Personal Injury

  • November 07, 2025

    Power at the door: Bouncers and the use of force, part two

    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

    Ontario releases 2025 fall economic statement, aims to invest over $200 billion

    In what the province is calling its most ambitious capital plan to date, Ontario has announced more than $201 billion in investments over 10 years through its 2025 fall economic statement, focusing on infrastructure, trade diversification and tax reforms to shield the province from economic challenges such as U.S. tariffs. More than $33 billion is allocated for 2025-26.

  • November 06, 2025

    Power at the door: Bouncers and the use of force

    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

    A veteran correctional officer’s take on personal self defence, part two: Developing the mindset

    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

    Industries, organizations weigh in on increased deficit, federal cuts in Budget 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 introduces legislation to modernize defamation laws

    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legislative changes in a bid to modernize the province’s defamation laws, which would include eliminating the “outdated” distinction between libel and slander.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

    Emotional distress: The ‘invisible injury’ in tort law

    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

    Brain fog and other long COVID problems in the workplace

    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

    When the soul suffers: Why moral injury should be compensable in law

    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

    Split SCC strikes down one-year mandatory minimums for accessing or possessing child pornography

    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.