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May 08, 2026
The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) has elected K. Jay Ralston as its president for the 2026–27 term.
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May 08, 2026
Spoiler Alert: The following contains plot details from Better Call Saul. Charles McGill, the decorated senior partner in the TV series Better Call Saul, is everything the legal profession tells itself it stands for: principled, authoritative, a guardian of the rule of law. His younger brother Jimmy — the poor, hustling, desperate Saul Goodman — represents everything the profession looks down on. But as artificial intelligence dismantles the gatekeeping function that long justified the legal profession’s self-image, it is worth asking: which one of them is a more accurate reflection of a lawyer?
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May 07, 2026
The Carney government has introduced its second omnibus implementation bill to implement a slew of measures it proposed in the federal budget last November.
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May 07, 2026
There may be a new sheriff in town. The provincial government in Ontario plans to introduce regulations designating transit special constables as “officers” under the Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act, 2025 (RPCISA). This move will grant them sweeping powers to arrest and detain individuals and to search, seize and even destroy property.
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May 06, 2026
New Brunswick has proposed legislation aimed at improving patient safety and “quality of care” through the establishment of an advisory committee, the clarifying of what is meant by “safety incidents” and improving the use of data in tracking trends.
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May 05, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that former Supreme Court of Canada justice Louise Arbour will become Canada’s next governor general. Arbour will become the first former judge of the top court to take on the vice-regal role.
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May 05, 2026
An audit by an extended health benefits insurer can be an extremely invasive and stressful process for a health provider such as a health clinic or health professional. These audits also carry significant potential consequences, including demands for repayment, being delisted by the insurer and complaints to regulatory colleges.
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May 01, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has quashed an appeal in an alleged medical malpractice case, ruling that an order allowing two doctors to be added as defendants did not finally determine their limitations defence and could only be appealed to the Divisional Court with leave.
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May 01, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned an order requiring two insurers to share responsibility for accident benefits, finding that an arbitrator reasonably held the first insurer fully liable after it failed to pay benefits and notify the insurer that would otherwise have been responsible.
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May 01, 2026
Heralding a significant shift in the Canadian legal landscape, the British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected the legal profession’s constitutional challenge to the B.C. Legal Professions Act — legislation that would end more than 150 years of lawyer self-governance and self-regulation by benchers elected from the provincial bar.
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April 30, 2026
Long-term disability claims involving chronic pain and mental health conditions are being denied or subjected to prolonged review at rates that have increased meaningfully over the past several years. The conditions most affected are not those with straightforward, objectively measurable pathology.
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April 29, 2026
B.C.’s attorney general is calling on Ottawa to take immediate action to protect the public — and especially young people — from online harm. In a letter addressed to the federal ministers responsible for AI and Canadian Heritage, B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma says Ottawa should bring in online harms legislation that sets minimum safety standards for youth using the internet as soon as possible.
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April 29, 2026
In 2024, I opened a piece in this publication (Law in the age of AI: Balancing tradition and innovation in 2025) by imagining a courtroom where lawyers consulted artificial intelligence for real-time research, where blockchain verified documents in seconds and where disputes resolved themselves online. I called it “the reality unfolding in our legal system.”
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April 28, 2026
An Ontario man who killed a mother and her three daughters in a car crash has had his appeal dismissed by the province’s top court, turning back his attempt to have Canada’s law on THC levels in the blood while driving declared unconstitutional.
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April 28, 2026
In my last article, I wrote about visualization in law. But visualization is not limited to diagrams or tables. Text itself is visual, and its organization can improve reader engagement and comprehension. This is typography.
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April 28, 2026
When dealing with workplace injuries in Ontario, understanding the process of filing a claim with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is crucial. What is little understood by many claimants is that the WSIB is an insurance company just like any other and can be hard to deal with as an injured individual.
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April 27, 2026
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has upheld a lower court ruling that a dog walker who was severely bitten by a dog in her care cannot claim for damages because under Ontario law, she had “ownership” of the dog at the time of the incident.
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April 24, 2026
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has certified a national class action alleging that the corporate defendants’ medical devices — cochlear implants surgically implanted for hearing impaired patients — were “risky, defective, and require users to undergo invasive revision surgery to have the device removed and replaced.”
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April 24, 2026
The Ontario government has fast-tracked legislation through the provincial legislature that makes significant changes to the province’s freedom of information (FOI) laws, a move observers are calling “undemocratic” and dangerous.
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April 24, 2026
Young lawyers expect to spend their early years learning how to research, draft, negotiate and advocate in court. Those skills are difficult, but at least they are taught openly. A senior lawyer will hopefully demonstrate how to structure a factum, mark up your work and explain what “good” looks like.
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April 23, 2026
Taking its cues from a handful of other provinces, Saskatchewan has introduced legislation that would add associate judges to its Court of King’s Bench.
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April 23, 2026
Deputy Privacy Commissioner Marc Chénier has expressed support for Bill S-5, the Connected Care for Canadians Act, in a statement before the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, according to an April 22 release.
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April 23, 2026
Ontario’s top court has dismissed the case of a man arguing the federal government bore responsibility for the death of his son, who died 33 days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
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April 23, 2026
Appeal by Pederson from a jury verdict dismissing her negligence action against the respondents, Michel and Annie Forget (collectively, Forgets). The action arose after she slipped and fell on the wooden stairs inside their home. Liability was sharply contested.
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April 21, 2026
Harper Grey has added James Dawson and Catherine Wong as associates, the firm says.