Labour & Employment
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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.
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March 03, 2026
OECD updates permanent establishment guidance for remote and hybrid work
On Nov. 19, 2025, the Organization for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD) released updates to the Model Tax Convention and its commentary, introducing an express analytical framework for assessing when a remote employee’s home office may constitute a “permanent establishment” (PE) of their employer in another jurisdiction. These changes are particularly relevant for organizations with cross-border remote or hybrid work arrangements.
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March 03, 2026
BINDING ARBITRATION - Jurisdiction of the court to review - Standard of review - Reasonableness
Appeal by Purolator Canada Inc. from reviewing judge’s decision that the labour arbitrator’s award was reasonable. The issue on this appeal arose out of a judicial review of a labour arbitration grievance award. The arbitrator found that a COVID-19 mandatory vaccination policy imposed on a unionized workforce by its employer, Purolator, which remained in place between Jan. 1, 2022, and May 1, 2023, was unreasonable as of June 2022.
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March 03, 2026
OpenAI and the Tumbler Ridge tragedy
Tumbler Ridge is a district municipality located in northeastern British Columbia, established in 1981 as a planned community to support coal mining development. The town has a population of around 2,500 and is notable as Canada's first UNESCO Global Geopark, designated in 2014 due to its significant paleontological discoveries, including dinosaur fossils.
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March 02, 2026
Canada, India agree to enter into numerous economic partnerships
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that Canada and India will enter into a new Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) by the end of this year, along with signing five memorandums of understanding and launching planning initiatives following his visit to New Delhi this week.
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March 02, 2026
PBO’s analysis of immigration plan forecasts flat population growth in 2026
Canada’s population won’t grow this year under the federal government’s current immigration levels plan, but the number of temporary residents in Canada remains at historically high levels, according to the latest analysis by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), which provides independent economic and financial analysis to Parliament.