The Complete Brief

  • September 08, 2026

    Federal judges’ legal tab so far tops $1M as they take constitutional pay dispute to court

    Ottawa has agreed that the federal judiciary reasonably incurred more than $1 million in legal fees and disbursements to participate in the independent quadrennial process that is meant to depoliticize determinations of federal judicial remuneration and avoid pay disputes.

  • September 08, 2026

    Ontario Securities Commission announces new advisory committee

    The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has announced the membership of its newly established Capital Markets Advisory Committee (CMAC), a senior-level advisory forum “created on a pilot basis to provide strategic insight on developments, challenges and opportunities affecting Ontario’s capital markets.”

  • September 08, 2026

    Federal Court awards First Nation $27M over Grand Rapids dam expropriation

    The Federal Court has ordered Canada to pay the Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) $27 million in equitable compensation, finding that it breached its fiduciary duty by approving the 1964 expropriation of a Manitoba reserve for the Grand Rapids dam without securing mitigation or compensation for the dam’s effects on the First Nation’s traditional way of life.

  • September 08, 2026

    New Brunswick to hold consultations as part of Pay Equity Act review

    Workers, employers, HR professionals, unions and various other groups and organizations in New Brunswick are being invited to a series of in-person consultations as part of the province’s review of its gender pay equity legislation.

  • September 08, 2026

    Alberta Chief Justice Ritu Khullar dies

    The Court of Appeal of Alberta has announced that Chief Justice of Alberta Ritu Khullar died on Sept. 3, surrounded by family. She also served as chief justice of the Courts of Appeal of Alberta, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

  • September 08, 2026

    Former Saskatchewan AG Bronwyn Eyre joins CCF as senior counsel

    Bronwyn Eyre will join the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) as senior counsel in mid-October.

  • September 08, 2026

    BD&P adds Gary Sharma as associate in tax group

    Gary Sharma has joined Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP (BD&P) as an associate in its tax group in Calgary.

  • September 08, 2026

    INTERESTS IN LAND

    Appeal by appellants from dismissal of an application for summary judgment striking respondents’ constructive trust claim and cancelling a certificate of pending litigation. The respondents invested in a land development project in 2006 pursuant to participating loan agreements under which they advanced capital to the project in return for repayment and a share of profits if sufficient funds became available.

  • September 04, 2026

    Denial of EI to mothers laid off around maternity, parental leave unconstitutional: court

    Employment insurance rules that deny regular benefits to women who lose their jobs shortly before, during or after maternity and parental leave violate the Charter’s equality guarantee, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled.

  • September 04, 2026

    Manitoba expands rent control throughout province, but raises landlords’ increase limit

    Manitoba’s government will be enacting what it is calling a “historic” expansion of residential rent control coverage in the province — but it will also be raising the annual limit at which landlords can increase rent.