July 03, 2026
The fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Justin Turnbull-Greenwood on a Windsor, Ont., sidewalk in October 2019 left a young family shattered and a community searching for answers. The Windsor Star reported that after hearing emotional victim impact statements describing lives “ruined forever,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Kirk Munroe sentenced Mustafa Al-Qaysi to the mandatory life sentence for second-degree murder and ordered that he serve 15 years before becoming eligible for parole.
July 03, 2026
The International Bar Association’s (IBA) recent report marks a meaningful demographic milestone: women now form a majority of the Canadian legal profession. Combined with the historic female majority on the Supreme Court of Canada, it signals progress that deserves recognition.
July 03, 2026
Appeal by the Crown against Herman’s acquittal of second-degree murder; appeal by Herman against his conviction and sentence for manslaughter. Herman was charged with the first-degree murder of the victim, who he was in an intimate relationship with. At trial, Herman put forward two defences: self-defence and provocation.
July 03, 2026
Eleven years ago, elder law scholar Israel Doron described the movement for a United Nations convention on the rights of older persons as a journey to Ithaka, borrowing from C.P. Cavafy’s famous poem. The destination matters, but so too does the path toward it — one marked by setbacks, detours and incremental progress. At the time, an international treaty remained largely aspirational. Yet this year, the United Nations took a historic step forward when a working group began the drafting process. After years of debate about whether older persons required a dedicated human rights instrument, the conversation has shifted to what it might contain.
July 02, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Columbia Premier David Eby have signed a new Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement to speed up construction of major energy and trade corridors. They will also establish a new National Carbon Credit Framework and Oceans Protection Plan.
July 02, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has struck a judicial review application challenging a preliminary Copyright Board ruling in an online royalty tariff proceeding, finding that the challenge was premature because the board’s process had not yet run its course.
July 02, 2026
Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette has appointed Eli Kano as a judge of the Court of Quebec and Amélie Roy as a justice of the peace magistrate, the province has announced.
July 02, 2026
Munir Abdulhadi and Jill T. Wolkowski have joined McDougall Gauley LLP as associates in its Regina and Saskatoon offices, respectively.
July 02, 2026
Clark Wilson has added Jenny Robinson as director of marketing and business development in its Vancouver office.
July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada’s newest judge says his key areas of legal expertise are constitutional and criminal law, including the rules of evidence and procedure, though he has also presided over many civil and administrative law cases in his generalist trial court. Glenn Joyal, a former federal and Manitoba prosecutor and the longtime chief justice of the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench, was elevated by the prime minister to the top court on June 30, succeeding Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin of Alberta, the highly respected constitutional and criminal law litigator, academic and judge who retired from the bench May 30.