Tax
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September 22, 2025
Ryan Walter rejoins DLA Piper as associate
Ryan Walter has returned to DLA Piper (Canada) LLP’s Edmonton office as an associate in the corporate group.
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September 22, 2025
Governance by whack-a-mole: A midterm report from the law society
At just past the halfway point of my first term as bencher, it feels like time for a midterm reflection.
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September 19, 2025
SCC rules 5-4 in favour of Toronto homeowners’ adverse possession claim against municipal parkland
In a far-reaching adverse possession judgment that rejects a judge-made immunity for municipal parkland facing matured possessory claims in Ontario, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 5-4 that two Toronto homeowners own a piece of adjoining municipal parkland that was fenced into their backyard decades ago by the home’s previous owner.
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September 19, 2025
CRA hires more staff, boosts digital tools to cut wait times during 100-day improvement plan
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is enhancing its ability to answer taxpayer calls, working through a backlog of tax adjustments, and expanding digital self-serve options as part of its 100-day service improvement plan.
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September 18, 2025
CRA decision set aside due to applicant receiving bad legal advice
Despite finding that a decision by an officer of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) was reasonable, the Federal Court set aside the decision because the applicant received incompetent information from her lawyer.
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September 18, 2025
Court backs CRA denial of interest relief to taxpayer despite 10-year objection delay
The Federal Court has upheld a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) decision denying a taxpayer relief from arrears interest that accumulated over nine years while his objection to a reassessment was held in abeyance pending the outcome of a related test case.
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September 17, 2025
Ford urges Carney to maintain Chinese EV tariffs to protect auto jobs, investments
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Ottawa to maintain a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling it critical to a future trade deal with the U.S. and to the auto sector.
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September 17, 2025
The future of estate law: Human AI prompts for the protection of creative legacies
“Non omnis moriar” (Not all of me will die) — Charles Jennens (1773)
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September 17, 2025
Business succession: Team sports in the legal profession
If every family is dysfunctional, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then to fix them, we need to have more than one tool available. And if the type of thinking that fixes problems is different than the type of thinking which created them, then to work with families on business succession we need to look for solutions in places that the families have not considered.
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September 16, 2025
Cabinet says new criminal legislation coming in ‘matter of days’ but federal budget not till Nov. 4
With MPs back in the capital for the fall, the first two days in the House of Commons were busy ones for legislators. On Sept. 16, 2025, Justice Minister Sean Fraser disclosed some of the Liberal government’s immediate plans and timing for new criminal justice legislation, while Finance and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne informed the Commons today that he will deliver a somewhat tardy federal budget on Nov. 4, 2025 — not in October, as Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon stated when he laid out the minority government’s fall agenda at a press conference the previous day.