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October 01, 2026
There is a growing tendency within parts of the legal profession to portray the criminal justice system as complainant-unfriendly, if not outright complainant-hostile.
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October 01, 2026
The New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) contract’s central weakness is the absence of a workable structure for an energy-only transaction during system stress. The parties appear not to have established how an energy-only commitment should operate when the seller has inadequate energy, capacity or water reserves to serve all demands.
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October 01, 2026
Hydro-Québec is a Crown corporation owned by the Quebec government. Unlike most U.S. utilities, its finances and policies are strongly shaped by the provincial government and the governing party’s policy objectives. Quebec has a regulatory agency, but it is also part of the provincial governmental structure.
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September 30, 2026
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree has appointed David Paradiso as Correctional Investigator of Canada, effective Oct. 13, 2026.
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September 30, 2026
MLT Aikins has welcomed Shayne Kamuchik as a litigation associate in its Edmonton office.
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September 30, 2026
Marie-Ève Martineau has joined McCarthy Tétrault as counsel in its litigation and dispute resolution group in Montreal.
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September 30, 2026
The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld disciplinary findings against a lawyer for bullying emails to opposing counsel and obstructive responses to the law society, ruling that lawyers’ duty of civility applies to non-public communications with opposing counsel.
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September 30, 2026
Ontario’s three chief justices officially opened the courts Sept. 29, highlighting the achievements of the past and the challenges in the future for the province’s judicial system. Ontario Chief Justice Michael Tulloch, alongside his colleagues Ontario Superior Court Chief Justice Patrick Boucher and Ontario Court of Justice head Sharon Nicklas, led the ceremony that took place at Osgoode Hall.
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September 30, 2026
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Suzanne Côté says she finds intervener advocacy on Zoom to be as effective as oral submissions made in the courtroom, but she is also alive to contrary arguments made by legal organizations, such as the Canadian Bar Association and The Advocates’ Society.
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September 30, 2026
On Sept. 8, 2026, the parties to the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) agreements filed federal complaints concerning Hydro-Québec’s interruption of deliveries to Massachusetts during the first two months of the 20-year agreement.
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September 29, 2026
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh has been named the inaugural fellow of the Raj Anand LCO Access to Justice Research Fellowship, a joint initiative of the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) and Osgoode Hall Law School.
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September 29, 2026
Adam Nangini and Natasha Barrett have joined WeirFoulds as associates in its corporate and regulatory practice groups.
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September 29, 2026
Sophia Della Rosa has joined MLT Aikins as an associate in its Calgary office.
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September 29, 2026
Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) benchers set fee levels for the coming year at their Sept. 25 meeting, while also making amendments to several accounting and client verification rules.
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September 29, 2026
Canadian lawyers are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence tools to streamline legal work, but industry leaders say firms must carefully assess privacy and data-retention risks. While AI could lower the cost of legal services and help serve more clients, it cannot replace human judgment and client relationships, they say.
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September 29, 2026
Since November 2025, Alberta students-at-law are no longer required to pledge “true allegiance” to King Charles III to become an Alberta lawyer. Yet most don’t even know it.
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September 29, 2026
On Oct. 5, Quebecers will be voting for the politicians who are together supposed to constitute the 43rd legislature of Quebec’s National Assembly. However, a law passed by the assembly following the election held on Oct. 3, 2022, risks undermining the legality of any parliamentary activities, votes and laws adopted by the new legislature after it begins sitting later this fall. This is the law titled An Act to recognize the oath provided in the Act respecting the National Assembly as the sole oath required in order to sit in the Assembly, S.Q. 2022, c. 30 (Act to recognize the oath).
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September 28, 2026
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has approved participation in a cybersecurity awareness program for lawyers and paralegals as the profession faces increasingly sophisticated threats to confidential client information, funds and property.
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September 28, 2026
Anthony de Fazekas has joined Pulse Law as a lawyer and intellectual property lead, working in Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.
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September 28, 2026
Brynne Thomas and Sian Shin have returned to Epstein Cole as associates in Toronto after previously working with the firm as summer and articling students.
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September 28, 2026
Alberta has announced four judicial appointments, including one applications judge to the Court of King’s Bench and three justices to the Alberta Court of Justice.
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September 25, 2026
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Suzanne Côté has significantly impacted the top court’s jurisprudence and culture since her appointment almost 12 years ago, says University of Alberta constitutional law professor Gerard Kennedy.
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September 25, 2026
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Suzanne Côté is thinking about what life after the bench might look like, she tells Law360 Canada. The court’s impactful and most prolific judge, who turned 68 this week with no apparent loss of drive or energy, says she is healthy and still loves the work that has earned her a reputation as a trailblazer and original thinker.
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September 25, 2026
Nova Scotia’s law society has officially adopted an admissions-level competency program initiated by its counterparts in Western Canada.
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September 25, 2026
Langlois has announced that Samuel Lavoie has joined the firm’s litigation group.