Real Estate
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February 26, 2025
SCC halts use of its ‘X’ account ‘for now,’ citing ‘strategic priorities and resource allocation’
In a move that has sparked controversy in Canada and beyond, the Supreme Court of Canada tells Law360 Canada that “for now” it will no longer use its official account on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, a high-profile billionaire associate of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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February 26, 2025
Women & 2SLGBTQI+ applicants came out ahead as ‘highly recommended’ for federal benches in 2023-2024
Asserting his new administration is “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued controversial executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion policies and hiring at the federal level in America. But in Canada, the most recent demographic statistics on federal judicial appointments and the professional competence and character assessments made by the Trudeau government’s non-partisan judicial advisory committees (JACs) indicate that diversity has gone hand in hand with “merit.”
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February 24, 2025
Get it in writing: Documenting a gifted right of survivorship
With the Supreme Court’s decision in Pecore v. Pecore, 2007 SCC 17 (Pecore), it became clear that joint tenants can have different types of beneficial interests in property. Not only is it possible to hold a full beneficial interest in the property, but a joint tenant may also hold only a right of survivorship, in which case all beneficial interest in the property is held in trust for the other joint tenant until that other tenant passes away.
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February 24, 2025
Ontario election dominated by tariff concerns, but other issues at play: lawyers
With Ontarians on the cusp of electing a new government, the spectre of tariffs on Canadian exports is dominating the discourse of those who are aspiring to lead the province over the next few years — but as lawyers are pointing out, there are many other areas that voters should be focused on before they cast their ballot.
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February 21, 2025
Canada opens door to more people impacted by Sudan’s civil conflict
Canada will resettle more refugees affected by the internal conflict in Sudan over the next two years and increase the spaces available under the family-based permanent residence pathway, the minority Liberal government says.
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February 21, 2025
Under the Ford government: Justice delayed and denied at Tribunals Ontario | Kathy Laird
In December 2024, Tribunals Ontario released its much-delayed Annual Report for 2023/24, and despite some self-congratulatory messaging, the data inside, and on the Tribunals Ontario website, demonstrates that there are serious deficits in the quality, accessibility and timeliness of justice at three of its busiest tribunals — the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB), the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and the Licence Appeal Tribunal — Automobile Accident Benefits Service (LAT-AABS), which hears motor vehicle injury claims against insurance companies.
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February 21, 2025
Feds kick off information-sharing ‘partnership’ between RCMP, big banks aimed at money laundering
Ottawa has launched an initiative this week that the federal government says will “support the permissible sharing of money laundering and organized crime intelligence between law enforcement and Canada’s big banks.”
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February 21, 2025
Seven criminal organizations listed as ‘terrorist entities’ subject to dealings, immigration bans
Canada has listed seven “transnational criminal organizations,” including street gangs and several major Mexican cartels that traffic in fentanyl, as “terrorist entities” under the Criminal Code — triggering immigration and dealings bans in Canada as well as expanding the tools law enforcement authorities have to trace and seize proceeds of crime, the federal government says.
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February 20, 2025
Nova Scotia introduces legislation to resolve property access disputes
The Nova Scotia government has introduced legislation aimed at resolving disputes that occur when property owners seek access to an adjacent property to complete construction and repairs.
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February 20, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal upholds $4M oral sale agreement for land under doctrine of part performance
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling precluding a seller from relying on the Statute of Frauds to void a $4.1 million oral land sale agreement, finding that the seller stood by while the buyer fulfilled its contractual obligations to its detriment.