September 10, 2026
Eric Benkendorf has joined Duncan Craig LLP as an associate in Edmonton.
September 10, 2026
Artificial intelligence is now part of almost every conversation about court efficiency. Those conversations are worthwhile and should continue, and I have no doubt that there is an appropriate place for AI in court operations nationwide. But while that work goes on, it is worth asking what else could make our courts run better using what we already have.
September 09, 2026
MLT Aikins has welcomed Terence Arthur and Grayson Bateyko to the firm’s Edmonton office as counsel.
September 09, 2026
Jean-Claude Simard and his team have joined Cain Lamarre’s Quebec City office.
September 08, 2026
The Federal Court has ordered Canada to pay the Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) $27 million in equitable compensation, finding that it breached its fiduciary duty by approving the 1964 expropriation of a Manitoba reserve for the Grand Rapids dam without securing mitigation or compensation for the dam’s effects on the First Nation’s traditional way of life.
September 08, 2026
Appeal by appellants from dismissal of an application for summary judgment striking respondents’ constructive trust claim and cancelling a certificate of pending litigation. The respondents invested in a land development project in 2006 pursuant to participating loan agreements under which they advanced capital to the project in return for repayment and a share of profits if sufficient funds became available.
September 04, 2026
Manitoba’s government will be enacting what it is calling a “historic” expansion of residential rent control coverage in the province — but it will also be raising the annual limit at which landlords can increase rent.
September 04, 2026
Ontario’s top court has upheld a law that extinguished a developer’s potential claims against the province over its Greenbelt land designation, ruling that the constitutional protection of the superior courts’ core jurisdiction does not create an individual right to sue the government.
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.