July 02, 2026
Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette has appointed Eli Kano as a judge of the Court of Quebec and Amélie Roy as a justice of the peace magistrate, the province has announced.
July 02, 2026
Munir Abdulhadi and Jill T. Wolkowski have joined McDougall Gauley LLP as associates in its Regina and Saskatoon offices, respectively.
July 02, 2026
Clark Wilson has added Jenny Robinson as director of marketing and business development in its Vancouver office.
July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada’s newest judge says his key areas of legal expertise are constitutional and criminal law, including the rules of evidence and procedure, though he has also presided over many civil and administrative law cases in his generalist trial court. Glenn Joyal, a former federal and Manitoba prosecutor and the longtime chief justice of the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench, was elevated by the prime minister to the top court on June 30, succeeding Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin of Alberta, the highly respected constitutional and criminal law litigator, academic and judge who retired from the bench May 30.
July 02, 2026
There is no quick way to make a buck. Not even on the internet. Last year, some person at Canada’s financial market regulator must have registered for a social media account and blew a gasket watching one of the million videos on “How-to-make-a million-dollars-investing-in-the-market-without-breaking-a-sweat.”
July 02, 2026
Well, not exactly a lesson in the language or culture, although a tip of the hat is due to a host of Ukrainian-Canadian lawyers, not the least of whom were my former partner Ron Tomosk and the brilliant jurist John Sopinka.
June 30, 2026
The ranks of Canada’s bench and bar numbered slightly more women than men last year, yet many female jurists still reported gender-based and sexual harassment at work and don’t “feel seen as equals to their male colleagues,” according to a new report from the International Bar Association (IBA). The IBA’s investigation into the state of gender parity in Canada’s legal profession reported on June 30 that women make up 53 per cent of lawyers overall — with half of these working in senior positions as lawyers and partners, among the organizations surveyed.
June 30, 2026
Jeffrey Mak has joined Clark Wilson as an associate in its commercial real estate group in Vancouver.
June 30, 2026
The Government of British Columbia has appointed Clare Jennings as a provincial court judge, effective July 17, 2026.
June 30, 2026
The Ontario government has appointed 27 new justices of the peace to the Ontario Court of Justice, effective July 8, 2026.