Pulse
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October 15, 2025
Is Doug Ford endorsing vigilantism?
Starting around 2020–2021, police departments in British Columbia, especially in Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna reported sharp increases in repeat property crimes, assaults, and random stranger attacks downtown. Police chiefs and mayors described a pattern of people being arrested but released back onto the street within hours.
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October 15, 2025
Ontario courts launch new digital filing platform for civil, family cases in Toronto
Ontario’s trial courts have launched a new digital transformation initiative for the Toronto region.
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October 15, 2025
Danijel Augustinovic joins Hodgson Russ
Cross border banking and finance practice lawyer Danijel Augustinovic has joined the banking & finance practice at Hodgson Russ LLP, according to an announcement by the firm.
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October 14, 2025
Privacy regulators discuss AI, cybersecurity and data risks in annual meeting
Federal, provincial and territorial information and privacy commissioners, along with ombudspersons responsible for access and privacy laws, concluded their two-day meeting in Banff focusing on emerging issues including cybersecurity risks, protection of children online and the use of AI in tribunals, the legal practice and health care.
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October 14, 2025
Four associates join Lerners London office
With offices in Toronto, London, Strathroy and Waterloo, Ont, region, Lerners has signed on four new associates, all of whom will be working in London
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October 14, 2025
Six new judges appointed to the Ontario Superior Court
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser has named six new judges to the Ontario Superior Court, according to a statement from the minister’s office.
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October 14, 2025
Startups: Pay me now or pay me later
“Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."
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October 14, 2025
Car trouble in cottage country
I’ve been a fan of the Chrysler 300 for years. It’s one of those luxo-barges that glides like it’s on rails and thrives at 130 km/h on the King’s highways. Not that I would ever break the law by speeding of course, but that seems to be its happy zone. I’ve had three of these cars — a 2007, a 2014 and, since this summer, a 2022. My 2014 was on its last legs in the spring and I started exploring dealers’ used vehicle inventory.
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October 10, 2025
SCC clarifies when Quebec 10-year ‘extinctive prescription’ period reboots for collecting on judgments
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 9-0 in a Quebec appeal that filing and serving a notice to seize property counts as a judicial application interrupting the 10-year deadline to collect payment on a judgment — thereby restarting for a further 10 years the “extinctive prescription” period (comparable to a limitation period in the common law provinces) that applies to rights resulting from most money judgments under art. 2924 of the Civil Code of Québec.
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October 10, 2025
The joy of tossing stuff every law student has to know
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye… No, this story has nothing to do with the von Trapps.