April 24, 2026
On April 2, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released a landmark ruling in Nuchatlaht v. British Columbia, 2026 BCCA 137. The court granted the Nuchatlaht Aboriginal title to the entirety of the area claimed in the case — approximately 210 square kilometres of Nootka Island off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
April 24, 2026
Requests for medical information often sit at the centre of workplace accommodation disputes. Employers need enough information to understand an employee’s limitations and determine whether accommodation is possible. At the same time, medical information is highly private, and arbitration boards are careful to ensure that requests do not go further than necessary.
April 23, 2026
Organizations across Canada are increasingly turning to anonymization as a way to extract value from data while managing privacy risk. Done correctly, anonymization can place a dataset outside the reach of Canada’s private-sector privacy legislation, freeing organizations to use the data for analytics, product development and operational purposes without the obligations that would otherwise govern the handling of personal information.
April 23, 2026
In corporate structures, the company is its own legal person, with its own assets, liabilities and rights of action. That separation is what gives shareholders the benefit of limited liability, but it also means they cannot simply step into the corporation’s shoes when something goes wrong.
April 22, 2026
Ontario appellate courts continue to hold that civil conspiracy claims cannot be used to circumvent corporate separateness. In Cervantes v. Pizza Nova Take Out Ltd., 2026 ONSC 713 (Cervantes), the Ontario Divisional Court reaffirmed that an agreement is the core element of a civil conspiracy claim.
April 21, 2026
British Columbia has announced it is opting into a temporary federal measure allowing rural employers to retain low-wage temporary foreign workers beyond the federal 10 per cent cap, according to a release issued April 20.
April 21, 2026
As legal counsel for all types of nurses, including nurse practitioners, registered nurses and registered practical nurses, we are frequently retained to provide assistance in responding to complaints filed with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO). Although the regulatory framework governing complaint matters is complex, the following summarizes the core information that nurses should be aware of in order to navigate the process effectively.
April 21, 2026
A lot has been written about the Project Freeway Inc. v. ABC Technologies Inc., 2025 ONCA 855 case since the Ontario Court of Appeal rendered its decision in December 2025 dismissing the appeal of Justice Jana Steele’s trial decision in the matter.
April 20, 2026
The federal government has directed the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) to investigate whether a surge in imports of certain wood products is harming or threatening to harm domestic manufacturers.
April 20, 2026
This month, the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) launched its Rule of Law campaign in which local lawyers host discussions in their communities to help the public better understand the rule of law and its everyday importance to democracy.