November 06, 2025
Bars, lounges, nightclubs, et cetera are public stages for private enterprise; lively, necessary, sometimes combustible places where the safety of staff and patrons is paramount. At the door stands the bouncer: an individual whose presence reassures staff and is said to reassure customers as well. They enforce house rules and must, on occasion, confront disorder.
November 06, 2025
It was 3:45 p.m. and school was out. Kids were gathering around an outdoor basketball court anticipating a schoolyard fight.
November 05, 2025
Budget 2025, tabled by the federal government on Nov. 4, has been met with mixed reactions from organizations and industry groups — with criticism focused on the deficit, health care, employment insurance and climate, and positive views on infrastructure funding and certain tax incentives.
November 05, 2025
Saskatchewan is proposing legislative changes in a bid to modernize the province’s defamation laws, which would include eliminating the “outdated” distinction between libel and slander.
November 05, 2025
Not all injuries can be seen. Emotional distress — often called the “invisible injury” — shows up in many tort cases, especially negligence claims. But proving and valuing psychological harm has always been tricky. Over time, Canadian courts have worked to clarify what counts as compensable emotional distress and how to prove it.
November 04, 2025
The pandemic may not be on many people’s radars these days, but those with long COVID continue to struggle with a serious illness that is often misdiagnosed, frequently dismissed and not fully understood.
November 04, 2025
It is a curious paradox of modern professional life that physical injury is readily compensable and psychological injury is increasingly actionable, yet wounds of conscience remain invisible to the law.
October 31, 2025
Dividing over what is too “remote” a hypothetical scenario to qualify as “reasonable” when sentencing judges are assessing the constitutionality of a mandatory minimum penalty (MMP), the Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-4 that the one-year MMPs for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional as they would be grossly disproportionate in some hypothetical, but reasonably foreseeable, circumstances.
October 30, 2025
As he steps down today from the diversified and expert bench he’s recruited over the past 14 years, Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton says he’s confident about the national trial court’s future, even though the full implementation of the court’s “digital shift” awaits the necessary funding from Ottawa.
October 30, 2025
It was not a dark and stormy night. It was actually a pleasant fall morning, and I probably should have been entering my dockets. But the Halloween spirit was in the air, and it moved me to see what Canadian law has to say about the occult. Read on if you dare. I promise there won’t be anything as frightening as the Income Tax Act.