In-House Counsel
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September 18, 2025
Agreed changes without fresh consideration: Reconciling contract law, constructive dismissal
In a recent mediation, a lawyer raised an intriguing point regarding mid-employment contract changes.
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September 18, 2025
Google Canada challenges pregnancy discrimination allegation
Midway through the summer, I was minding my own business and having a coffee when a friend forwarded me a National Post article reporting that a woman is claiming wrongful dismissal from Google Canada because of “pregnancy discrimination.”
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September 18, 2025
Eight new lawyers at Monkhouse Law
Employment lawyers Monkhouse Law have signed eight new lawyers to the team.
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September 17, 2025
CBA offers Parliament ‘better way’ forward to reform beleaguered immigration and refugee system
As parliamentary debate resumed yesterday over the Liberal government’s proposed ad hoc fixes for Canada’s creaky immigration and refugee system, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is offering legislators a detailed roadmap for wholesale modernization that charts an effective, fair and constitutionally sound way forward, members of the immigration bar say.
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September 17, 2025
The future of estate law: Human AI prompts for the protection of creative legacies
“Non omnis moriar” (Not all of me will die) — Charles Jennens (1773)
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September 17, 2025
Business succession: Team sports in the legal profession
If every family is dysfunctional, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then to fix them, we need to have more than one tool available. And if the type of thinking that fixes problems is different than the type of thinking which created them, then to work with families on business succession we need to look for solutions in places that the families have not considered.
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September 16, 2025
Cabinet says new criminal legislation coming in ‘matter of days’ but federal budget not till Nov. 4
With MPs back in the capital for the fall, the first two days in the House of Commons were busy ones for legislators. On Sept. 16, 2025, Justice Minister Sean Fraser disclosed some of the Liberal government’s immediate plans and timing for new criminal justice legislation, while Finance and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne informed the Commons today that he will deliver a somewhat tardy federal budget on Nov. 4, 2025 — not in October, as Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon stated when he laid out the minority government’s fall agenda at a press conference the previous day.
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September 16, 2025
Think tank calls for focused industrial policy to tackle Canada’s economic challenges
Montreal-based think tank Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) is calling on the federal government to pursue an industrial policy to tackle the economic challenges the country is facing, according to a report released on Sept 16.
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September 16, 2025
Prairie businesses can apply for Regional Tariff Response Initiative funding, feds announce
To assist Prairie businesses in a “shifting trade environment,” the federal government is now accepting applications for the Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) from businesses and organizations in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
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September 16, 2025
Appealing a lower court order: Five top strategic considerations
Because they have already lost at the lower court level, an appellant in Ontario bears the sizable burden of having to persuade a panel of at least three judges that the previous judge or tribunal fell into error. This is no easy feat, and consequently civil appeals present significant challenges for the appellant.