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  • June 12, 2026

    OnlyFans content creators, beware: CRA is watching (for income tax and GST/HST compliance, of course)

    OnlyFans is a subscription-based online platform that allows creators to earn income from digital content through monthly subscription fees, tips and pay‑per‑view interactions. Although frequently associated with adult content (sexually explicit), the platform is used by a wide range of creators, including fitness professionals, entertainers and social media influencers.

  • June 12, 2026

    Proposed legislation will ‘strengthen’ ban on goods made with forced labour from entering Canada

    On June 12, the federal government tabled new legislation, An Act respecting the prohibition of the importation of goods produced by forced labour. If passed, the Act would “reinforce Canada’s existing framework to prevent goods made with forced labour from entering the Canadian market.”

  • June 12, 2026

    PM launches $3B strategy to build a more affordable food system

    Prime Minister Mark Carney has launched the National Food Security Strategy, the first of its kind in Canada. The strategy aims to open the market for independent retailers and boost domestic food production for a stronger and more affordable food system.

  • June 12, 2026

    Ahluwalia: More on understanding, identifying and proving coercive control

    Based on the factual findings of the trial judge in Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2022 ONSC 1303, there was overwhelming evidence in that case that the wife was the victim of a long-term pattern of physical and psychological abuse and financial control that constituted coercive control, causing her significant long-term harm.

  • June 12, 2026

    Dispute between neighbours: Defamation and assault with a lawn mower

    In a recent decision arising from a protracted neighbour dispute, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice underscored the importance of civility in maintaining the peaceful enjoyment of property: Frederick v. Spence, 2026 ONSC 3167. As the trial judge observed, “The fabric of our neighbourhoods is enriched when there is respect for the diversity of our neighbours, their property and their privacy.”

  • June 12, 2026

    De Grandpré Chait adds Agnès Pignoly as partner in Montreal

    Agnès Pignoly has joined De Grandpré Chait as a partner in its public real estate law group in Montreal.

  • June 12, 2026

    CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS - Official languages of Canada

    Appeal by appellant from a New Brunswick Court of Appeal judgment which set aside a judgment finding that the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick should be bilingual. On the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Canada, the Governor General appointed Murphy as the 32nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. Murphy was not bilingual, and she did not become so during her term of office.

  • June 12, 2026

    Just cause is not a lost cause, but it is never simple

    As a mediator, I often hear employers and employees talk past each other on summary dismissal. The employer is convinced it had ironclad cause, while the employee is convinced the dismissal was unjustified. They become entrenched in their positions and stop listening.

  • June 12, 2026

    Juridogenic harm: Why Canada’s justice system must radically reimagine sexual assault proceedings

    When a survivor of sexual violence steps forward to engage with the criminal justice system, they do so under the comforting myth of state neutrality — the belief that the law exists to heal a breach, discover the truth and deliver accountability. Yet, for decades, feminist legal scholarship and the lived realities of survivors have told a radically different story.

  • June 12, 2026

    Administrative procedures ‘need not be optimal to be fair’: Alberta court

    Alberta’s highest court has ruled that the province’s public interest commissioner was within his rights to anonymize the identities of witnesses as part of its investigation into the conduct of a school superintendent, saying procedural fairness was met in the case.

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