Constitutional
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October 04, 2024
Alberta gives feds ultimatum over changes to Impact Assessment Act
Alberta has provided the federal government with a four-week deadline to remedy what it says are “unconstitutional provisions” in the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) or face a new legal challenge.
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October 04, 2024
Decision in defamation case surrounding 2022 Freedom Convoy protests ‘entirely predictable’: lawyer
An Ontario court has dismissed a defamation action brought against a non-profit organization that researches hate crimes for its alleged actions surrounding the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests, with a judge saying the plaintiffs in the case were unable to bring a valid claim against the group.
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October 03, 2024
School board has statutory obligation to enforce minimum standard of conduct for trustees: court
An Ontario court has ruled against an Ottawa school board trustee who was reprimanded for violating the board’s code of conduct, saying the decision balanced her expressive rights with requirements under the provincial Education Act to enforce a minimum standard of conduct for board members.
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October 02, 2024
N.S. top judge has high praise for appeal court trip to Cape Breton
Nova Scotia’s Chief Justice is calling his appeal court’s historic sitting outside the province’s capital a “great success” — and a learning opportunity for those involved.
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September 27, 2024
Supreme Court rejects leave to appeal three decisions touching tax, labour and human rights
The Supreme Court of Canada this week effectively upheld lower court decisions in three significant business cases, dismissing leave to appeal rulings from the Federal Court of Appeal and courts of appeal in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.
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September 27, 2024
Court upholds dismissal of $1.5M defamation claim against employee in workplace racism case
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a $1.5 million defamation claim brought by a company against an employee who alleged in news reports that he was laid off as a reprisal for asking the company to involve the police in investigating racist threats he faced at the workplace.
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September 26, 2024
Nova Scotia appeal court takes trip to Cape Breton
Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal has left its nest in Halifax and hit the road in a bid to make itself more accessible to the public. For its first-ever venture away from the Halifax Law Courts building, the province’s highest court will sit in the Sydney area, on Cape Breton Island, for the week of Sept. 23.
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September 25, 2024
Class action seeks compensation for alleged abuse of Indigenous students at Alberta school
A proposed Alberta class action alleges that Indigenous students at a school in Bonnyville, Alta., were subjected to frequent physical, psychological and sexual abuse from September 1966 to June 1974.
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September 23, 2024
Federal Court rules Ottawa had no duty to consult in funding cut for Francophone jurists group
The Federal Court has ruled that the federal government was not obligated to consult an organization advocating for French-language access to justice before cutting its core funding under an Official Languages Action Plan.
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September 23, 2024
Appeal court examines police use of informant info in gun case
Ontario’s Court of Appeal has maintained the need for trial judges to consider the “totality” of circumstances when assessing the credibility of information provided by confidential informants in police investigations. At the centre of the Court of Appeal for Ontario's Sept. 4 ruling in R. v. Buffong, 2024 ONCA 660, sits Temaal Buffong, who was arrested at a bus station after police received a tip from a confidential informant that Buffong was carrying a loaded handgun.