April 27, 2026
The Alberta Court of Appeal has dismissed a cannabis company’s appeal, finding it had not shown that claims by the proposed representative plaintiffs over alleged misrepresentations to investors should be barred.
April 27, 2026
Canadian family law has undergone sustained legislative and jurisprudential refinement over the past few decades.
April 27, 2026
In the recent Ontario Court of Justice decision of Ankrah v. Amponsah, 2026 ONCJ 197, Justice Stanley Sherr ordered costs following non-compliance with procedural requirements. The decision reinforces that unreasonable conduct during the course of litigation can lead to negative financial consequences.
April 27, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a decision to keep the daughters of Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman on Canada’s sanctions list, rejecting arguments that the regulations should be read as limiting sanctions to those with a “sufficient link” to Russia’s actions.
April 27, 2026
The federal government has appointed Eric M. Adams as a judge of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta in Edmonton.
April 27, 2026
MLT Aikins has added Jordan Parmar as an associate in its Vancouver office.
April 27, 2026
Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have been working on modernizing food regulation and have made significant changes throughout 2025 and early 2026. This article outlines key updates to food additive, enzyme and supplement approvals and ingredient and labelling requirements.
April 27, 2026
Back when I was practising law, I was so clued out about physical work that I thought that Manual Labour was the president of Mexico. After I became a lawyer, the only work I did with my hands was typing. For many years, I was thoughtful, creative, and strategic. I hired people to do the physical work that I needed done so I could devote myself to what I arrogantly thought were more sophisticated pursuits.
April 27, 2026
For a medical professional, nothing could seem worse than the opening lines of a Toronto Star newspaper report on Nov. 24, 2023, which read, “Dr. Wameed Ateyah, who was the only family doctor in Schomberg, a hamlet north of Toronto, has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of 16 counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual exploitation in relation to 13 female patients.”
April 27, 2026
The Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta published an agreement-in-principle on March 25 outlining an outcome-based methane equivalency agreement. The agreement-in-principle would permit Alberta’s provincial regulatory regime to operate in lieu of federal methane regulations.