September 04, 2026
Criticizing judges is not wrong. Indeed, criticism of judicial decisions is an important part of a free society. Judges are not infallible, and their reasons are properly subject to scrutiny by lawyers, academics, journalists and the public.
September 04, 2026
Business relationships do not always break down cleanly. In closely held companies, disputes tend to begin gradually.
September 03, 2026
Ottawa has unveiled what it calls “a nationally recognized baseline” of five principles — backed by major U.S. and Canadian artificial intelligence and other technology industry players — to help municipal governments and communities assess proposals to build AI data centres in their localities.
September 03, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a finding that only investors who took the developers of a failed real estate project to trial were entitled to share in the land-sale proceeds, ruling that investors who entered settlement agreements but were never paid also held purchase-money resulting trusts over the funds.
September 03, 2026
Upcoming conferences listed by Saskatchewan’s law society will include a look into the emotional challenges in estate disputes, French terminology in family law contracts, and the current state of AI in the legal profession.
September 03, 2026
Aird & Berlis had welcomed Luke Chao, Lisa Donaghy, Adèle Gagnon-Leroux and David Yanofsky to the firm.
September 03, 2026
The association Federally Regulated Employers – Transportation and Communications (FETCO) said it is urging the federal government to quickly make amendments to the Canada Labour Code provisions relating to collective bargaining in light of the U.S. trade dispute.
September 03, 2026
Brad McLellan has retired from WeirFoulds LLP after 44 years with the firm.
September 03, 2026
Technology has transformed the practice of immigration law and continues to do so. Practitioners from the past few decades will remember collecting forms from the office of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service and typing information on a typewriter. Some forms were required in multiple copies, with sheets of carbon in between. Many forms were required to be filed on specific colours of paper, including blue, yellow, green and pumpkin. If we did not want to mail in the forms, we could walk into the government office, pay the fee and file the forms in person.
September 03, 2026
Torkin Manes has named Roland Hung chair of its Privacy, Data & Cybersecurity Group in Toronto.