Personal Injury
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February 21, 2025
Federal Court orders reassessment of glyphosate-based pesticide over new risk evidence
The Federal Court has ordered the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to reconsider its renewal of a pesticide product registration, citing a lack of evidence that the agency reviewed scientific studies highlighting new or heightened risks from its active ingredient.
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February 21, 2025
Under the Ford government: Justice delayed and denied at Tribunals Ontario | Kathy Laird
In December 2024, Tribunals Ontario released its much-delayed Annual Report for 2023/24, and despite some self-congratulatory messaging, the data inside, and on the Tribunals Ontario website, demonstrates that there are serious deficits in the quality, accessibility and timeliness of justice at three of its busiest tribunals — the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB), the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) and the Licence Appeal Tribunal — Automobile Accident Benefits Service (LAT-AABS), which hears motor vehicle injury claims against insurance companies.
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February 21, 2025
Seven criminal organizations listed as ‘terrorist entities’ subject to dealings, immigration bans
Canada has listed seven “transnational criminal organizations,” including street gangs and several major Mexican cartels that traffic in fentanyl, as “terrorist entities” under the Criminal Code — triggering immigration and dealings bans in Canada as well as expanding the tools law enforcement authorities have to trace and seize proceeds of crime, the federal government says.
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February 20, 2025
Class action filed against Air Canada for Halifax crash landing and fire
A proposed class action has been filed in the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court against Air Canada, Provincial Aerospace Ltd. and the St. John's International Airport Authority related to a crash landing in Halifax on Dec. 28, 2024.
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February 20, 2025
Associate joins Lerners
Lerners LLP recently announced that Tyler Macks has joined the firm’s Toronto office.
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February 20, 2025
‘No basis’ for Ontario man’s negligence claim against police services board: Court of Appeal
Ontario’s top court has given clarity to what must be pleaded to advance a negligence action against a police chief and police services board.
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February 20, 2025
Hosel rockets: What are the odds? | Michael Cochrane
It’s a common reaction to something in the news, a bizarre incident occurs, (Plane catches fire, flips over while landing at airport! Everyone lives!), and someone says “Wow, what are the odds?”
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February 19, 2025
Accidental deaths have soared in past two decades, Statistics Canada reports
The number of accidental deaths in Canada more than doubled between 2000 and 2023, increasing 139 per cent to reach 8,631, according to Statistics Canada.
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February 19, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal: Province not immune from road injury claims on forest service roads
The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled that the province of British Columbia does not have immunity from claims arising from injuries on forest service roads, overturning a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a motorcyclist.
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February 19, 2025
Anti-profit views unhelpful to Charter case against long-term care law | Heather Campbell Pope
When I was a young girl in the early ’90s, I would help my father deliver bottled water throughout southern Ontario. Some days we would go to downtown Toronto, where we brought spring water to the backstages of the city’s storied theatres, hydrating the performers and crews. Other times we delivered to airlines and the homes of famous athletes.