May 28, 2026
Marcus Hinkley has joined Wildeboer Dellelce as a partner in Toronto, the firm says.
May 28, 2026
The Federal Court has refused to grant summary judgment in a class action concerning allegations claiming physicians conducting mandatory pre-employment medical examinations for RCMP applicants committed sexual assaults and other misconduct over more than four decades.
May 28, 2026
Some progress has been made toward modernizing the Government of Canada’s federal procurement system. Achieving maximum efficiency has taken on heightened urgency as the federal government prepares to expand military procurement to unprecedented levels.
May 28, 2026
A southern Alberta man was sentenced to five-and-a-half years, less time served, in connection with a fatal attack on 33-year-old Linden Grier in 2021.
May 28, 2026
Recent events such as the Tumbler Ridge shootings have brought to a head the issue of protecting children and youth online. However, the landscape for online harms protection for young people is at a crossroad. Increasing concerns are militating toward adoption of mandated age-control rules in online harms laws and social media bans. Yet in their current state of development, the methodologies for such controls present significant privacy and other societal risks, not only for young people, but potentially all internet users.
May 28, 2026
Appeal by appellant from conviction for aggravated assault. The appellant bit off part of the complainant’s pinkie finger during a physical altercation. The Crown called five witnesses at trial: the complainant, Marshall (the complainant’s husband at the time of the incident, who was present during the incident), and three investigating police officers.
May 27, 2026
The federal government is suspending immigration documents for residents of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan to reduce the risk of Ebola entering Canada.
May 27, 2026
New Brunswick has introduced legislation in a bid to strengthen the “enforcement and prosecution” of bylaws used by First Nations in their communities. According to a May 27 news release, the proposed changes to the Provincial Offences Procedure Act “would provide clarity that provincial procedures can be applied to First Nations bylaws, should First Nations wish for them to apply.”
May 27, 2026
On May 26, Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security to discuss Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, 2026. While the commissioner noted that Bill C-22 “improves on its predecessor Bill C-2 in several respects,” he warned that further amendments are needed to “strengthen and ensure privacy protections for Canadians.”
May 27, 2026
Citing the need to “move quickly to detect and disrupt” the illegal synthetic opioids causing many deaths and injuries, Ottawa announced it has launched a new drug analysis centre to combat illegal drugs.