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August 13, 2026
Sean Fraser, minister of justice and attorney general of Canada and minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, announced that Justice Gabriel Gaudreault, a judge of the Court of Quebec, has been appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec for the Abitibi, Rouyn-Noranda and Témiscamingue districts.
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August 13, 2026
Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand has announced that Robert Brookfield has been appointed the next Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Russian Federation.
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August 13, 2026
The Federal Court has dismissed an appeal relating to sanctions on a Russian aviation company, saying the minister did not err in determining that its actions helped circumvented sanctions on Russia and "engaged in activities that indirectly facilitate, support or contribute to a violation or attempted violation of the sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine.”
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August 13, 2026
Speed has dominated how we talk about artificial intelligence. AI can generate an image in seconds, draft a song before lunch or produce a dozen variations of a story without getting tired. AI can make artistic production faster and more accessible, but the arts have never been valuable simply because they are difficult to produce. We value them because someone chose to make them, because a human being noticed something, felt something and found a way to share it. With AI becoming more capable, human skills behind art do not disappear. They become easier to see, and, increasingly, easier to defend, since copyright itself now turns on identifying the human contribution in a work.
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August 13, 2026
In Ontario family law, the date on which a spouse receives a gift or inheritance from a third party (usually a parent or relative), whether before or after the date of marriage, may have a significant impact on their net family property and ultimately the size of the equalization payment owed to the other spouse on marital separation.
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August 12, 2026
Of Canadian businesses affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed 50 per cent tariffs on certain CUSMA compliant goods, 77 per cent have said they expect their revenues to drop, according to a new survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).
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August 12, 2026
In a case where dentists were refused pandemic coverage found in their insurance policies once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Ontario Court of Appeal has denied Aviva Insurance’s appeal of a class action settlement and refusal of its stay motion, citing rules governing partial settlement disclosure as they apply to class proceedings.
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August 12, 2026
Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Geneviève Cotnam, who once recalled “my career as a lawyer didn’t always provide a smooth sailing to the bench,” is Quebec's new top judge, succeeding Quebec Court of Appeal Chief Justice Manon Savard who became a part-time (supernumerary) judge on Aug. 10.
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August 12, 2026
The Ontario government has announced a $32.5 million investment in tools aimed at helping police fight illicit drugs, guns and cross-border crime.
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August 12, 2026
Kaley Pulfer has joined Lawson Lundell as a new partner in its Kelowna office.
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August 11, 2026
The current debate over Israel and Palestine provides a particularly difficult test of whether we can maintain those distinctions when political passions run high.
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August 12, 2026
Appeal by appellants from an order granting an oppression remedy under s. 227 of the Business Corporations Act. The chambers judge ordered the appellant, MAJ Enterprises Inc. to purchase the respondent’s shares, with the price to be determined by a chartered business valuator retained and instructed by a receiver, without requiring court approval of the valuation.
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August 11, 2026
A constitutional litigator has launched a multipronged constitutional attack on Bill 4, the Quebec law that purports to unilaterally abolish the Constitution’s requirement that elected members of the national assembly(MNAs) of Quebec must swear allegiance to the King before taking their seats in the provincial legislature.
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August 11, 2026
The Aboriginal Lawyers Forum (ALF), a section of the Canadian Bar Association’s B.C. Branch (CBABC), is set to become an independent association, according to an Aug. 11 news release.
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August 11, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has reduced by $125,640 the damages awarded to a former towing-company employee, finding that he was not entitled to compensation for losing the use of a company tow truck and cellphone that were work tools and not personal benefits.
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August 11, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal and remitted a homeownership dispute back to a different judge in a case where the trial judge made numerous errors relating to an allegedly fraudulent sale agreement.
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August 11, 2026
Josef Rosenthal has joined Cochrane Sinclair as senior counsel in its Vancouver office.
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August 11, 2026
On Aug. 6, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Baker v. Van Dolder’s Home Team Inc., 2026 ONCA 568, which provides much-needed clarity to the enforceability of employment agreement termination provisions in Ontario. The court dealt with the appeal of Baker v. Van Dolder’s Home Team Inc., 2025 ONSC 952 together with a similar case, Li v. Wayfair Canada ULC, 2025 ONSC 2959, resolving an impasse as the trial judges had reached opposite conclusions in their respective interpretation of similar termination clauses.
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August 10, 2026
A jury in Hamilton found Richard Taylor guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the arson deaths of his mother, Carla Rutherford, and stepfather, Alan Rutherford, after their Dundas, Ont., home was set on fire in 2018.
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August 10, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has increased a former Meta employee’s damages by approximately US$4.7 million, finding that contract provisions requiring the immediate forfeiture of unvested restricted stock units (RSUs) upon termination contravened Ontario’s Employment Standards Act.
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August 10, 2026
Canada has imposed sanctions on a Russian manufacturer of armoured vehicles that are used in Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine. On Aug. 10, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announced that Canada sanctioned Streit Group, effective Aug. 6, under the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations.
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August 10, 2026
Veronica Lopardo has joined Koziebrocki Law in Toronto.
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August 10, 2026
Two years after the Competition Act was amended to revise Canada’s merger review framework, new trends have emerged with significant implications for businesses: proposed transactions are increasingly being labelled as “complex,” facing longer wait times and receiving more scrutiny overall, according to an analysis of Competition Bureau data by Anita Banicevic, a partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.
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August 10, 2026
A 2024 call to the Ontario bar, Audrey Beaulieu-Lévesque has been named an associate at Massey LLP.
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August 10, 2026
The federal government is launching a $100-million rebate program for the “interprovincial transportation of eligible steel products by rail and marine.” According to a government announcement issued Aug. 10, the Commodities Sectoral Support Program will rebate “50 per cent of eligible rail or marine transportation costs for Canadian steel moving between provinces and territories for up to one year, or until funds are exhausted.”