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.
April 27, 2026
The federal government has announced more than $8.6 million in funding over two years for 24 projects to develop services for Black youth, victims and survivors of crime, and individuals navigating the criminal justice system.
April 27, 2026
Appeal by Mossman from an order that dismissed his conviction appeal, allowed the Crown’s appeal from his acquittals, and remitted several counts for retrial. The appeal concerned whether secondary liability under ss. 121(1) of the Environmental Management Act and 78.2 of the Fisheries Act required the Crown to prove that Mossman, a director, officer, and mine manager of Banks Island Gold Ltd. (BIG), knew of the circumstances surrounding BIG’s commission of various environmental offences.
April 27, 2026
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has upheld a lower court ruling that a dog walker who was severely bitten by a dog in her care cannot claim for damages because under Ontario law, she had “ownership” of the dog at the time of the incident.
April 24, 2026
Prosecutors are not required to prove precisely when a sex assault occurred, but rather that it happened “on or about” a certain time — unless the timing of the offence is essential to the case or crucial to the defence, says Canada’s highest court.
April 24, 2026
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has certified a national class action alleging that the corporate defendants’ medical devices — cochlear implants surgically implanted for hearing impaired patients — were “risky, defective, and require users to undergo invasive revision surgery to have the device removed and replaced.”
April 24, 2026
The Federal Court has upheld a decision allowing a plaintiff to amend its pleading despite breaching a litigation undertaking, emphasizing that the remedy for such a breach is discretionary.