The Complete Brief
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July 30, 2025
StatCan reports 2024 crime data, finds 4% decrease
Statistics Canada has released a new report, “Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2024,” which notes that the volume and severity of police-reported crime decreased four per cent that year after three years of consecutive increases.
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July 30, 2025
Court of Appeal affirms secondary picketing part of labour dispute, to hear CUPW injunction appeal
The Ontario Court of Appeal has held that secondary picketing is a labour dispute activity under the Courts of Justice Act (CJA) and has agreed to hear an appeal from orders restricting the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) from picketing Purolator facilities in their dispute with Canada Post.
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July 30, 2025
Expert panel recommends 24 pre-1970 Supreme Court precedents for priority translation
The Supreme Court of Canada — which drew fire last year for its posting, and then removal, of some 6,000 pre-1970 untranslated (mostly English) judgments from its website — says it has started to translate some of the court’s “most significant” decisions rendered before the 1970 Official Languages Act (OLA) required all new judgments to be issued simultaneously in both official languages.
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July 30, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal denies intervention in anti-SLAPP case involving developer and citizen
The Ontario Court of Appeal has denied an application by the Toronto-based Centre for Free Expression (CFE) to intervene in a defamation case involving a property developer and a citizen who made corruption allegations on Facebook, in a decision that clarifies the boundaries for intervention in anti-SLAPP appeals.
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July 30, 2025
Not all health services are the same, Alberta court rules in podiatrist sexual abuse case
Alberta’s top court has ruled in favour of a podiatrist who was found to have committed sexual abuse under the provincial Health Professions Act because of his relationship with a woman he had once treated.
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July 30, 2025
Whelton Hiutin LLP welcomes Anasofia Heilbron and Reese Nemeth
Whelton Hiutin LLP has announced that Anasofia Heilbron and Reese Nemeth have joined the firm as articling students.
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July 30, 2025
Christine Dimitrov joins MLT Aikins in Vancouver
MLT Aikins has welcomed Christine Dimitrov as an associate lawyer in its Vancouver office, where she has joined the trusts, estates and legacy planning team.
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July 30, 2025
Provocation unproven in Manitoba murder appeal
Justin Patrick Monro, then 27, killed 37-year-old Derek Scott Sutton, but was it murder? Munro was charged with second-degree murder. A June 24, 2021, edition of the Winnipeg Free Press called it a bloody few weeks in Winnipeg, with 11 homicides in just 33 days.
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July 30, 2025
FEDERAL INCOME TAX - Administration and enforcement - Collection - Overpayment - Refunds
Appeal by Attorney General of Canada (Canada) from chambers judge’s finding that funds from property sale were not tax “overpayment” subject to refund, but rather “net sale proceeds”; cross-appeal by Wu from chambers judge giving permission to Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to apply the funds to all tax debts.
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July 30, 2025
Appeal over workplace termination dismissed, arbitration upheld
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal in an employee termination case after a workplace injury, finding that the arbitrator had wide jurisdiction to hear claims.