Natural Resources
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October 20, 2025
The Major Projects Office, Bill C-5 and the limits of Indigenous ‘advisory’
Bill C-5 received royal assent in June 2025. The process was swift and not without criticism. Now, the implementation of this new legislation, the Building Canada Act, raises more questions and concerns about what is lost at the sake of expediency.
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October 17, 2025
Ontario's new mining development system aims to halve approval times
The Ontario government has officially launched a new system aimed at streamlining mining development.
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October 15, 2025
Export firm fined $125K for ignoring environmental protection compliance order
A Quebec court has imposed a $125,000 fine on an export company after it failed to comply with an environmental protection compliance order, according to a release.
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October 14, 2025
B.C. forest sector urges Ottawa to act as U.S. tariffs take effect
The British Columbia forest sector is calling on Ottawa to act urgently to ease the strain on the industry as an additional 10 per cent U.S. tariff on softwood lumber takes effect.
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October 10, 2025
SCC clarifies when Quebec 10-year ‘extinctive prescription’ period reboots for collecting on judgments
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 9-0 in a Quebec appeal that filing and serving a notice to seize property counts as a judicial application interrupting the 10-year deadline to collect payment on a judgment — thereby restarting for a further 10 years the “extinctive prescription” period (comparable to a limitation period in the common law provinces) that applies to rights resulting from most money judgments under art. 2924 of the Civil Code of Québec.
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October 10, 2025
Marineland belugas deserve legal protection, not posturing and politics
In 2019, Canada enacted groundbreaking federal law banning the capture and breeding of whales, dolphins and porpoises for entertainment, the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, also known as the “Free Willy” bill, whereby Canadian facilities are not allowed to hold, breed or import whales and dolphins.
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October 09, 2025
Adverse possession, municipal parkland: The implications of Kosicki v. Toronto
In a closely divided 5-4 ruling in Kosicki v. Toronto (City), 2025 SCC 28, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that municipalities and other public bodies in Ontario are not immune to adverse possession claims, unless the land in question is explicitly protected by legislation.
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October 08, 2025
PM wraps Washington visit focused on trade, Arctic security
Prime Minister Mark Carney concluded a working visit to Washington, D.C. on Oct. 8 that included a White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump focused on “key priorities in trade and defence.”
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October 08, 2025
Fraser calls provinces’ demand to scrap Ottawa’s SCC arguments on notwithstanding clause ‘untenable’
Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser has pushed back against the demands of five premiers that Ottawa should drop its novel arguments at the Supreme Court that there are substantive constraints on governments’ powers to invoke the Charter’s s. 33 “notwithstanding” clause — arguments that those five provinces contend “represent a complete disavowal of the constitutional bargain that brought the Charter into being” in 1982.
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October 07, 2025
Energy experts Antonopoulos, McLaughlin join Osler in Calgary
Osler has welcomed energy law lawyers George Antonopoulos and Mauryah McLaughlin to its national energy group. The new partners will be based in Calgary.