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  • March 13, 2026

    Saskatchewan eyeing way to have owners keep banned guns until compensated by feds

    Saskatchewan is ramping up its push against the federal government’s gun buyback program — this time by proposing legislative changes that would allow owners of banned firearms to keep them on behalf of the province.

  • March 13, 2026

    Eight grounds for appeal dismissed in Ontario murder of appellant’s partner, child

    After a four-month trial, Glenn Bauman was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his common law partner, Linda Daniel, and her young daughter, Cheyenne. The trial took place five years after their disappearance.

  • March 12, 2026

    Nova Scotia man convicted of making 3D firearms, CBSA announces

    The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced that a Nova Scotia man has been sentenced to six years in prison for manufacturing 3D firearms, according to a March 12 statement.

  • March 12, 2026

    Health Canada adds five fentanyl precursors to list of permanent controlled substances

    Health Canada’s addition next month of five chemicals to the list of permanent controlled substances that are precursors to the manufacture of fentanyl prompted a question to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, asking why Canada, unlike the U.K. and the U.S., does not also list under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) the animal tranquillizers that frequently contaminate fentanyl.

  • March 12, 2026

    N.W.T. issues ‘What We Heard’ report on planned trespass laws

    Many residents of the Northwest Territories consider trespassing on private property to be a problem and want laws that give them more tools to remove trespassers, require them to identify themselves and allow their arrest.

  • March 12, 2026

    Lowering the rate of Indigenous over-incarceration in Saskatchewan

    Canada’s criminal law is written in Ottawa, but the provinces enforce it. That constitutional division helps explain why incarceration rates vary so dramatically across the country. Nowhere is the contrast more striking than in Saskatchewan, which has at times recorded the highest incarceration rate in Canada and one of the highest among sub-national jurisdictions in the western world.

  • March 12, 2026

    SENTENCING - Offences against person and reputation - Offences relating to conveyances

    Appeal by Georgopoulos from a sentence of two and a half years’ imprisonment and a six-year driving prohibition imposed following his conviction for dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm. The appellant, a 42-year-old mortgage broker with no criminal record, was driving and while attempting to pass a streetcar, he accelerated from 52 km/h to 112 km/h in a 40 km/h zone without braking, striking a parked car, the streetcar, and another vehicle.

  • March 12, 2026

    Student paper snapshots in animal law: Animals vs. plastics

    As part of my ongoing Student Paper Snapshots in Animal Law series in these pages, I am not only featuring my own animal law students from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, but I have also invited students from other universities to showcase their thought-provoking research papers.

  • March 11, 2026

    The billable hour is running out of time

    Early in my career, I noticed a pattern I could not ignore. I would build rapport with clients, earn their trust and then watch everything fall apart the moment the invoice was sent. They were not upset with me personally, even though sometimes it felt that way. They were blindsided by a system that charged them in a way they found unfair. Even worse, I would get penalized if I found strategies to be fast and efficient to make it more fair.

  • March 10, 2026

    Ottawa, B.C. move ahead with anti-hate legislation to combat rising antisemitism, targeted violence

    As the federal and B.C. governments push ahead with new anti-hate measures, legal experts in the Jewish community advise that robust political leadership, specialized training for prosecutors and police, and new legal tools — bolstered by greater enforcement of the existing criminal law — are keys to fighting the explosion of antisemitism and hate in Canada since the terrorist massacre of hundreds of people in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.