April 20, 2026
With AI, lawyers can turn to AI agents to answer questions, locate files, find facts (or make them up) and automate certain functions. AI chatbots appear analogous to intelligent articling students.
April 16, 2026
First Nations leaders in Manitoba are claiming to have been wrongly left out of an agreement between the province and Ottawa designed to accelerate assessments of how development projects will impact the environment.
April 16, 2026
The British Columbia government has introduced legislation as part of a treaty implementation process with the Kitselas First Nation.
April 15, 2026
As B.C. contemplates making changes to its landmark Indigenous relations law, the president of the province’s bar association is affirming her organization’s support for the legislation and is calling on the government to be transparent in its implementation. In a statement issued April 14, Canadian Bar Association British Columbia Branch (CBABC) president Patricia Blair called the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), which mandates the B.C. government to bring provincial laws into alignment with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the cornerstone of British Columbia’s commitment to reconciliation.
April 14, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a temporary suspension of the federal excise tax on gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel in a bid to reduce the impact of rising fuel prices following the war in Iran.
April 14, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed CN Rail’s appeal of an abuse of process finding in a case where its land was contaminated with substances from an adjacent property.
April 09, 2026
Corey Luda has joined McLennan Ross as an associate in Edmonton as part of the firm’s insurance defence and commercial litigation team.
April 09, 2026
In a case of numerous alleged human rights abuses and deaths at a Tanzanian mine owned by a Canadian company, the Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld that Tanzania was the more appropriate forum than Ontario. Plaintiffs’ counsel and intervener Amnesty International stated that the decision did not advance access to justice. The case may go to the Supreme Court of Canada.
April 08, 2026
On April 8, the Competition Bureau announced that it has obtained a court order to “gather information to advance its investigation into Keyera Corp.’s (Keyera) proposed acquisition of the Canadian natural gas liquids business of Plains All American Pipeline LP (Plains).”
April 08, 2026
Ontario’s controversial legislation allowing it to fast-track infrastructure projects is facing a constitutional challenge. A coalition of public interest and environmental groups is saying the Special Economic Zones Act (SEZA), which allows the province to establish areas where infrastructure and resource developments are exempt from provincial or municipal laws that might otherwise apply, violates s. 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867, which grants the legislature exclusive power to make laws.