In-House Counsel
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May 26, 2025
Procurement Ombud encourages use of negotiated RFPs for government contracts
The Office of the Procurement Ombud has released a new “knowledge deepening and sharing study” on the benefits of negotiated requests for proposals (NRFPs) for government contracts, highlighting it as an “underutilized tool.”
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May 23, 2025
CSA announces proxy delivery relief if postal service suspended
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has announced that regulators will offer temporary relief from current requirements to deliver proxy-related materials for shareholder meetings if a Canada Post strike completely suspends postal service.
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May 23, 2025
B.C. judge rejects proposed class action over alleged mall privacy breaches by Cadillac Fairview
A proposed class action against Canadian mall owner Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd., alleging the covert collection of biometric data from visitors to its shopping centres, has been denied certification by the British Columbia Supreme Court.
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May 23, 2025
At a fork in the road: Politics and the Canadian regulatory landscape
To say we are in a new era of regulatory enforcement is beyond understatement. These days, in almost every realm, the Canadian regulatory world has been transformed.
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May 23, 2025
A different approach to professional success
By and large, most formulas for professional success emphasize some kind of behavioural change or challenge. “Do more of this, and less of that.” Humans love the appeal of a dare or challenge, and we’re always ready to sign up and lay out cash for the next big thing that will make us thinner, stronger or more profitable.
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May 22, 2025
Alberta Court maintains financing statement registration for contingent claims citing ‘broad’ GSA
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has held that contingent claims arising from ongoing litigation were sufficient to allow a creditor’s financing statement registration to be maintained under the Personal Property Security Act (PPSA), citing a broadly worded general security agreement (GSA).
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May 22, 2025
Common law’s residual role in setting aside international arbitral awards
In common law systems, statutory interpretation is never a purely textual exercise. Canada implements the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (Model Law) through the International Commercial Arbitration Act, 2017 (ICAA). This article explores that tension in Canadian arbitration law, where parties have invoked residual common law principles to resist enforcement or set aside awards outside the grounds listed in Article 34 of the Model Law.
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May 22, 2025
Proposed $21-million class action settlement reached for victims of Ottawa doctor
The end of a long-running class action against a former Ottawa family doctor who sexually abused and secretly filmed numerous female patients is potentially in sight with the announcement of a proposed $21-million settlement.
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May 22, 2025
Samantha Lucifora, Miguel Mangalindan promoted at Monkhouse
Samantha Lucifora and Miguel Mangalindan are now senior partners at Monkhouse Law.
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May 21, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal dismisses constitutional challenge to provincial spill regulations
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal launched by three major railways challenging the constitutionality of provincial spill regulations applied to interprovincial railways transporting crude oil and diluted bitumen.