Labour & Employment
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December 08, 2025
Look out! Bait-and-switch tactics during the holiday season
The holiday season in Canada is a time for celebration, gift-giving and, sadly, an increased volume of deceptive advertising practices. As consumers navigate the wave of tantalizing promotions and discounts, it becomes essential to understand legal protections, particularly regarding bait-and-switch tactics, and to remain vigilant when making purchases.
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December 08, 2025
The hidden mental health crisis facing Canada’s immigration lawyers
Over the past several years, the Canadian immigration system has been transformed by political volatility, rising refusal rates, increasing automation and a level of unpredictability unprecedented in modern practice. Policies change suddenly, pathways disappear without warning, caps are imposed overnight and entire programs fluctuate depending on the priorities of whichever minister happens to be in office that year.
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December 08, 2025
Lawyer’s desecration of Holocaust monument highlights rise of professional-class antisemitism
On Dec. 1, Justice Anne London-Weinstein of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice heard sentencing submissions for Iain Aspenlieder, an Ottawa municipal lawyer who vandalized Canada’s National Holocaust Monument. Her Honour said that Aspenlieder’s actions exemplify a growing and deeply unsettling reality: antisemitism in Canada is increasingly emerging not from the poor or uneducated, but from the educated and professionally empowered.
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December 04, 2025
N.B. releases latest disability action plan
New Brunswick has released its new disability action plan, which makes numerous recommendations around addressing poverty among that population — with an objective to increase access to justice and “legal decision-making supports.”
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December 04, 2025
CRA lifts moratorium on T4A penalties for trucking sector
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has announced that as of Dec. 4, it has lifted the moratorium on penalties for failing to report fees for services in the trucking sector for the 2025 tax year and subsequent years.
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December 04, 2025
Court dismisses $126K wrongful dismissal claim in trucking assembly case
The Alberta Court of Justice has dismissed a wrongful dismissal claim in a case where a critical assembly error resulted in a trucking unit detachment while on the road.
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December 04, 2025
McLennan Ross to promote 5 lawyers to partner in 2026
Elise Cartier, Michelle Fong, Alex MacDonald, Marco Marrelli and Richard Wong will join McLennan Ross LLP’s partnership in 2026, according to the firm.
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December 04, 2025
CFIA cuts red tape, speeds up plant-pest control changes
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has repealed a number of outdated requirements and updated the Plant Protection Regulations to make domestic plant-pest controls more flexible, moves the agency says will reduce red tape.
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December 03, 2025
Federal judges ‘reluctantly’ take Carney gov’t to court in dispute over pay, judicial independence
In a pay dispute with Ottawa that raises questions about the requirements for judicial independence, the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association (CSCJA) and the associate judges of the Federal Court separately filed Federal Court applications seeking judicial review of the Carney government’s recent refusal to implement the recommendations of an independent judicial pay commission, including its advice that a $28,000 salary boost (on top of mandatory annual indexing) is necessary to keep attracting outstanding lawyers to the federal benches.
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December 03, 2025
Ottawa releases world’s first standard for accessible, inclusive AI design
Accessibility Standards Canada has released what it says is the world’s first standard on accessible and equitable artificial intelligence (AI), aimed at enabling the development of AI systems that are accessible to people with disabilities.