June 09, 2026
Ontario’s top court has ruled in favour of a provincial law aimed at trespassing on farms, saying it did not violate the Charter’s free expression protections.
June 09, 2026
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal and cross-appeal of a certified class action against video game company Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) relating to the sale of “loot boxes” bought by players in 77 games.
June 09, 2026
The adage that “the devil is in the details” may remind criminal defence counsel that a successful appeal may hinge on examining inferences rather than hard facts. A Saskatchewan man, Jeffrey Leonard Stark, was convicted by a jury of unlawfully confining and sexually assaulting a female complainant. He appealed his conviction. The appeal in R. v. Stark, 2026 SKCA 48 centred on the trial judge’s instructions to the jury rather than on denying the facts as alleged.
June 08, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney cited the extraordinary international and domestic legal experiences and deep constitutional expertise of Louise Arbour as a law professor, UN war crimes prosecutor and judge at all court levels as key attributes that led to her appointment as Canada’s 31st Governor General.
June 08, 2026
The Law Society of Saskatchewan turned out a “solid” annual report for 2025 — and members should pay particular attention to the implementation of limited licensing in the province, says the regulator’s past president.
June 08, 2026
The Federal Court has blocked the removal of Mohamed Harkat, an Algerian refugee previously found to have operated a guest house for an associate of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, been part of the bin Laden network and assisted Islamist extremists in Canada.
June 08, 2026
Eli Guay was sentenced to hang in 1959 for a planned, merciless killing of an old man who lived in a remote shack outside the city of Sudbury, Ont.
June 05, 2026
Yukon’s Supreme Court has issued a directive on the use of generative AI “in written and oral representations” in a bid to reinforce the “integrity and credibility of legal proceedings.”
June 05, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed that criminal convictions must be based on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, not simply on choosing one witness’s account over another.
June 05, 2026
Appeal by Berg from a judgment of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal which affirmed his conviction for sexual assault. The main issue before the trial judge was whether the complainant had consented to sex with Berg. Both testified at trial and it was common ground that the sexual activity in question included sexual intercourse.