Business

  • July 30, 2026

    Gig workers: How to use voluntary disclosure for unreported income to avoid 50% penalties

    This is part of a three-part Law360 Canada series on taxation of the platform economy. Part one covered Canada’s platform-reporting regime under Part XX of the Income Tax Act. Part two covered income characterization and GST/HST compliance for platform earners.

  • July 30, 2026

    Law Foundation of Ontario opens 2026 call for applications to access to justice grant program

    The Law Foundation of Ontario is sending out a call for applications for its Responsive program, which provides grants to non-profit organizations for community-driven initiatives that improve access to justice.

  • July 30, 2026

    Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program reset: Applicant pathways, employer-led workforce selection

    Ontario has entered a new phase in provincial immigration. In June 2026, the province amended the regulations governing the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program, closed the former stream structure, and introduced the Ontario Workforce Priority stream as the first phase of a broader redesign intended to align nominations more closely with labour-market demand, employer retention needs and program integrity.

  • July 30, 2026

    Pushing legal boundaries: How to run your own life

    Over the years, we have become numbed by the avalanche of bad news that rolls over our heads every day, gratuitously disseminated by various authorities and their echo chambers in the media. We can’t escape it — everywhere we turn, danger lurks. The consistent message is, “We’re all gonna die! Everybody panic!”

  • July 30, 2026

    Unresolved constructive trust and sale of property: Fournier v. Giannousopoulos

    Constructive trust claims and joint family venture claims are often used in family law matters when, following a breakdown of a relationship, one party has been unjustly enriched at the expense of the other.

  • July 30, 2026

    New agreement between Canada, B.C. on environment called ‘major win’

    B.C. Premier David Eby and First Nations leaders are celebrating a “major win” for British Columbia after striking a deal with the federal government to protect the economy and environment of the province’s North Coast.

  • July 30, 2026

    A bird’s chirp: Donald Trump’s most recent Canadian tariff

    George Santayana’s famous bon mot “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is part of a longer passage that is particularly relevant to President Donald Trump’s bizarre conclusion that bad forestry practices in Manitoba should be met with a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian exports to the U.S., to be paid primarily by American importers and consumers.

  • July 29, 2026

    N.B. court uses lawyer’s fraud case to examine rules for granting summary judgment

    New Brunswick’s Appeal Court has quashed a judge’s decision granting summary judgment to a bank being sued by a veteran lawyer who lost $100,000 after being taken in by fraudsters.

  • July 29, 2026

    Court sends $5M mining tax incentive renunciation back to CRA

    The Federal Court has allowed a judicial review after finding that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) failed to properly explain why a lithium mining company could not make a second, late renunciation of exploration expenses to subscribers of its flow-through shares.

  • July 29, 2026

    The human advantage in AI-powered legal practice

    As artificial intelligence grows more capable, human skills are becoming more valuable, not less. For decades, the legal profession around the world has rewarded expertise built on deep research, careful analysis and meticulous attention to detail. Today, AI can perform many of those tasks in seconds, summarizing thousands of documents, identifying relevant case law, drafting contracts, analyzing litigation trends and even suggesting legal arguments.

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