May 26, 2026
The Superior Court of Justice, in Kachra v. OPSEU Pension Trust, 2026 ONSC 2092, delivers a pair of rulings for plaintiff-side executive employment lawyers in harassment matters: it makes it fair game during discovery to probe similar complaints from other employees, even if they do not involve their client, and it limits the use of NDAs as a shield to disclosure.
May 25, 2026
The Federal Court has allowed a judicial review of a third work permit refusal but refused request for a directed verdict.
May 25, 2026
Amid a whirlwind of technology around us, sometimes age-old presentations still shine and are most useful in presenting our cases, regardless of forum. The longstanding “Table” feature in Word is a presentation tool that has stood the test of time.
May 25, 2026
Aird & Berlis has three new associates: Devon Molloy, Shruti Ramesh and Humna Wasim.
May 22, 2026
Harper Grey has added five associates from its 2025-26 articling class.
May 22, 2026
In June 2023, following nearly two decades of consultation, revisions and public processes, the Nunavut Planning Commission (NPC) completed and submitted the Recommended Nunavut Land Use Plan (RNLUP). Under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) and the Nunavut Planning and Project Assessment Act (NuPPAA), the plan requires review and approval by three signatories: Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the government of Nunavut and the government of Canada. Yet nearly three years later, the plan remains neither accepted nor rejected.
May 21, 2026
Manitoba has announced plans to establish a regional representative office in India as part of the province’s broader effort to diversify exports beyond the United States.
May 21, 2026
From undergrad to law school, we were sold the idea that merit would matter more than face time. In university, you are graded on how you perform, not how often you are in the classroom. Whether you studied in the library or at your kitchen table, where the work happened did not matter, only whether you did it. Seven years of training built around that principle. Then you enter the working world and all of that disappears overnight.
May 20, 2026
The Federal Court has dismissed an application for judicial review, finding that the Military Police Complaints Commission cannot compel the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal to produce records tied to conduct-complaint investigations.
May 20, 2026
Fifty-seven years ago, Hydro-Québec signed an advantageous contract with the Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corp. (CF(L)Co) for a large block of power at $2 per megawatt hour for 75 years. In December 2014, the premiers of Quebec and Labrador announced a proposed transaction for the existing dam plus 3,900-megawatt expansion products. Simultaneously, they released the Churchill Falls Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The document was not really a memorandum of understanding; it was a pastiche of draft contract sections plus schedules that reflected modelled quantities and prices.