Labour & Employment
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March 06, 2026
Aaron Johnson joins Roper Greyell as associate
Roper Greyell has welcomed Aaron Johnson as an associate in Vancouver.
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March 05, 2026
Canada, Australia partner for critical minerals, defence, AI
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced new partnerships with Australia in investment, defence, security, critical minerals, energy and artificial intelligence.
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March 05, 2026
Class action certified for foreign workers alleging systemic denial of EI, ‘racist’ contract terms
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has certified a class action for certain temporary workers challenging their contract terms including residence requirements, termination provisions, enforced seasonality and denial of employment insurance (EI) benefits despite paying into it. They argued the terms stemmed from motives to disadvantage racialized workers.
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March 05, 2026
Canada’s defence industrial strategy: Building domestic capacity, unlocking business opportunities
A rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape marked by, as Mark Carney argues, the erosion of the international rules‑based order and intensifying technological competition has driven a fundamental reassessment of national security and defence policy in Canada. The federal government recently released Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS), a potentially transformative economic framework designed to strengthen national sovereignty and catalyze industrial growth.
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March 04, 2026
Publicly linked subcontractors of federal contractor not exempt from disclosure under AITA: court
The Federal Court has ordered the disclosure of the identities of certain subcontractors recruited by a consulting firm to perform work under a federal contract, holding that the information was not exempt under the Access to Information Act (AITA) because their connection to the work was publicly discernible.
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March 04, 2026
Crawley MacKewn Brush adds Mitchell Fournie as partner
Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP has admitted Mitchell Fournie to the firm’s partnership.
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March 04, 2026
How to show legal U.S. immigration status and avoid problems with ICE
The news is full of stories about foreign nationals running into problems with the agencies that are tasked with immigration enforcement, issuing immigration benefits and border concerns. While there have been some changes to the priorities and the policies utilized by these agencies, the recommendations about how to maintain status, avoid apprehension and demonstrate legal status if apprehended have largely not changed.
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March 04, 2026
Efficiency or privacy? AI scribes in Canadian health care explained
Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes are increasingly being explored as a tool to ease administrative burdens during Canada’s primary health care crisis. These tools use generative AI to transcribe and summarize clinical conversations, producing notes, referrals, prescriptions and other documentation that are integrated with electronic medical records. In Ontario and across Canada, interest in AI scribes is accelerating, supported by programs such as those led by OntarioMD (with the Ministry of Health and Supply Ontario) and Canada Health Infoway (supported by Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care).
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March 03, 2026
B.C. amends Workers Compensation Act to expand benefits for firefighters
The Government of British Columbia is amending the Firefighters’ Occupational Disease Regulation under the Workers Compensation Act to add “eight more cancers to the workers’ compensation cancer presumptions for firefighters.”
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March 03, 2026
Emily Conte joins McCague Borlack in Ottawa
Emily Conte has joined McCague Borlack LLP as an associate in the firm’s Ottawa office.