Labour & Employment
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March 07, 2025
Court stays class action against workers’ compensation regimes over lack of legal representation
An Ontario Superior Court has stayed a proposed class action challenging workers’ compensation regimes across Canada, finding that the plaintiffs were required to retain legal counsel to proceed with the action.
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March 07, 2025
Ottawa unveils $6.5B package to support workers and businesses hit by U.S. tariffs
The federal government has announced a $6.5 billion package to mitigate the impact of U.S. tariffs on Canadian businesses and workers.
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March 07, 2025
B.C. mayor denied procedural fairness in decision to strip him of his powers, judge says
A B.C. judge has ruled that the mayor of a municipality in the province’s central Interior region was denied procedural fairness when the city’s council voted to censure and sanction him over his alleged promotion of a book disputing some of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s findings on residential schools.
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March 07, 2025
A spotlight on gender bias: Investigating the investigators | Heidi J. T. Exner
With International Women’s Day 2025 coming up Saturday March 8, it seems fitting to share a recent experience with my legal peers about some research I am conducting on gender bias in the private investigator industry.
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March 06, 2025
N.B. inquest calls for changes after worker's death on home construction site
A coroner’s inquest jury in New Brunswick has made recommendations for improving construction site safety following the death of a carpenter who fell from scaffolding while working on a home.
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March 06, 2025
Embattled Ontario law society CEO ‘no longer employed’ with regulator amid pay hike fallout
Law Society of Ontario (LSO) CEO Diana Miles is “no longer employed” with the regulator after a controversy regarding her salary came to light.
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March 06, 2025
Quebec labour unions sound alarm over new bill that could limit strikes
The Quebec government has tabled a bill that gives it sweeping new powers to curb and limit strikes or lockouts by broadening the notion of essential services and granting the labour minister the power to refer labour disputes to an arbitrator — proposals that critics have derided as nothing less than a direct frontal attack on the constitutionally protected right to collective bargaining.
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March 06, 2025
Canada implements significant reforms to Express Entry’s occupation-specific draws
Canada has introduced substantial changes to its Express Entry system for 2025, introducing a new category for education-related occupations while removing numerous jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), transport and agriculture from targeted draws. These modifications are intended to align immigration selection criteria more closely with Canada’s evolving labour market needs, prioritizing sectors such as health care, social services, trades and education.
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March 05, 2025
Business, labour have diverse asks in evolving trade war as legal attacks on new U.S. tariffs loom
Ottawa and provincial governments are working on their next moves in the fast-evolving trade war launched by the new U.S. administration, but business and industry groups are wasting no time in pushing for government aid and non-tariff retaliatory measures in the wake of President Donald Trump’s imposition of hefty tariffs on Canadian exports to the United States.
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March 05, 2025
Manitoba appeal asks if police action rose to level of implied threats, other questions
In December 2022, a judge sentenced Kyle Pietz to 16 years in prison for killing office cleaner Eduardo Balaquit. In May of that year, a jury convicted Pietz, then 37, of manslaughter in the 2018 killing. Balaquit’s body has never been found. Pietz denied killing Balaquit, and the whereabouts of his remains are unknown.