Family
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November 04, 2025
Looking at Bill C-223 through a family violence lens
Bill C-223, Liberal MP Lisa Hepner’s private member’s bill, proposes revisions to the Divorce Act. These revisions build on significant changes with respect to the role of family violence in child-related issues made just four years ago through Bill C-78.
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November 04, 2025
B.C. appoints two judges to provincial court
The British Columbia government has appointed Diba Majzub and Megan Olson to the provincial court, effective Nov. 24.
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November 04, 2025
Brain fog and other long COVID problems in the workplace
The pandemic may not be on many people’s radars these days, but those with long COVID continue to struggle with a serious illness that is often misdiagnosed, frequently dismissed and not fully understood.
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November 03, 2025
Ontario pledges over $26M for shelters, family court support workers
The Ontario government is making a $26.7-million investment to protect survivors of gender-based violence.
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October 31, 2025
Split SCC strikes down one-year mandatory minimums for accessing or possessing child pornography
Dividing over what is too “remote” a hypothetical scenario to qualify as “reasonable” when sentencing judges are assessing the constitutionality of a mandatory minimum penalty (MMP), the Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-4 that the one-year MMPs for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional as they would be grossly disproportionate in some hypothetical, but reasonably foreseeable, circumstances.
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October 31, 2025
My critique of Clare’s Law
Clare’s Law is a policy developed to notify a person if their current or ex-partner has any previous history of domestic violence or abusive behaviour. The policy was named after Clare Wood, a British woman who was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend in 2009.
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October 31, 2025
Bill C-12 threatens thousands of business incubator applications under Start-Up Visa program
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is poised to undertake a sweeping overhaul of its immigration application processing through the enactment of Bill C-12, introduced on Oct. 7, 2025. This legislation builds on and expands the priorities originally set out in Bill C-2, granting IRCC unprecedented authority to cancel pending applications across numerous immigration streams.
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October 30, 2025
New Brunswick considering changes to Wills Act
New Brunswick is planning changes to legislation governing wills to give judges more room to interpret them, create greater clarity on the law by getting rid of old rules and allow 16-year-olds to officially document their last wishes.
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October 30, 2025
Court provides detailed analysis of income determination for corporate shareholders
Justice Briana Hardwick of the British Columbia Supreme Court, formerly highly respected family law counsel, released her Reasons in S.D.N. v. E.G.N., 2025 BCSC 1994 on Oct. 10, a treatise on the determination of income of a party who is a majority shareholder of multiple corporations, in the context of a child support application.
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October 30, 2025
Business succession à la Hallmark
I love watching Hallmark romance movies. (Yes, I am a guy.) My wife and former associate, Maureen McKay, does not. They are too sickly sweet for her taste.