October 07, 2026
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal majority government will introduce “in weeks” groundbreaking legislation to permit persons with serious medical conditions to consent in advance to medical assistance in dying (MAID), i.e. before they lose their capacity to consent to the procedure. The planned bill would also bar MAID access on an “indeterminate basis” to persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness, he said.
October 07, 2026
Kevin Smith has joined the partnership at McEwan Partners in Vancouver.
October 07, 2026
Hannah L. Siegmund has joined Harper Grey as an associate in its health law and personal injury groups in Vancouver.
October 07, 2026
Scarfone Hawkins LLP has welcomed James Price, Reilly McIlhone, Tania Robinson and Andrew Spelman as associate lawyers in its Hamilton office.
October 07, 2026
Most of the strongest legal candidates I speak with are not looking for a new job.
October 07, 2026
Courts have confronted the problem of anti-Zionism vs. antisemitism.
October 06, 2026
An Alberta lawyer is calling a number of mandatory training and professional requirements from the provincial law society ideologically driven as part of an appeal of a decision that dismissed his constitutional challenge against the regulator last year.
October 06, 2026
Ally Bilenkey has joined Aird & Berlis as an associate. According to an announcement from the firm, she will be a member of the firm’s Indigenous practice group, litigation and dispute resolution group, and the mining, energy and environmental group.
October 06, 2026
Isabelle Montpetit has joined Langlois’s labour and employment law group in Quebec City.
October 06, 2026
B.C. Chief Judge Melissa Gillespie has announced the appointment of Rose Dattilo as a judicial justice.