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July 03, 2026
Eleven years ago, elder law scholar Israel Doron described the movement for a United Nations convention on the rights of older persons as a journey to Ithaka, borrowing from C.P. Cavafy’s famous poem. The destination matters, but so too does the path toward it — one marked by setbacks, detours and incremental progress. At the time, an international treaty remained largely aspirational. Yet this year, the United Nations took a historic step forward when a working group began the drafting process. After years of debate about whether older persons required a dedicated human rights instrument, the conversation has shifted to what it might contain.
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July 02, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has struck a judicial review application challenging a preliminary Copyright Board ruling in an online royalty tariff proceeding, finding that the challenge was premature because the board’s process had not yet run its course.
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July 02, 2026
Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette has appointed Eli Kano as a judge of the Court of Quebec and Amélie Roy as a justice of the peace magistrate, the province has announced.
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July 02, 2026
Munir Abdulhadi and Jill T. Wolkowski have joined McDougall Gauley LLP as associates in its Regina and Saskatoon offices, respectively.
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July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada’s newest judge says his key areas of legal expertise are constitutional and criminal law, including the rules of evidence and procedure, though he has also presided over many civil and administrative law cases in his generalist trial court. Glenn Joyal, a former federal and Manitoba prosecutor and the longtime chief justice of the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench, was elevated by the prime minister to the top court on June 30, succeeding Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin of Alberta, the highly respected constitutional and criminal law litigator, academic and judge who retired from the bench May 30.
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July 02, 2026
Beyond short-term rental income, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will generate a wide variety of income-earning opportunities for Canadian residents, sports bettors, ticket resellers, parking space operators, food vendors, content creators, and transportation providers among them.
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June 30, 2026
The ranks of Canada’s bench and bar numbered slightly more women than men last year, yet many female jurists still reported gender-based and sexual harassment at work and don’t “feel seen as equals to their male colleagues,” according to a new report from the International Bar Association (IBA). The IBA’s investigation into the state of gender parity in Canada’s legal profession reported on June 30 that women make up 53 per cent of lawyers overall — with half of these working in senior positions as lawyers and partners, among the organizations surveyed.
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June 30, 2026
The Federal Court has struck most of a judicial review challenging Canada’s 2023 self-government agreement with the Métis Nation of Ontario, ruling that the applicant First Nations lacked standing because the agreement did not directly affect their legal rights.
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June 30, 2026
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, jointly hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, will bring millions of visitors to Toronto and Vancouver and generate an extraordinary surge in short-term rental income for Canadian homeowners near those venues.
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June 30, 2026
If you intend to make, or have already made, charitable gifts in your will, there is an interesting aspect of charitable giving that you may not have considered. What happens if the charity you named no longer exists, cannot receive the gift, or circumstances have changed such that your gift cannot be carried out as intended? In certain circumstances, the cy-près doctrine may preserve the gift and ensure that your charitable intentions are honoured.