June 19, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a finding that Ontario courts have jurisdiction over claims against a Liechtenstein trustee whose offshore trust was allegedly funded with money siphoned from Bridging Finance, rejecting arguments that the trustee was too remote from the alleged misconduct.
June 19, 2026
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has approved a motion relating to an investigation to recover millions in potentially fraudulent payments from the packaged bread class action settlement with Loblaw, after the administrator flagged suspicious claim activity.
June 19, 2026
The federal government has been advised by the majority of a 17-member parliamentary special committee to amend the Criminal Code to “indefinitely” bar access to medical assistance in dying (MAID) to persons suffering solely from mental illness, with the Bloc Québécois and three dissenting senators recommending that the government direct a reference to the Supreme Court of Canada to clarify the applicable law.
June 19, 2026
On June 19, the federal government announced a 10 per cent surtax on global imports of canned vegetables. According to the announcement from the Department of Finance, this provisional safeguard measure is “intended to address the critical circumstances and immediate challenges facing the Canadian canned vegetable industry and to mitigate the impact of trade diversion on domestic producers, helping to stabilize market conditions and protect Canadian growers and processors.”
June 19, 2026
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal, finding that the judge erred by delegating the determination of the fair value of shares to a chartered business valuator rather than having the court determine it.
June 19, 2026
Waterstone Law has welcomed a new associate lawyer, Amrit Dhillon, to its Abbotsford, B.C., office.
June 19, 2026
James Oliver has joined Wildeboer Dellelce as an associate in its banking and financial services team in Toronto.
June 19, 2026
The Office of the Procurement Ombud (OPO) has concluded its third Procurement Solutions Forum. The forum included discussions with senior procurement leaders and federal government stakeholders on developing a “harmonized set of federal procurement rules,” which was one of the OPO’s five key recommendations to address “long-standing federal procurement issues” in its most recent report.
June 19, 2026
In an investigation report released on June 11, the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) found that the AI chatbot Grok, a feature offered to users of X, the social media platform (formerly Twitter), breached the current privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), by creating sexualized artificial images of real people, in particular women and children, without their consent.
June 18, 2026
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has ruled that an electric scooter qualifies as an “automobile” under the province’s Insurance Act, excluding a rider injured in a collision with a minivan from accident benefits under the vehicle’s insurance policy.