April 15, 2025
During one of the most hostile periods in recent history for trans rights, the Canadian Bar Association has launched an online course to help legal professionals better serve trans people.
April 11, 2025
One of Canada’s largest construction unions is warning that a major push by governments to build more homes to address the housing affordability crisis could also raise the risk of increased tax fraud in the construction industry.
April 11, 2025
Wildeboer Dellelce has welcomed Daniel Lupinacci to its debt products practice group.
April 11, 2025
Nova Scotia has partnered with a legal resource provider to develop a free app aimed at making it easier to name a power of attorney.
April 10, 2025
Bar organizations are warning Ottawa that a new administrative monetary penalty regime to be applied to legal professionals — featuring penalties of up to $1.5 million for immigration and refugee lawyers determined by federal officials to have participated in clients’ misrepresentations — will be constitutionally challenged if lawyers are not exempted from the proposed regulations, which are expected to come into force later this year.
April 09, 2025
The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a $10-million damages award against the province for misfeasance in public office, ruling that misconduct by government officials did not cause the financial losses claimed by the plaintiff.
April 08, 2025
Canadian financial market regulators from across multiple sectors wrapped up their annual meeting April 8 in Calgary after examining the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems by market participants, among other issues.
April 07, 2025
The B.C. Supreme Court has certified a class action against the province's Public Guardian and Trustee (PGT), alleging that it was negligent and breached its fiduciary duty to children in care by failing to obtain no-cost federal and provincial education benefits for them.
April 04, 2025
The B.C. Court of Appeal has denied the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permission to challenge a ruling that varied a Mareva injunction, allowing an individual ordered to pay over $11 million in a stock manipulation case to use frozen funds for legal and personal expenses.
April 04, 2025
Canada is facing a wave of small business closures amid “economic uncertainty and tariff wars,” partly driven by the number of retiring baby boomer entrepreneurs, according to a new report by consulting firm MNP, which found that nearly two-thirds (64.1 per cent) of Canadian businesses have no succession plan.