June 12, 2026
Agnès Pignoly has joined De Grandpré Chait as a partner in its public real estate law group in Montreal.
June 12, 2026
Appeal by appellant from a New Brunswick Court of Appeal judgment which set aside a judgment finding that the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick should be bilingual. On the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Canada, the Governor General appointed Murphy as the 32nd Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. Murphy was not bilingual, and she did not become so during her term of office.
June 12, 2026
As a mediator, I often hear employers and employees talk past each other on summary dismissal. The employer is convinced it had ironclad cause, while the employee is convinced the dismissal was unjustified. They become entrenched in their positions and stop listening.
June 12, 2026
When a survivor of sexual violence steps forward to engage with the criminal justice system, they do so under the comforting myth of state neutrality — the belief that the law exists to heal a breach, discover the truth and deliver accountability. Yet, for decades, feminist legal scholarship and the lived realities of survivors have told a radically different story.
June 12, 2026
Alberta’s highest court has ruled that the province’s public interest commissioner was within his rights to anonymize the identities of witnesses as part of its investigation into the conduct of a school superintendent, saying procedural fairness was met in the case.
June 12, 2026
There was a late-night gunfight outside Karma Nightclub in St. Catharines, Ont., on Sept. 29, 2019. The Crown had to prove that Jamar Stephens was one of the shooters. It did. A jury convicted Stephens on a multi-count indictment charging him with various offences arising from the shooting.
June 12, 2026
Appeal by Souris Valley Lodging Inc (“Souris Valley”) against a decision of the Assessment Appeals Committee of the Saskatchewan Municipal Board (“Committee”). A 2022 assessment of two hotel properties by the Saskatchewan Assessment Management Agency (“SAMA”) used the modified cost approach which required a determination of the Replacement Cost New Less Depreciation of the improvements and the application of a market adjustment factor (“MAF”) to calculate the value that was then added to the property (“Cost Approach”).
June 11, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada says it will continue to provide the bar, litigants and the public with all its usual services from its historic courthouse in Ottawa while its judges and registry staff undertake a phased move to the court’s temporary facilities across the street during the months of July and August.
June 11, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand energy trade and infrastructure, critical minerals, manufacturing, life sciences and more.
June 11, 2026
The Senate has passed Bill S-215, the National Immigration Month Act, which would designate November as National Immigration Month in Canada to recognize the role of immigrants in the country’s history and development.