Family
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November 06, 2025
B.C. expands early resolution program for family law cases to five more registries
British Columbia has expanded access to the Early Resolution Process (ERP) for family law to five additional provincial court family registries in an effort to expand access to fast and affordable family-law dispute resolutions.
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November 05, 2025
New federal immigration levels plan cuts targets for permanent & new temporary resident admissions
Ottawa’s three-year plan to reduce immigration to “sustainable” levels includes new “one-time” initiatives to “recognize eligible Protected Persons in Canada as permanent residents over the next two years” and to “accelerate the transition of up to 33,000 work permit holders to permanent residency in 2026 and 2027.”
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November 05, 2025
Canada’s 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan: Sharp temporary cuts, permanent stability
Canada’s 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan, announced in Budget 2025, represents a decisive policy U-turn, recalibration after years of record population growth under the former Trudeau government.
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November 04, 2025
Maritime province supporting new sexual violence police unit
New Brunswick is throwing support behind a new sexual violence unit run by the RCMP in that province.
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November 04, 2025
What are appropriate parenting orders in contentious divorce involving mental health, family violence?
The matter of Deschamps v. Deschamps, 2025 ONSC 4737 involved a 10-year marriage with two children (ages 13 and nine at the time of the decision) who had grown estranged from their mother after a history of family violence committed by the father against the mother.
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November 04, 2025
Looking at Bill C-223 through a family violence lens
Bill C-223, Liberal MP Lisa Hepner’s private member’s bill, proposes revisions to the Divorce Act. These revisions build on significant changes with respect to the role of family violence in child-related issues made just four years ago through Bill C-78.
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November 04, 2025
B.C. appoints two judges to provincial court
The British Columbia government has appointed Diba Majzub and Megan Olson to the provincial court, effective Nov. 24.
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November 04, 2025
Brain fog and other long COVID problems in the workplace
The pandemic may not be on many people’s radars these days, but those with long COVID continue to struggle with a serious illness that is often misdiagnosed, frequently dismissed and not fully understood.
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November 03, 2025
Ontario pledges over $26M for shelters, family court support workers
The Ontario government is making a $26.7-million investment to protect survivors of gender-based violence.
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October 31, 2025
Split SCC strikes down one-year mandatory minimums for accessing or possessing child pornography
Dividing over what is too “remote” a hypothetical scenario to qualify as “reasonable” when sentencing judges are assessing the constitutionality of a mandatory minimum penalty (MMP), the Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-4 that the one-year MMPs for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional as they would be grossly disproportionate in some hypothetical, but reasonably foreseeable, circumstances.