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August 04, 2026
The Law Foundation of Ontario has awarded the 2026 Guthrie Award, which recognizes exceptional access-to-justice champions, to Kerrie Blaise.
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July 31, 2026
The Law Commission of Canada (LCC) has selected Kaitlyn Blaser, Marie-Pier Jolicoeur and Leanna Katz as Emerging Scholars for its spring-summer 2026 term.
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July 30, 2026
The Law Foundation of Ontario is sending out a call for applications for its Responsive program, which provides grants to non-profit organizations for community-driven initiatives that improve access to justice.
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July 29, 2026
New Brunswick’s Appeal Court has quashed a judge’s decision granting summary judgment to a bank being sued by a veteran lawyer who lost $100,000 after being taken in by fraudsters.
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July 29, 2026
As artificial intelligence grows more capable, human skills are becoming more valuable, not less. For decades, the legal profession around the world has rewarded expertise built on deep research, careful analysis and meticulous attention to detail. Today, AI can perform many of those tasks in seconds, summarizing thousands of documents, identifying relevant case law, drafting contracts, analyzing litigation trends and even suggesting legal arguments.
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July 29, 2026
On July 29, the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) and the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) announced a new partnership to “connect the rising entrepreneurs behind emerging small businesses with pivotal pro bono legal support” through the OBA’s Pro Bono Portal.
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July 23, 2026
The Northwest Territories has new legislation to better support victims of family violence, including laws that formally recognize stalking, give people greater ability to protect themselves and allow victims to sue perpetrators.
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July 23, 2026
Eleanor practised family law. She was good at the technical stuff, but not so good at dealing with clients. Especially vulnerable clients, such as people getting divorced.
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July 23, 2026
The accelerating development of artificial intelligence, both domestically and internationally, provides important lessons for the responsible implementation of predictive policing systems within criminal justice frameworks. This is particularly evident in the governance challenges associated with algorithmic policing technologies, including regulatory lag, surveillance arbitration, symbolic compliance and weak oversight.
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July 23, 2026
Is it time to acknowledge and address the gap in practical education, practical readiness and practical understanding for the public in family law matters?
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July 22, 2026
Let’s be honest: the legal profession was never built with Black people in mind. While progress has been made, too many Black students still walk into law schools, courtrooms and boardrooms wondering if they truly belong. That’s exactly why mentorship is more than guidance; it's resistance.
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July 22, 2026
Public service delivery strikes are routinely framed in popular discourse as localized, binary disputes between individual employers and their workforces. Yet, when these disruptions hit independent delivery networks, the stalled bargaining tables reflect a much broader systemic crisis.
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July 21, 2026
When facing a criminal charge, the person representing us as a lawyer is fundamentally important. For most of us, our lawyer is our guide to the arcane processes and rules of the justice system. She or he tells us what our choices are and has a huge influence on what we decide to do — which in most cases is to plead guilty. More than that, lawyers are often a main source of emotional support for those facing the overwhelming power of the criminal justice system and the huge anxiety that comes with the destruction of our life that being arrested represents.
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July 21, 2026
By now, the problem is well-known. In March, we reported in Law360 Canada that Canadian courts and tribunals had flagged fictitious case citations in more than 111 decisions, a number that has reached 186 as of early July. In a June article, we showed that the consequences for the people who file them are inconsistent. This article asks the third and final question: what are the courts and tribunals themselves doing about it?
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July 21, 2026
Canada’s federal judiciary is an important population whose day-to-day burdens have rarely been studied despite their institutional importance. For all the gravity of their role, we are only now uncovering how Canada’s judges are managing their mental health.
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July 17, 2026
Canada’s government is spending more than half a billion dollars to support the next phase of its decade-long push to eradicate gender-based violence. On July 16, it was announced that Ottawa will be investing $607.4 million into its ongoing National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence — a 10-year initiative where participating provinces and territories sign on to the plan and, in exchange, receive funding to help implement the plan in their respective jurisdictions.
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July 16, 2026
Appeal by appellants from an order dismissing their application to certify a class proceeding arising from Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) enforcement of the Fairy Creek injunction.
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July 15, 2026
Residents and public bodies in Newfoundland and Labrador are being invited to provide feedback as part of a review of the province’s privacy and access-to-information laws. According to a July 15 news release, it is time for a review of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act — something required every five years.
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July 15, 2026
The date July 14, 2026, marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most consequential human rights decisions in Canadian history: Parliament’s 131-124 vote to abolish the death penalty from the Criminal Code in 1976. In a striking historical contrast, less than two weeks earlier, on July 2, 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for executions to resume (Gregg v. Georgia | 428 U.S. 153 (1976) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court), ending a four-year period where the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS (Furman v. Ga., 1972 U.S. LEXIS 169).
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July 14, 2026
Claims for a joint family venture (JFV) arising from a plea of unjust enrichment have become increasingly popular in family law courts in Ontario.
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July 13, 2026
Canada rightly prides itself on having one of the world’s fairest criminal justice systems. Yet one of its greatest shortcomings is revealed not when an innocent person is convicted, but when the government refuses to make that person whole after admitting the conviction cannot stand.
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July 10, 2026
British Columbia’s Racist Incident Helpline is expanding support to those experiencing hate based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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July 09, 2026
British Columbia has announced plans to open two new family law clinics to bring more in-person legal services to survivors of family violence. The new clinics, which will support people in Kamloops and Prince George, B.C., are part of the Family Law Centre network, a provincially funded service that provides free, trauma-informed legal support to people experiencing family violence.
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July 09, 2026
The term “cooperative federalism” is rarely used nowadays. It is a concept that both federal and provincial lawmakers need not work in “watertight compartments.” Each level of government can enact laws addressing specific problems within its own jurisdiction.
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July 08, 2026
Last week, I had a settlement conference scheduled at the Milton, Ont., courthouse on one of my “remaining” litigation files.