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October 14, 2026
Keeping up with the speed of money, working with limited resources and assisting judges with gaps in their technical knowledge were among the challenges under the spotlight at a recent legal conference about cybercrime and crypto fraud.
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October 14, 2026
Applications by K’ómoks First Nation (KFN) for an extension of time and leave to appeal a British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission) order approving electricity purchase agreements (EPAs), as well as for a sealing order.
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October 13, 2026
Only two women applied for the latest Supreme Court of Canada vacancy, filled by Manitoba’s Glenn Joyal, whose appointment last June restored a 5-4 male majority, ending the high court’s first female majority on the top bench.
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October 13, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has revived a constitutional challenge to a Hamilton bylaw prohibiting tents and sleeping in public parks, finding that the application judge failed to apply the legal tests for the alleged Charter breaches.
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October 13, 2026
The Federal Court has rejected a judicial review application after finding that an arbitrator’s admission of CN Rail’s graphs during closing submissions did not breach procedural fairness in a transportation rate dispute.
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October 13, 2026
Last week, the federal government announced that it plans to introduce legislation to decriminalize advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID), leaving each province and territory to decide whether to permit them. Advance requests are intended to respect autonomy, but when undue influence, coercive control or other forms of abuse are discovered only after MAID has been provided, no remedy can restore the person’s life.
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October 13, 2026
Appeal by Harjit from orders dismissing his civil claim and cancelling a certificate of pending litigation against his late father Swinder’s residential property.
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October 09, 2026
Appeal by appellant from an order registering a New Jersey judgment in Saskatchewan under the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act.
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October 08, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a lawyer’s limitation defence to a negligence claim over a failed property purchase, finding that the buyers’ knowledge that title had not transferred did not establish that they had discovered their claim.
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October 08, 2026
Under the rubric of supporting “economic growth and competitiveness,” the federal Liberal government says its newly introduced “red tape reduction” bill (S-7) will “reduce unnecessary regulatory burden under 31 individual pieces of legislation and their corresponding regulations administered by 11 federal departments and agencies.”
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October 08, 2026
Just weeks after Canada’s government created a chief firearms officer for the country’s northern territories, the Yukon has tabled legislation that would allow for the creation of its own “firearms advocate.” On Oct. 7, Yukon’s government introduced the Yukon Firearms Act — a law being proposed in a bid “to support responsible firearm owners” in the territory.
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October 08, 2026
Megan Walwyn has joined McEwan Partners as an associate in Vancouver.
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October 08, 2026
WeirFoulds LLP has welcomed Valentine Gurfinkel and Jill Snelgrove as partners in its tax and construction practice groups.
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October 08, 2026
Every family lawyer has heard a client say, “I don’t care what it costs. I just want to win.” The recent costs ruling in Perera v. Perera, 2026 ONSC 5206 is what “winning” looks like.
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October 08, 2026
With the rapid progress of artificial intelligence in the legal field, we often hear the same question arise again and again: will AI replace the need for estate planning lawyers? It’s a fair question now that legal tech is able to draft a variety of documents, conduct legal research and review huge volumes of information in seconds.
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October 08, 2026
“Money is a barren substitute for health and personal happiness, but to the extent within reason that money can be used to sustain or improve the mental or physical health of the injured person it may properly form part of a claim.”
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October 07, 2026
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal majority government will introduce “in weeks” groundbreaking legislation to permit persons with serious medical conditions to consent in advance to medical assistance in dying (MAID), i.e. before they lose their capacity to consent to the procedure. The planned bill would also bar MAID access on an “indeterminate basis” to persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness, he said.
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October 07, 2026
The B.C. Court of Appeal has agreed to hear an appeal over whether an Arbitration Act provision that suspends limitation periods when an action is stayed in favour of arbitration applies to contractual deadlines as well as statutory ones.
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October 07, 2026
The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a builder’s bid to cancel a certificate of pending litigation in a dispute relating to alleged non-compliance of home and unfinished drainage works.
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October 07, 2026
Defamation and harassment claims are most often brought by individuals, but corporations may have the same right to seek relief when they become the target of a sustained online campaign. A recent Ontario decision shows how the courts may act to protect a business from an escalating series of online attacks.
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October 07, 2026
Kevin Smith has joined the partnership at McEwan Partners in Vancouver.
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October 07, 2026
Scarfone Hawkins LLP has welcomed James Price, Reilly McIlhone, Tania Robinson and Andrew Spelman as associate lawyers in its Hamilton office.
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October 07, 2026
Appeal by Millstone Homes Inc. (Millstone) from judgment finding an agreement of purchase and sale (APS) for a new home valid, awarding Kevin damages and increasing the prejudgment interest rate.
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October 06, 2026
An Alberta lawyer is calling a number of mandatory training and professional requirements from the provincial law society ideologically driven as part of an appeal of a decision that dismissed his constitutional challenge against the regulator last year.
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October 06, 2026
Manitoba is looking to remove limitation periods for civil claims stemming from intimate partner violence involving “coercive control.” According to an Oct. 5 news release, the province has introduced legislative amendments to its Limitations Act that “would allow survivors to pursue civil action regardless of when the abuse occurred.”