February 12, 2026
“Bold” but “properly calibrated” judicial action, rather than reflexive judicial reticence and reserve, is sometimes necessary to preserve public confidence in the justice system — a confidence on which the foundational principle of judicial independence depends, says Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal.
February 12, 2026
Manitoba’s government is furthering its efforts to protect women and gender-diverse residents from violence through its funding of a recently launched community program.
February 12, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal is calling for papers to mark the 50th anniversary of the late Bertha Wilson’s appointment to the court as part of a symposium honouring the woman who went on to become Canada’s first female Supreme Court justice.
February 11, 2026
Appeal by the appellant from trial judgment ordering unequal division of property and support order in a family law case. The parties agreed to equal division of much of their family property, except for the increase in value of the shares of some companies through which the respondent ran his businesses.
February 10, 2026
Back in the old days, lawyers and clients thought “going to family court” was a sensible choice for separating spouses. Clients hired lawyers, exchanged court documents, filed motions, spent months fighting about disclosure and interim orders and drafted plenty of briefs. Clients dutifully paid their bills … for two to five years, and for tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
February 09, 2026
So, there comes a moment in practice when a lawyer realizes that most client anxiety does not arise from the law itself. It comes from not knowing what is about to happen, how bad it will be and whether anyone is pretending otherwise.
February 06, 2026
B.C. has introduced a new centralized virtual counter service for people to receive free help and advice in navigating the court system from anywhere in the province.
February 06, 2026
My friend Jason asked me — casually, the way people do when they are pretending they are not carrying a question around like a stone in their pocket — “Hodine, why I don’t write an article about women having more rights in family court.” He didn’t ask it like an accusation. He didn’t frame it as an argument. He asked it the way people ask things they’ve heard too many times to ignore.
February 05, 2026
For high-net-worth persons, a blossoming opportunity has sprung to the surface to obtain U.S. permanent residence by signing over a lot of money to the U.S. government without having to prove or demonstrate skills, education, a job offer or a qualifying family relationship to a U.S. citizen.
February 04, 2026
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is asking the federal government for a greater say in judicial appointments and has threatened to withdraw funding to support any new judicial appointments in the province unless a more collaborative process is set up. In an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Smith also said Ottawa needs to relax bilingualism requirements for judicial appointments “that do not reflect Canada’s broader linguistic diversity in Western Canada and alienates Albertans and western Canadians alike.”