Labour & Employment
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February 27, 2025
IRCC unveils Express Entry category draws for economic immigration, plans more in-Canada draws
Immigration Minister Marc Miller has announced the 2025 Express Entry categories, which include a new education category, with the aim of better aligning the selection of federal economic immigrants with Canada’s long-term labour shortages.
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February 27, 2025
Alberta tables ninth red tape reduction bill for housing, trades and charities
The Alberta government has tabled its ninth red tape reduction bill, the Red Tape Reduction Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 to further reduce certain regulations for individuals and businesses.
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February 27, 2025
Ottawa extends time for Ukrainians temporarily here under CUAET to apply for new open work permits
The federal government has announced that Ukrainians and their family members who fled Russia’s three-year-old full-scale illegal invasion of Ukraine, and who arrived in Canada under the temporary Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) by March 31, 2024, now have until March 31, 2026: to apply for a new open work permit valid for up to three years, to renew an existing work permit, or apply for a new study permit, “subject to standard fees.”
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February 27, 2025
Field Law welcomes five partners, two counsel
Lee Carter, Carolyn Paterson, Pat Robinson and Matt Vernon, based in Calgary, and Paul Kolida, in Edmonton, have been promoted to the position of partners while Don Blackett and Karen Wiwchar named counsel at Field Law., according to an announcement on the firm’s website.
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February 27, 2025
Preparing Canadian businesses for potential U.S. tariff impact
As the deadline for potential U.S. tariffs approaches, businesses across Canada are facing a wave of uncertainty. With the possibility of tariffs set to disrupt trade relations, the question on everyone’s mind is, “How will my business be impacted?” For many small and medium-sized businesses, this is the time to take proactive steps to prepare for the unknown.
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February 26, 2025
Nova Scotia asks CBSA to investigate tire imports ‘flooding Canadian market’
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has asked the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to conduct an urgent investigation into imports of passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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February 26, 2025
Higher-cost medicines drove 14.1 per cent spike in patented drug prices: Report
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board has published its latest report, finding that “drug costs jumped by 14.1 per cent in 2023, rebounding from three years of moderate increases of four to five per cent during the pandemic.”
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February 26, 2025
Nova Scotia tables legislation opening ‘free trade’ with other provinces, territories
With the Trump tariffs looming, Nova Scotia has introduced pioneering legislation that would create “free trade” with participating provinces and territories. On Feb. 25, Nova Scotia’s government introduced the Free Trade and Mobility within Canada Act — a “first of its kind in the country” that “will help foster an environment of mutual recognition of goods, services and labour mobility across all sectors,” states a news release.
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February 26, 2025
SCC halts use of its ‘X’ account ‘for now,’ citing ‘strategic priorities and resource allocation’
In a move that has sparked controversy in Canada and beyond, the Supreme Court of Canada tells Law360 Canada that “for now” it will no longer use its official account on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, a high-profile billionaire associate of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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February 26, 2025
Women & 2SLGBTQI+ applicants came out ahead as ‘highly recommended’ for federal benches in 2023-2024
Asserting his new administration is “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued controversial executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion policies and hiring at the federal level in America. But in Canada, the most recent demographic statistics on federal judicial appointments and the professional competence and character assessments made by the Trudeau government’s non-partisan judicial advisory committees (JACs) indicate that diversity has gone hand in hand with “merit.”