issued a request for proposals to begin the process of restoring motor vehicle lanes in Toronto that were previously removed for bicycle lanes. This comes after a Court of Appeal decision overturning the finding that the bike lanes’ removal breached Charter rights.
September 01, 2026
The Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court has certified a class action relating to the operation of Innu day schools in Labrador, allowing certain claims against the province and Canada for breaches of fiduciary duty and negligence to be tried. The plaintiffs alleged that government assimilation caused harms including physical and sexual abuse and loss of language and culture.