August 11, 2026
A prominent legal institute has released a pair of reports showing wide support for the use of protection orders in Ontario, but also raising major concerns about how the current system works.
August 11, 2026
On Aug. 6, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Baker v. Van Dolder’s Home Team Inc., 2026 ONCA 568, which provides much-needed clarity to the enforceability of employment agreement termination provisions in Ontario. The court dealt with the appeal of Baker v. Van Dolder’s Home Team Inc., 2025 ONSC 952 together with a similar case, Li v. Wayfair Canada ULC, 2025 ONSC 2959, resolving an impasse as the trial judges had reached opposite conclusions in their respective interpretation of similar termination clauses.
August 11, 2026
Appeal by AT from order dismissing her application under Protection of Public Participation Act (PPPA) to dismiss DC’s defamation action. DC sued AT after she posted on TikTok that her ex-boyfriend was a “rapist” and later identified DC as that ex-boyfriend.
August 11, 2026
The modern spouse who scrolls through a partner’s phone at 2 a.m. isn’t usually pondering the finer points of the Criminal Code. They are thinking of one thing: “I need to know the truth.”
August 10, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has increased a former Meta employee’s damages by approximately US$4.7 million, finding that contract provisions requiring the immediate forfeiture of unvested restricted stock units (RSUs) upon termination contravened Ontario’s Employment Standards Act.
August 10, 2026
Two years after the Competition Act was amended to revise Canada’s merger review framework, new trends have emerged with significant implications for businesses: proposed transactions are increasingly being labelled as “complex,” facing longer wait times and receiving more scrutiny overall, according to an analysis of Competition Bureau data by Anita Banicevic, a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.
August 10, 2026
A 2024 call to the Ontario bar, Audrey Beaulieu-Lévesque has been named an associate at Massey LLP.
August 10, 2026
A Nova Scotia man is considering legal action after being found “factually innocent” of child pornography offences that resulted from authorities mistakenly linking him to an online username belonging to someone else.
August 10, 2026
Those wanting to hunt certain types of wildlife in Nova Scotia now have the option of obtaining licences through an online portal.
August 10, 2026
Parts one and two of this series established the analytical framework governing prediction-market taxation in Canada. Part three addresses the CRA’s existing enforcement infrastructure as applied to prediction-market participants, the civil and criminal divide under R. v. Jarvis, 2002 SCC 73, gross negligence penalty exposure, voluntary disclosures strategy under IC00-1R7, and practical guidance on how practitioners should advise clients in the current absence of specific CRA direction.