The Complete Brief
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December 17, 2025
Feds appoint 2 judges to Nova Scotia Supreme Court
The federal government has announced two judicial appointments to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, according to the Department of Justice.
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December 17, 2025
New Indigenous sentencing court opens in Chilliwack, B.C.
The Provincial Court of British Columbia opened the province’s tenth Indigenous sentencing court on Dec. 11 in Chilliwack. Indigenous courts currently operate in nine other B.C. communities.
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December 17, 2025
Experts warn reading of UNDRIP into B.C. law could cause major legal uncertainty
Legal experts are warning that a landmark B.C. Court of Appeal ruling requiring all provincial laws to be interpreted in line with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) has introduced an unprecedented level of legal uncertainty in the province.
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December 17, 2025
Foreign tax credits: Practical considerations for compliance
Income that is earned abroad by Canadian residents — whether it’s through employment, investments, or business activities — is typically taxed in the country in which it was earned. Canadians will also be taxed on their global income.
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December 17, 2025
WILLS - Formal validity, requirements - Court dispensation from formalities - Revocation
Appeal by the appellant from a chambers judge’s order declaring that two electronic communications from the deceased were fully effective to alter her will by removing the appellant as a beneficiary. The deceased sent a text and an email to her executrix expressing her intention to redo her will and remove the appellant as a beneficiary.
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December 16, 2025
Feds announce Buy Canadian policy now in effect
Canada has announced that core elements of the Buy Canadian policy have been implemented and are now in effect. It said the policy supports workers, strengthens domestic industries and creates a more diversified economy.
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December 16, 2025
Court confirms patients are relevant consumers in prescription-drug trademark confusion analysis
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a trademark injunction against Samsung and Biogen over their BYOOVIZ biosimilar, ruling that patients are relevant consumers in assessing confusion with Novartis’s trademark in BEOVU, a drug used to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
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December 16, 2025
Atlantic premiers release report, recommendations on domestic homicide
Atlantic Canada’s premiers have collectively released a decades-long report on domestic homicides in the region — and hope that it will increase prevention. According to a Dec. 11 news release, the Council of Atlantic Premiers (CAP) — made up of leaders from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and P.E.I. — has released Preventing Domestic Homicides in Atlantic Canada: Looking Back to See Our Way Forward.
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December 16, 2025
Ottawa sanctions four senior Iranian officials for gross human rights violations in Iran
Ottawa has imposed sanctions against four Iranian senior officials who the federal government says “have been involved in gross and systematic human rights violations” in the Islamic Republic of Iran where they “have had a significant role in facilitating and directing repressive policies.”
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December 16, 2025
Ontario appoints 2 new judges
The federal government has appointed two new judges in Ontario, including one to the province’s top court, the Department of Justice has announced.