January 16, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada began hearings in its very busy winter session this week, which features a potentially watershed constitutional appeal and the surprise announcement that Justice Sheilah Martin, the court’s senior western judge, will retire next spring.
January 16, 2026
Canada’s privacy commissioner is expanding a current investigation into X Corp., the company that operates social media platform X, after reports that the platform’s chatbot is “being used to create explicit images of individuals without their consent.”
January 15, 2026
A major law reform agency is saying that Ontario’s system for protection orders needs urgent reform to better prevent intimate partner and family violence in the province.
January 15, 2026
I have taught professionalism for years, starting at the old Bar Admission course, at two law schools and on an ad hoc basis to articling students and juniors. I tell all of them same thing on the first day: everything you need to know about professional responsibility can be summed up in two sentences.
January 13, 2026
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Sheilah Martin, a former University of Calgary law dean and one of the apex court’s criminal and constitutional law experts, will retire May 30, 2026, after working at the high court for more than eight years.
January 13, 2026
Ontario’s top court has dismissed a challenge of a judge’s decision to amend a contingency fee agreement, underscoring a court’s role in protecting vulnerable clients in legal proceedings.
January 13, 2026
A Federal Court judge has ordered Veteran Affairs Canada (VAC) to reconsider its refusal to pay for plastic surgery for a reserve force veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other serious health repercussions triggered by the sexual trauma she experienced while in the military from 1991 to 1994.
January 12, 2026
Police in Winnipeg have been given almost a quarter of a million dollars to put towards a “long-range, less lethal” weapon the force describes as a tool to gain “pain compliance” through “blunt force trauma.”
January 06, 2026
The Civil Rules Review (CRR) was launched in 2024 as a joint initiative of the chief justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the province’s Attorney General. The CRR’s mandate was to propose wholesale reforms to the Rules of Civil Procedure (the Rules), which were last overhauled in 1985, so that the civil justice system is more accessible and to reduce costs and delays.
December 24, 2025
Law360 Canada will be on a publishing hiatus from Dec. 25, 2025, to Jan. 2, 2026. We wish you a happy holiday and all the best for the new year.