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July 29, 2026
The public often draws only a loose distinction between lawful punishment and unlawful mistreatment.
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July 28, 2026
A securities class action against Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd., three Rio Tinto entities and related individuals has been authorized by the Superior Court of Quebec for settlement purposes.
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July 28, 2026
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has released the results of its most recent Crypto Asset Survey, which shows “awareness and ownership of crypto assets among Canadians are on the rise.”
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July 28, 2026
Marie Océane Jacques and Louis-David Pinel have joined Langlois as lawyers after completing their articling terms with the firm and being called to the Quebec bar. Jacques is based in Montreal, while Pinel is based in Quebec City.
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July 28, 2026
Part one of this series covered Canada’s platform-reporting regime under Part XX of the Income Tax Act. Part two is a practitioner’s guide that will discuss business versus property income, employment versus independent contractor status, non-cash compensation valuation, and GST/HST registration rules for Canada’s digital economy.
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July 28, 2026
Choosing an executor is one of the most consequential decisions in estate planning. An executor is a fiduciary required to act honestly, impartially, and in the best interests of the estate over their own. Where an executor’s personal obligations, financial interests, or relationships conflict with these duties, these conflicts of interest can lead to family disputes, high legal costs, and can jeopardize proper estate administration.
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July 28, 2026
Nav Shukla has rejoined Farris as an associate in its Vancouver office.
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July 28, 2026
Multiple criminal charges have been laid against a business owner and manager after a Competition Bureau investigation alleged they used “misleading representations to suggest that Canadians could quickly and easily obtain or renew Canadian passports online.”
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July 28, 2026
In early 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments across the globe scrambled to procure large quantities of personal protective equipment (PPE). Sourcing the equipment proved challenging; like the countries in the PPE rush, manufacturers were utterly unprepared for the size and scale of the orders they received, with impossibly short turnaround times.
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July 28, 2026
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has announced stronger compliance measures for inshore regulations to ensure “economic benefits of fishing stay with independent harvesters and their communities.”
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July 27, 2026
A proposed class action has been launched against Canadian Tire for a data breach in which affected customer records were reportedly posted for sale on the dark web.
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July 27, 2026
Spencer Burger has joined McCarthy Tétrault as a partner in its business law group in Toronto.
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July 27, 2026
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has awarded special costs to a respondent strata company in a case where there was unnecessary delay and egregious conduct relating to litigation for a lien on a unit.
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July 27, 2026
In 1048977 B.C. Ltd. v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada, 2025 BCSC 1532 (Aviva), the British Columbia Supreme Court was asked to engage in a measure of “crystal ball gazing” as it assessed the lost profits of a restaurant and event venue that never opened.
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July 27, 2026
Cain Lamarre has added Jean-François Denis as senior director of professional practice, knowledge and innovation.
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July 27, 2026
There was once a law firm with a corporate department consisting of a law clerk and one absolutely awful senior corporate lawyer who I will call Carl. Carl was smart. He just had no practice management skills. He was a cluster-fuzz of negligence claims, just waiting to blow up.
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July 27, 2026
Canada and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have concluded negotiations on an economic pact they say will strengthen bilateral trade and investment ties between the two nations.
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July 27, 2026
Robins Appleby LLP has added Julia Sugden as an associate in its commercial real estate and development group in Toronto.
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July 27, 2026
On June 15, the federal government tabled its long-awaited, updated privacy reform law, Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA). The bill, together with the government’s proposed new online harms legislation, Bill C-34, can be seen as setting forth some specifics onto the generalities of its national AI strategy, “AI for All,” announced June 4.
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July 24, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a contempt finding and $30,000 fine against the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA), finding that a motion judge misapplied the legal test for contempt and unjustifiably used “dismissive and derogatory” language to characterize the regulator’s conduct.
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July 24, 2026
For most of the past decade, the dominant compliance problem in Canada’s digital economy was one of invisibility. Platform income — whether earned through Airbnb, Uber, Etsy, YouTube, or a subscription content service — was self-reported, difficult for the Canada Revenue Agency to verify independently, and largely invisible to the agency’s audit selection algorithms unless the taxpayer’s bank deposits or lifestyle flagged a discrepancy. That environment has changed.
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July 24, 2026
The law governing damages arising from the manner of dismissal appeared to be settled nearly two decades ago. In Honda Canada Inc. v. Keays, 2008 SCC 39 (Honda), the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the approach that had developed under Wallace v. United Grain Growers Ltd., (c.o.b. Public Press), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 701 (Wallace), and replaced it with a framework focused on “actual damages.” Under Honda, damages flowing from an employer’s bad faith conduct in the manner of dismissal were to be assessed according to the same principles and in the same way as moral damages rather than through an extension of the employee’s notice period.
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July 24, 2026
On July 23, the federal government launched a public consultation “seeking views on how to strengthen transparency for AI systems and AI-generated outputs.”
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July 24, 2026
The law governing residential tenancies under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 17 (RTA), has evolved significantly since its enactment. A recent landmark decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal has fundamentally reshaped how risk is allocated in residential tenancy litigation in Ontario.
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July 24, 2026
The intersection of psychology and criminal law has seldom posed greater challenges than in cases involving recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.