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September 16, 2025
Appeal by appellant from decision of judge of the Supreme Court striking its petition. The appellant was a non-profit society that sought to preserve all remaining old growth forests in TFL 46, for which Teal Cedar Products Ltd. was granted timber harvesting rights under provincial legislation.
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September 15, 2025
Maria Lucas and Matthew Nefstead have been appointed staff lawyers at West Coast Environmental Law, a non-profit group dedicated to safeguarding the environment through law.
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September 11, 2025
The prime minister’s announcement of the first projects to be reviewed by the Major Projects Office (MPO) was met with mixed reaction by industry, provincial governments, Indigenous groups and nature advocates.
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September 11, 2025
Ljuba Djurdjevic has joined McCarthy Tétrault as counsel in its business law group, based in Toronto.
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September 11, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced appointments to the Indigenous Advisory Council (IAC) for the Major Projects Office (MPO), emphasizing the importance of “partnership with Indigenous Peoples.”
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September 10, 2025
The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) has a new leader at its helm. Katy Commisso took over the top job from former president Kathryn Manning at the beginning of September after serving a term as the first vice-president of the OBA, which is the professional association for Ontario's lawyers, judges and law students. She will serve for the 2025-26 term. Commisso, a native of Burlington, Ont., said she did not grow up wanting to be a lawyer.
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September 10, 2025
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has initiated an expiry review of corrosion-resistant steel sheet II from Türkiye and Vietnam.
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September 10, 2025
At the annual conference of federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) ministers of agriculture, ministers across the country “recognized the impacts of dry conditions and wildfire activity affecting regions across Canada, and the significant uncertainty caused by tariffs.”
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September 08, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that $80 million from the Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) will be dedicated to businesses in Atlantic Canada, including the seafood, manufacturing and steel sectors.
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September 08, 2025
Appeal by Yangarra Resources Ltd. from trial judge’s decision. Yangarra was the successor in interest to a Crown petroleum and natural gas lease encumbered by an eight per cent overriding royalty held by PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. Yangarra was unaware of the encumbrance when it purchased the leasehold interest.
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September 05, 2025
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) has announced that Adina Georgescu has joined the firm at its Montreal office as partner in its environmental, municipal, expropriation and regulatory (EMER) group.
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September 05, 2025
The appellate decision in Vento Motorcycles, Inc. v. United Mexican States, 2025 ONCA 82 (Vento) raises important questions about environmental sustainability in international arbitration.
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September 04, 2025
Ottawa’s reduction of the price cap it imposes on seaborne Russian-origin crude oil recently came into force, as part of coordinated efforts by Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom to impede the financing of Russia’s illegal all-out war against Ukraine.
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September 03, 2025
The Department of Finance Canada announced on Sept. 3 that it has concluded nationwide consultations ahead of Budget 2025.
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September 03, 2025
Legal experts, advocacy organizations and prominent Canadians are asking Ottawa to urgently legislate and implement measures to counter the digital risks to Canada’s autonomy and democracy posed by artificial intelligence (AI), foreign interference and U.S. tech giants’ dominance of domestic digital infrastructure.
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September 02, 2025
According to a new cost-benefit analysis report by Simon Fraser University’s Clean Energy Research Group, climate change induced by fossil fuel is leading to losses of $117 billion for the Canadian economy — net of the oil and gas sector’s GDP contributions.
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September 02, 2025
As MPs ready their Sept. 15 return to the House of Commons, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet are meeting for two days in Toronto to strategize how to move forward with the Liberal government’s fall priorities, which include combatting crime, fast-tracking major infrastructure projects including building affordable homes, and “advance the beginnings of Canada’s preparations” for the 2026 joint review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) on free trade.
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September 02, 2025
As Manitoba’s law society takes stock of its most recent fiscal year, the regulator’s new president aims to continue the work of minding lawyers’ well-being as part of a new strategic plan. Law Society of Manitoba (LSM) president Kyle Dear recently sat down with Law360 Canada to discuss the recent release of the law society’s 2025 annual report — a 31-page snapshot of the regulator’s latest fiscal year, which ran from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025.
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August 29, 2025
As Canadian businesses face economic uncertainty due to tariffs disrupting export markets and global supply chains, the federal government has announced the Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) for support to help businesses “respond to trade shocks.”
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August 28, 2025
The federal government is amending the Vessel Operation Restriction Regulations so local authorities can more efficiently manage issues such as excessive speed, shoreline erosion and community safety concerns.
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August 28, 2025
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld an order requiring an Ontario dairy company and a contractor to pay nearly $400,000, including $250,000 in punitive damages, for building cooling cells that infringed a French firm’s patent.
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August 27, 2025
Independent research organization the Conference Board of Canada has released new data on the impact of the ongoing trade dispute between Canada and the U.S., saying in a news release that it is “dampening both business and consumer confidence” and “weighing heavily on provincial economies.” It also indicated that slow population growth is playing a contributing role.
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August 26, 2025
The federal government has announced that the Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED) is providing funding totalling over $2.4 million to five projects in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region in the west of the province with 79 municipalities.
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August 26, 2025
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by a B.C. ostrich farm finding that the minister of agriculture and agri-food has broad discretion to order a flock’s depopulation, even in the case of mere suspicion of disease.
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August 25, 2025
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is conducting a trade mission to China and Japan in early September to strengthen ties with two of the province’s largest trading partners. The province said this is the first time in six years that a Canadian premier has led a trade mission to China.