June 23, 2026
On May 14, 2026, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a notice and request for comment in respect of a suite of proposed amendments to the issuer bid, take-over bid and beneficial ownership reporting regimes in Canada, marking the most significant set of changes in more than a decade.
June 23, 2026
For years, the conversation surrounding mental health in the Canadian legal profession operated under a false assumption: that stress is an equal-opportunity employer. The prevailing narrative suggested that because the practice of law is inherently demanding, every practitioner faces identical hurdles, and therefore, the same prescription of individual “resilience” should suffice to keep teams high-performing and healthy.
June 23, 2026
“What do you call a well-rested lawyer?” “The defendant.” I recently experimented with AI to determine whether it could tell me a legal joke as sort of demonstrated above. It succeeded to a certain extent, but more on that later.
June 23, 2026
Appeal by appellant S.M. against his convictions for sexual assault and assault; cross-appeal by the Crown on the sentence imposed. The complainant alleged that throughout the parties’ marriage there were numerous incidents of non-consensual sexual activity and assaults.
June 22, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aiming to strengthen collaboration and economic opportunities in sectors including energy, critical minerals, nuclear technology, mobility, automotive and electric-vehicle manufacturing, aerospace, agri-food and life sciences.
June 22, 2026
On June 22, the Competition Bureau announced it has obtained “court orders to advance its investigation into Empire Company Limited’s use of property controls in Canada.”
June 22, 2026
The federal government has published proposed regulations to implement recent asylum reforms introduced through the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act (Bill C-12).
June 22, 2026
Imagine opening your mail to find the Government of Canada demanding the immediate surrender of your validly issued citizenship certificate. For a growing number of self-represented individuals who recently secured their status by descent — particularly following the implementation of Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025) — this bureaucratic nightmare is now a startling reality.
June 22, 2026
In part one of this series, we looked at how paragraph 207 of Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16 paves the way for litigation abuse claims, plus how Rule 5.1-1 of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada Model Code of Professional Conduct affects the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision.
June 22, 2026
On June 19, the Government of Manitoba appointed Judge Jerilee Ryle as the provincial court of Manitoba’s first associate chief judge of reconciliation. “The creation of an associate chief judge of reconciliation marks a historic step toward building a court system that better reflects and respects Indigenous traditions, values and lived experiences,” said Justice Minister Matt Wiebe.