In-House Counsel
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June 16, 2025
Bill C-5: A legal feeding frenzy at the expense of Indigenous jurisdiction
The federal government’s proposed Bill C-5 — which includes the Building Canada Act — sets a two-year timeline for major project approvals. On the surface, it promises efficiency and economic momentum. But from the perspective of many Indigenous leaders and legal professionals, this legislation signals a looming crisis: the sidelining of Indigenous law, the erosion of meaningful consultation, and a surge of culturally incompetent legal advocacy that risks deepening colonial harm.
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June 13, 2025
Alberta court orders Nova to pay Dow $1.62B more in ethylene dispute
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has ordered Nova Chemicals to pay damages of $1.62 billion to Dow in addition to a previous payment of $1.43 billion for losses related to the companies’ jointly owned ethylene plant in Joffre, Alta.
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June 13, 2025
CBSA to probe whether imported Chinese thermal paper rolls are being dumped or subsidized
The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced that it is investigating whether thermal paper rolls originating in or exported from China and imported into Canada are being subsidized or dumped.
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June 13, 2025
New Ontario employment legislation to combat immigration fraud
On May 28, 2025, the Ontario government introduced Bill 30, the Working for Workers Seven Act, 2025, in part to address growing concerns about immigration fraud, worker exploitation, and labour shortages. This bold initiative aims to modernise the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP), enhance workplace protections, and align immigration intake with real-time labour market demands.
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June 13, 2025
Rupert Murdoch’s family trust: Changing your mind can be hard
The elements of the recent Murdoch family trust dispute are a real-life drama even more interesting than an episode of Succession, thought to be based on the Murdoch family’s trials and tribulations.
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June 12, 2025
Supreme Court to decide if Facebook broke privacy law in disclosing users’ data to third-party apps
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear Facebook’s appeal from a lower court’s ruling that the platform shared users’ personal information with third-party applications on its platform, without providing adequate privacy safeguards or obtaining meaningful consent to disclose users’ personal data — in breach of the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
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June 12, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal overturns development charge, finding municipality breached duty of fairness
The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a chambers judge’s decision in a dispute over a municipal development charge, ruling the City of West Kelowna owed the developer a duty of procedural fairness.
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June 12, 2025
There is no right to party: Ontario court
In the last few years, several cities have been required to respond to unsanctioned large gatherings during university homecoming week or the holidays. The large unsanctioned gathering have, in general, been organized on social media by faceless individuals. Although social gatherings can be a public good, the unsanctioned events have caused chaos.
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June 12, 2025
Federal Court: CHRC complaint dismissal based on settlement offer unreasonable
The Federal Court has set aside the dismissal of a human rights complaint, noting that the decision of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) not to proceed with the complaint in light of a settlement offer was inadequately explained and therefore unreasonable.
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June 12, 2025
Proposed Strong Borders Act must be improved
Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act, introduced by Canada’s Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree on June 3, 2025, proposes significant reforms to multiple pieces of legislation focused on security, immigration and combating the fentanyl crisis.