Pulse
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May 21, 2024
How changes to capital gains could impact stock option compensation
There’s been a lot of discussion around the upcoming increase in the capital gains inclusion rate, announced in the federal budget. What we haven’t heard as much about, however, is the effect these changes could have on the taxation of stock options (optional: from both an employee and employer perspective).
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May 21, 2024
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario: A continuing crisis | Kathy Laird
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) continues to fail Ontarians badly. According to Tribunals Ontario’s most recent Annual Report, the HRTO backlog grew by another 500 applications over the 12-month period covered by the report, despite the fact that it received the lowest number of new applications since 2015-16. The HRTO’s unresolved caseload rose to 9,527, amounting to a three-year backlog, based on its record of closing approximately 3,000 applications a year.
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May 21, 2024
Changing law firms for the worse, yet again | Murray Gottheil
I was speaking to a recent retiree from a Canadian Big Law firm the other day, and she introduced a new law firm concept to me, that of the “practice assistant.” Apparently at her firm they did away with the concept of legal assistants (formerly, a “secretary” for you very old folks) and replaced it with a practice assistant, or PA.
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May 17, 2024
Walrus tsk tsks and other travel alerts | Marcel Strigberger
“The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things. Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.” Lewis Carroll —Through the Looking Glass.
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May 17, 2024
Ottawa announces construction of new federal courthouse complex in Montreal
The federal government has officially announced the construction of a new federal courthouse complex in the heart of Old Montreal.
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May 17, 2024
Work-life balance for the modern lawyer | Jacob Murad
There are many self-help articles and books for every profession to assist with work-life balance, a trait that has never been more essential to service professionals like lawyers. In today’s smartphone society emails are treated more like instant messages, requiring immediate responses than the letters of old. In addition, the computer is always on your person, whether driving, at home or at work; while this allows for remote capabilities, it becomes much harder to “switch off.”
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May 17, 2024
Artificial intelligence, legal profession, irrefutable function of reason | Natalia Bialkowska
To paraphrase Einstein, mankind invented artificial intelligence, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap for its own intellect. Admittedly limited in the use of its own potential, human brains offer a unique function of reason, something accepted in the ever-evolving world of philosophy since the first draft of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
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May 17, 2024
New partner joins Dentons Montreal
Sylvain Bélair has joined the Dentons Montreal office as a litigation and municipal planning partner, a news release from the firm announced.
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May 17, 2024
Women’s Law Association President’s Award winner announced
The Women’s Law Association of Ontario announced that the recipient of its 2024 President’s Award is Anna Matas, a partner at St. Lawrence Barristers, a news release from the firm announced.
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May 16, 2024
Canada sanctions ‘extremist Israeli settlers’ for violence against Palestinians in the West Bank
Ottawa has for the first time sanctioned “extremist Israeli settlers” with dealings and entry bans for “the grave breach of international peace and security posed by their violent and destabilizing actions against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank.”