The Complete Brief
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September 22, 2025
Alberta lawyer loses bid to overturn law society rules
An Alberta lawyer has been dealt a blow in his attempts to get a judicial review of rules and conduct requirements of the provincial law society he says led legal professionals to adopt political objectives.
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September 22, 2025
Ontario appoints two new judges to provincial court
Attorney General Doug Downey has announced the appointment of two new judges to the Ontario Court of Justice, effective Sept. 25, 2025: Justice Rachel Elizabeth Young and Justice Ghazala Shaheen Zaman.
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September 22, 2025
CIVIL PROCEDURE - Parties - Class or representative actions - Certification - Definition of class
Appeal by Doan from order of Federal Court dismissing her motion to certify the underlying action as a class proceeding. In the underlying action, Doan alleged that Clearview engaged in widespread copyright infringement and violations of moral rights by collecting, copying and storing images of human faces taken in Canada without the consent of the individuals who took the images or who hold copyright and/or moral rights in those images.
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September 22, 2025
Edmonton Police Service: Extortion or reasonable justification?
As a criminal lawyer practising for over 20 years, I was troubled last week to see various newspapers reporting that the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) had sent a letter to the Alberta government stating that if a plea agreement for a child homicide was allowed to go through (from murder to manslaughter), the EPS would release facts about the case to the public so that public opinion could decide whether the plea was appropriate.
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September 22, 2025
Canadian government should abolish immigration detention
A 39-year-old Somali man, Abdurahman Hassan, died at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre in June 2015 after being transferred from the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., where he had been restrained by 10 individuals attempting to control him.
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September 19, 2025
The Friday Brief: Editor-In-Chief’s must-read items from the past two weeks
Here are my picks for the top stories we’ve published over the last two weeks.
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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
Federal Court rejects non-lawyer representation in Jordan’s principle case involving 250 children
The Federal Court has dismissed a motion in which a non-lawyer sought to represent 250 children. The matter engaged Jordan’s principle in order to provide funding to an organization that offered behavioural services.
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September 19, 2025
David Lametti named Canada’s UN ambassador
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that he will appoint former justice minister David Lametti as ambassador and permanent representative of Canada to the United Nations.
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September 19, 2025
Feds launch public consultations on CUSMA
Following the prime minister’s visit to Mexico, the federal government has launched public consultations on the operation of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).