June 17, 2026
Used by hostage negotiators, journalists, mediators and others, active listening provides a shortcut to developing trust and understanding between people.
For lawyers, its application is professionally significant: those who listen actively stand to develop stronger client relationships, gain clearer insight into client needs and are better positioned to provide effective representation.
June 17, 2026
Pleadings define each party’s case. They frame the litigation and set out the material facts said to support the causes of action or defences presented. A party may move to strike an opposing pleading where it fails to disclose a reasonable cause of action or a tenable defence.
June 16, 2026
The British Columbia Supreme Court has dismissed an application arguing that multiple charges stemming from a tailings storage facility failure were duplicative. It found that five affected bodies of water were legally distinct.
June 16, 2026
On June 16, the Competition Bureau launched an examination of Canada’s food supply chain, which will “identify how greater competition can help improve outcomes for Canadians at the grocery store.”
June 16, 2026
Ottawa has proposed a new legislative regime for private-sector privacy regulation that imposes a raft of obligations on how businesses and other non-governmental organizations handle Canadians’ personal data, with oversight from a robust dual privacy and digital harms regulator armed with audit and binding order-making powers, backed by hefty administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) and fines for the most serious new offences.
June 16, 2026
Lenczner Slaght has added Peter Douglas as an associate in Toronto.
June 16, 2026
In Angus A2A GP Inc v. Alvarez & Marsal Canada Inc., 2026 ABCA 156 (Angus A2A), the Alberta Court of Appeal recently upheld what it described as an “unusual” use of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) (CCAA), in which equity investors, rather than the debtor companies or their creditors, initiated the proceedings.
June 16, 2026
Ontario and the United Kingdom have signed a statement of intent (SOI) to collaborate on developing an integrated critical minerals supply chain.
June 16, 2026
On Aug. 1, 2026, the remaining provision of the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 2025 (Bill 4-2025) will come into force, following an announcement on Feb. 9, 2026, by the B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General.
June 16, 2026
Appeal and application for judicial review by the Attorney General of Canada (Attorney General). This was from a decision of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (Tribunal) classifying imported surgical gloves as articles for use in surgical instruments, thereby qualifying them for duty-free importation. Medline Canada Corporation imported various models of sterile surgical gloves and initially classified them as surgical gloves of vulcanized rubber.