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August 25, 2026
Following the collapse last week of tariff-related talks with the United States, Ottawa unveiled a multipronged package of retaliatory tariffs, loans and employment supports aimed at protecting and supporting Canadian businesses and workers after the Trump administration imposed a 50 per cent U.S. tariff on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods.
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August 25, 2026
A founder. A shareholder. A contractor. An employee. In Pringle v. Zenova Group PLC, 2026 ONCA 549, the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed that these labels are not mutually exclusive and that worker classification turns on the substance of the service relationship, not how the parties choose to describe it, even when they execute the contract.
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August 24, 2026
The Ontario government has announced that it is immediately broadening eligibility for its Protect Ontario Financing Program for workers and businesses in response to the newly enacted U.S. tariffs on a range of Canadian imports.
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August 24, 2026
A $28,000 lump sum salary boost recommended for Canada’s 1,200 judges last year would have cost Ottawa almost $321 million over six years had the government not rejected the advice from an independent judicial pay commission, the Carney government asserts in defending a novel lawsuit launched by the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association (CSCJA) and the Association of Federal Court Associate Judges.
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August 24, 2026
Many employers and professionals assume that the L-1B classification is only for employees who have extremely rare or unique knowledge that very few people in their company possess.
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August 24, 2026
As generative artificial intelligence becomes more capable, law schools at some Canadian and American universities have announced bans on laptops, tablets and mobile phones in classrooms. Supporters say restrictions protect academic integrity and restore focused learning. Critics counter that blanket bans are difficult to enforce, disadvantage some students and avoid the challenge, that of teaching future lawyers to use AI responsibly.
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August 24, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Wigdor v. Facebook Canada Ltd., [2026] O.J. No. 3529 is a significant ruling on termination clauses, employee equity compensation and the minimum standards imposed by the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) and a case that every executive employment lawyer should be following.
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August 21, 2026
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has granted an interlocutory injunction in a dispute over ownership of source code that a startup said it needed to continue operating, finding that the company would suffer irreparable harm from the loss of its business.
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August 20, 2026
The Federal Court has upheld a work permit refusal, finding that the immigration officer reasonably concluded that the applicant had not shown he could adequately perform the role of chief executive officer for his proposed business.
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August 20, 2026
Prince Edward Island is seeking input from residents on proposed regulations that would allow for greater scrutiny of employers who use temporary foreign workers — and penalties for those who break the rules.
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August 20, 2026
Lavery has added two lawyers to its Montreal office: Élyse Le Quoc and Kimberly Vesco.
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August 20, 2026
Law360 Canada is seeking participants for an anonymous survey on career and life satisfaction in the legal profession.
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August 19, 2026
The growing burdens that generative AI misuse in court is imposing on lawyers, litigants and courts are illustrated by a recent Nova Scotia Court of Appeal judgment that threw out a self-represented litigant’s appeal following his use of uncertified AI-generated trial transcripts containing multiple inaccuracies that opposing counsel identified through vigilant verification.
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August 19, 2026
Dropouts can teach lawyers a good deal about personal and professional success.
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August 18, 2026
Quebec’s top court has ordered a self-represented family law appellant to pay $1,000 to his ex-wife plus her legal costs on the appeal, following his “deliberate” citation in court of ChatGPT-generated fake case law, including fictitious quotations.
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August 18, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has set aside a three-month compensation award for an unjustly dismissed Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officer trainee who spent nearly eight years out of the job, ruling that the labour board failed to explain why it limited her compensation.
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August 18, 2026
The real money in executive compensation isn’t in base salary — it’s in equity. Every executive employment lawyer knows this. So, when the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ordered GoEasy Ltd. to pay a dismissed executive for his short-term bonuses and unvested stock units — including prorated equity extending beyond his reasonable notice period — it dealt a major blow to these forfeiture strategies.
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August 17, 2026
Mathews Dinsdale has added Madison Kelly as an associate in its Toronto office.
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August 14, 2026
Ontario has unveiled the framework for a “playbook” on attracting and building data centres in the province and wants to get public input on its recommendations.
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August 14, 2026
After six years of uncertainty following the seminal decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in Waksdale v. Swegon North America Inc., 2020 ONCA 391, the court has provided employers and employees with some much-needed clarification with respect to the enforceability of termination provisions in employment contracts in Ontario.
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August 14, 2026
Emily Elder is a new bilingual (French/English) workplace lawyer and investigator at SpringLaw employment lawyers.
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August 13, 2026
Ontario social assistance programs rules have now changed to ensure that “only people who are living in Canada legally” can receive financial assistance from Ontario Works or the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), the province announced.
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August 13, 2026
Ontario’s top court has issued a decision it says will help to properly interpret termination provisions in employment contracts, but legal observers are saying it creates an environment more favourable for employers than it does for workers.
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August 13, 2026
Speed has dominated how we talk about artificial intelligence. AI can generate an image in seconds, draft a song before lunch or produce a dozen variations of a story without getting tired. AI can make artistic production faster and more accessible, but the arts have never been valuable simply because they are difficult to produce. We value them because someone chose to make them, because a human being noticed something, felt something and found a way to share it. With AI becoming more capable, human skills behind art do not disappear. They become easier to see, and, increasingly, easier to defend, since copyright itself now turns on identifying the human contribution in a work.
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August 12, 2026
Of Canadian businesses affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed 50 per cent tariffs on certain CUSMA compliant goods, 77 per cent have said they expect their revenues to drop, according to a new survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).