Labour & Employment
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December 15, 2025
Ontario announces draft regulation for mutual free-trade recognition
Ontario has announced it is publishing a draft regulation under the Ontario Free Trade and Mobility Act to implement mutual recognition of goods and services from reciprocating Canadian jurisdictions. The move will support economic integration and remove internal trade barriers, which the province said costs the economy up to $200 billion every year.
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December 15, 2025
New Alberta legislation limits law society’s education, disciplinary powers
Hot on the heels of a controversial bill to limit the disciplinary authority of professional regulatory bodies, Alberta legislators have also passed a bill that brings significant change to the governance of the legal profession in the province — a move some legal observers are saying seems to reflect a distrust of the provincial law society.
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December 15, 2025
DS Lawyers is now Prelia
DS Lawyers has adopted a new name, Prelia, as the first phase of its international rebranding, the firm announced.
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December 12, 2025
N.W.T. proposes changes to public service legislation
The Northwest Territories is proposing changes to public service legislation to give unionized workers in that sector greater choice in how they are represented.
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December 12, 2025
Lawyers’ year end 2025 and upcoming legal challenges 2026
As 2025 comes to an end and everyone attends their holiday parties, let’s prepare for the challenges that will be faced by legal professionals in the upcoming year. Here are a few that come to mind:
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December 12, 2025
How to fix the policy mix that’s killing Canadian productivity
Canada has a productivity crisis. Last year, Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers called Canada’s declining productivity an “emergency,” and the situation has only continued to worsen since.
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December 11, 2025
Stewart McKelvey to admit 3 new partners in 2026
Stewart McKelvey will welcome three lawyers to the partnership effective Jan. 1, 2026, according to the Atlantic Canada-based firm.
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December 10, 2025
Alberta’s passage of notwithstanding clause bill slammed by legal, rights groups
Alberta has once again used the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to shield its legislation from constitutional scrutiny, this time for laws affecting medical treatment and pronoun use by transgender youth.
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December 09, 2025
Are Canadian courts fit for purpose?
With the Cowichan Tribes v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 BCSC 1490 decision, the British Columbia Supreme Court cast aside nearly a millennium of certainty regarding land ownership. It did this by severely limiting the rights inherent to fee simple title. It additionally declared invalid land titles under the province’s Torrens land registry system (undermining the provincial guaranty inherent in Torrens systems). Given the nature of the claim, namely ownership and development of land that occurred in the absence of a formal treaty, this decision has nationwide implications.
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December 09, 2025
Lost trust: How employee post-incident conduct becomes springboard to just cause
Employers hate when I tell them that instead of firing an employee immediately after suspected misconduct, they should conduct a proper, objective investigation that includes confronting the employee and giving them a chance to provide their version of events. After spending far too much of my life studying summary dismissal, I can confidently say that this step is critical in almost every case if the employer wants to defend a cause termination.