Tax
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September 17, 2025
Ford urges Carney to maintain Chinese EV tariffs to protect auto jobs, investments
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Ottawa to maintain a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling it critical to a future trade deal with the U.S. and to the auto sector.
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September 17, 2025
The future of estate law: Human AI prompts for the protection of creative legacies
“Non omnis moriar” (Not all of me will die) — Charles Jennens (1773)
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September 17, 2025
Business succession: Team sports in the legal profession
If every family is dysfunctional, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then to fix them, we need to have more than one tool available. And if the type of thinking that fixes problems is different than the type of thinking which created them, then to work with families on business succession we need to look for solutions in places that the families have not considered.
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September 16, 2025
Cabinet says new criminal legislation coming in ‘matter of days’ but federal budget not till Nov. 4
With MPs back in the capital for the fall, the first two days in the House of Commons were busy ones for legislators. On Sept. 16, 2025, Justice Minister Sean Fraser disclosed some of the Liberal government’s immediate plans and timing for new criminal justice legislation, while Finance and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne informed the Commons today that he will deliver a somewhat tardy federal budget on Nov. 4, 2025 — not in October, as Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon stated when he laid out the minority government’s fall agenda at a press conference the previous day.
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September 16, 2025
Boileau ‘honoured’ to have Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson term extended for two years
On Sept. 16, Minister of Finance and National Revenue François-Philippe Champagne announced the extension of the tenure of François Boileau as the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson.
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September 16, 2025
Federal Court again rules CRA acted unreasonably in CERB redetermination
The Federal Court has ruled that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) acted unreasonably in denying a worker’s eligibility for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, marking the second time the agency’s handling of the same claim has been overturned.
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September 15, 2025
Natalie Goulard joins Spiegel Ryan’s tax litigation team
Spiegel Ryan has welcomed Natalie Goulard as a partner in its tax litigation and dispute resolution team.
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September 12, 2025
Trade tribunal launches final probe into dumped, subsidized Chinese thermal paper
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has launched a final inquiry into thermal paper imports from China after the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) made a preliminary finding that the product is being subsidized and dumped in Canada.
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September 12, 2025
Business succession: Laughing about death, taxes and other sad stuff
My wife, Maureen McKay, is the love of my life, so it is only natural that I want to be sure that she will be well taken care of when I pop off. And since I am now 70 years old and she is quite a bit younger than I am, it only makes sense that I would try to put some things in order to make it easier for her to go shopping when I nod off for the last time.
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September 10, 2025
New OBA president hopes to bring ‘more conversational experience’ to position
The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) has a new leader at its helm. Katy Commisso took over the top job from former president Kathryn Manning at the beginning of September after serving a term as the first vice-president of the OBA, which is the professional association for Ontario's lawyers, judges and law students. She will serve for the 2025-26 term. Commisso, a native of Burlington, Ont., said she did not grow up wanting to be a lawyer.