The Complete Brief
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June 30, 2025
LSO awards honorary degrees to six distinguished individuals
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) honoured six individuals with a degree of doctor of laws, honoris causa (LLD) at the June Call to the Bar ceremonies, in recognition of their achievements in the legal profession, the rule of law or the cause of justice.
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July 02, 2025
Smart & Biggar promotes 10 lawyers, 3 to principal roles
Smart & Biggar has announced the promotion of 10 team members, including Dominique Lambert, Artemis Lai and Victoria Townsend, who have all been elevated to principal.
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July 02, 2025
TRUSTS - Breach of trust - Capacity to hold interest in property as a trustee
Appeal by appellants from lower court decision finding they were liable to respondents for substantial sums of money for breach of two trusts and from order to pay punitive damages and special costs.
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July 02, 2025
The future of coerced debt relief in Ontario
Ontario is preparing to launch consultations on a new law aimed at severing the financial ties between human trafficking survivors and their abusers (The Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act).
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July 02, 2025
Ottawa announces removal of federal exceptions in Canadian Free Trade Agreement
In its bid to promote domestic trade, Canada is removing all 53 remaining federal exceptions in the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), Transport and Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced.
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July 02, 2025
If you love me, if you ever loved me: pay me faster
I pay my bills quickly. It is my way of telling the people with whom I deal that I value their services. I want my suppliers to remember that I am the guy who pays them the same day I receive their invoice. I figure there will be days in January when the furnace stops furnacing, or days in July when the air conditioner stops conditioning.
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June 30, 2025
Canada imposes tariff rate quotas on steel imports from non-FTA countries
Canada has announced new tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for steel mill products imported from non-free trade agreement (FTA) partner countries, as part of an effort to curb the impact of steel being diverted to Canada as a result of U.S. tariffs.
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June 30, 2025
G7 countries reach accord for ‘side-by-side’ system on global minimum tax
Two weeks after their summit in Kananaskis, Alta., G7 countries have issued a statement endorsing an international “side-by-side” system that would exempt U.S. multinational corporations from two global minimum tax rules, helping to de-escalate growing tax tensions with the world’s largest economy.
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June 30, 2025
Quebec regulation for complaint processing coming into effect July 1
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has announced that the regulation respecting complaint processing and dispute resolution in the financial sector, first published on Feb. 15, 2024, will be coming into effect on July 1.
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June 30, 2025
Saskatchewan furthering commitment to national plan tackling gender-based violence
Saskatchewan is providing more than half a million dollars to several initiatives as part of the province’s ongoing rollout of a national plan to eradicate gender-based violence — with a chunk of the funds going toward an event promoting the “exchange of ideas” between lawyers, law enforcement and advocates.