Real Estate
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June 25, 2025
Court dismisses real estate company’s motion to stay receivership order
The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed a motion to stay a receivership order stemming from the Ontario Securities Commission’s investigation into companies in the real estate business.
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June 25, 2025
B.C.’s Commercial Liens Act: Enhancing consistency, efficiency
The Commercial Liens Act (Act) in British Columbia will come into effect on June 30, 2025. The new legislation is designed to reduce risks and costs for service providers who supply labour or materials for (i) restoring, improving or maintaining the condition or properties of goods, (ii) storing goods, (iii) transporting, carrying or towing goods, or (iv) salvaging goods, by implementing substantial changes to the law governing service-related liens.
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June 24, 2025
Have your voice heard: Take Law360 Canada’s 2025 survey on lawyer satisfaction
Law360 Canada is seeking participants for an anonymous survey on career and life satisfaction in the legal profession. Take the survey in English or French.
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June 23, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal slashes $700K costs award in rental dispute due to ‘chilling effect’
The Ontario Court of Appeal has significantly cut a costs award in a hard-fought landlord-tenant dispute on Toronto’s tony “Mink Mile,” finding the legal fees were “concerning” and the motion judge’s high tally could contribute to a chilling effect on litigation.
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June 20, 2025
OBA awards gala celebrates service to the legal profession and community at large
Toronto lawyer Angela Ogang had a good excuse not to attend the Ontario Bar Association’s annual awards gala June 19: She’d given birth to her baby the night before.
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June 19, 2025
U.S. tariffs will flatline Canadian GDP growth in second quarter, says PBO
The federal Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux is predicting that Canada’s real GDP growth will be flat for the April-to-June quarter (Q2) of 2025, as the effects of pre-tariff stockpiling unwind and new U.S. trade measures begin to weigh on Canadian exports.
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June 19, 2025
Ottawa quietly reboots Trudeau-era cybersecurity bill passed by Commons but makes changes
The Carney Liberal government has quietly rebooted — with changes — a Trudeau-era cybersecurity bill that proposed new offences, large administrative monetary penalties (AMPs), gags and broad “compliance orders” for businesses, with the stated aim of defending critical infrastructure in the federally regulated sectors of finance, telecommunications, energy and transportation from the rising tide of electronic espionage, ransomware and other “malicious cyber activity.”
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June 18, 2025
Stewart McDannold Stuart rebrands as SMS LAW
Victoria-based law firm Stewart McDannold Stuart is now SMS LAW.
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June 17, 2025
Canada ramps up sanctions against Russia for Putin regime’s ‘continued aggression’ against Ukraine
Canada announced new sanctions against Russia as leaders of the G7 Western countries met for a second day in Kananaskis, Alta.
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June 17, 2025
CBA backs constitutional amendment to constrain federal use of Charter’s ‘notwithstanding’ clause
In a rare move, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) has thrown its support behind a Senate public bill (S-218), which proposes a constitutional amendment to restrict and structure the discretion of the federal government to breach Charter rights via the contentious s. 33 “notwithstanding” clause.