Pulse
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September 18, 2025
Jérôme Coderre joins Woods’ litigation team
Woods has announced that Jérôme Coderre has joined its team of litigators.
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September 18, 2025
New trial ordered: Appeal Court unclear what trial judge found as fact along causation pathway
The obituary for 27-year-old Arley John Cook of Black Lake, Sask., states that his funeral mass will be held on Dec. 21, 2021, but does not mention the cause of his death. In fact, the cause remains unresolved after the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for Jerrick Stalthanee, who was previously acquitted of manslaughter in Cook’s killing but was later found guilty of the lesser offence of aggravated assault in an unreported Saskatchewan King’s Bench decision.
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September 18, 2025
Google Canada challenges pregnancy discrimination allegation
Midway through the summer, I was minding my own business and having a coffee when a friend forwarded me a National Post article reporting that a woman is claiming wrongful dismissal from Google Canada because of “pregnancy discrimination.”
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September 18, 2025
Eight new lawyers at Monkhouse Law
Employment lawyers Monkhouse Law have signed eight new lawyers to the team.
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September 17, 2025
Kate Costin named partner at Aird & Berlis
Aird & Berlis has a new partner: Kate Costin. According to a statement from the firm, Costin has joined its litigation and construction groups.
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September 17, 2025
Reducing the ‘strikingly high’ commissions of auto brokers in Alberta: Another key to affordability
Two months ago, we explored how unrestrained auto body insurance fraud, evidenced by nine out of 10 hidden cameras and other indicators across Canada, likely impacts auto insurance affordability here in Alberta. This article recognizes another area of auto insurance that could use some serious reform: auto insurance broker regulation.
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September 17, 2025
Joseph Hillier to lead iGaming Ontario
According to a statement from the board of directors of iGaming Ontario, Joseph Hillier is the organization’s new president and chief executive officer, effective Sept. 8, 2025.
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September 17, 2025
Business succession: Team sports in the legal profession
If every family is dysfunctional, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then to fix them, we need to have more than one tool available. And if the type of thinking that fixes problems is different than the type of thinking which created them, then to work with families on business succession we need to look for solutions in places that the families have not considered.
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September 17, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal clarifies rules of evidence for impaired convictions
Impaired driving is a criminal offence throughout Canada. However, the requirements for the Crown to prove impairment differ depending on the province. The Ontario Court of Appeal decision in R. v. Kim, 2025 ONCA 478 involved three individuals who, after appeals to a Summary Convictions Appeal Court, were convicted of operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 80 or higher.
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September 16, 2025
Cabinet says new criminal legislation coming in ‘matter of days’ but federal budget not till Nov. 4
With MPs back in the capital for the fall, the first two days in the House of Commons were busy ones for legislators. On Sept. 16, 2025, Justice Minister Sean Fraser disclosed some of the Liberal government’s immediate plans and timing for new criminal justice legislation, while Finance and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne informed the Commons today that he will deliver a somewhat tardy federal budget on Nov. 4, 2025 — not in October, as Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon stated when he laid out the minority government’s fall agenda at a press conference the previous day.