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April 20, 2026
With AI, lawyers can turn to AI agents to answer questions, locate files, find facts (or make them up) and automate certain functions. AI chatbots appear analogous to intelligent articling students.
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April 17, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced the first ever Canada Investment Summit as part of a plan to catalyze $1 trillion in total investment over the next five years.
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April 17, 2026
Canada’s government is looking for feedback on how to update labour relations policy for federally regulated industries.
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April 17, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a finding that the competition commissioner retains the power to seek ex parte orders compelling the production of documents and testimony under the Competition Act even after commencing proceedings before the Competition Tribunal.
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April 17, 2026
Almost three years ago, the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108263 made sensational worldwide headlines as one of the first cases to penalize lawyers for the use of fake cases generated by ChatGPT in their legal briefs.
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April 16, 2026
As of Jan. 1, 2026, the Law Society of Saskatchewan (the Law Society) may now grant limited licences to practise law in the province. This new framework allows non-lawyers to obtain authorization to provide specific legal services under a limited licence.
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April 15, 2026
This article is a plain-language walkthrough of recent findings on psychological distress and a road map for systemic change in the next 6-12 months.
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April 14, 2026
It feels like yesterday. In reality, more than a year has passed since I filed a Bencher Code of Conduct complaint with Treasurer Peter Wardle against Sid Troister and Megan Shortreed arising from the Law Society of Ontario’s million-dollar CEO compensation scandal. In that time, the clock has kept moving. Accountability, however, appears not to have kept pace.
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April 13, 2026
In Arsopi v. ARVOS GmbH, 2026 ABCA 49, the Alberta Court of Appeal (the ABCA) allowed an appeal from a decision that only partially stayed a third-party claim in favour of arbitration. The court concluded that the entire dispute fell within the scope of a broadly worded arbitration clause agreed to by sophisticated commercial parties.
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April 13, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada’s spring docket presents the nine judges with a wide range of appeals, including the last cases to be heard by soon-to-retire Justice Sheilah Martin and her colleagues in their iconic 1940s-era Ottawa courthouse, which is slated for a multi-year major update. The Supreme Court’s new spring session, scheduled from April 13 to May 22, 2026, features 14 appeals, 10 of which involve criminal law issues.
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April 13, 2026
Is it better to make a first offer in negotiations? And what about aggressive first offers — do they set an advantageous anchor or lead to insult and impasse?
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April 10, 2026
The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld an arbitration award in favour of a pediatrician terminated for refusing a COVID-19 vaccination, emphasizing that it lacks jurisdiction to hear appeals raising issues of mixed fact and law under the Arbitration Act.
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April 10, 2026
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) practices and the use of personal phones, calendars, note‑taking applications and other personal tools for work purposes persist in organizations with or without employer authorization.
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April 10, 2026
The decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the court) in InFrontier AF LP v. Rahmani, 2025 ONSC 3968 on July 3, 2025, raises a fundamental question at the heart of international arbitration: to what extent can state action alter the procedural architecture chosen by contracting parties?
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April 10, 2026
In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack that shocked America, sparking a revolution in diet and exercise that slashed cardiovascular deaths by 60 per cent within decades. Today, Canadian lawyers face a parallel crisis, not in our bodies, but in our brains.
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April 10, 2026
Canada does not yet have a dedicated federal artificial intelligence statute. However, the Canadian government has indicated that it will not be without one for long.
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April 10, 2026
There were a number of significant developments in Canadian telecommunications regulation in 2025. Key developments included: the introduction and retraction of lawful access legislation; the reintroduction of cybersecurity legislation; judicial decisions on the jurisdiction of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC or Commission) and government liability in tort; and, regulatory decisions on direct-to-cell, wholesale broadband, broadband subsidy requirements and outage reporting. Decisions are also pending on a number of CRTC proceedings on retail consumer wireless and internet service marketing obligations.
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April 09, 2026
Saskatchewan’s law society has listed several upcoming conferences, including one exploring the use of mediation and another highlighting the contribution of Asian legal professionals.
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April 09, 2026
When it comes to dismissal for just cause, we know the bar is high and employer conduct will be heavily scrutinized. We sometimes offer advice that could seem to be inconsistent:
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April 08, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that prior internal investigations by the Competition Bureau into allegedly deceptive marketing practices are not relevant to remedies before the Competition Tribunal.
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April 08, 2026
The Nahmad family is one of the leading collectors of artworks in the world and are said to have amassed approximately 4,000 paintings worth about $4 billion, most of which I understand is stored in the Geneva Freeport in Switzerland. The patriarch of the family is David Nahmad, while his son Helly runs the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York. Other members of the family are involved in different galleries in London and New York.
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April 08, 2026
Two of Canada’s largest unions are urging Ottawa to adopt a modern industrial strategy, warning that new U.S. tariffs could deepen economic strain as the country heads into a review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).
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April 08, 2026
Most of us who have grown up in Canada, whether we realize it or not, have always taken the rule of law for granted. We never really thought about it, or what it even was, but that is precisely the point. It has always just been there, like oxygen. You don’t think about oxygen until you have trouble breathing. We as a society are now having trouble breathing.
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April 07, 2026
It keeps you up at night, doesn’t it? Will artificial intelligence take over much of the practice of law as we know it? In particular, what about yours?
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April 02, 2026
Ontario’s top court has ruled against a company that claimed software developed by an employee belonged to them, with the judges saying the work was not done in the normal course of employment. Nexus Solutions Inc., a London, Ont.-based company that develops and markets CEMView, a software product, claimed that competing software developed by a former employee belonged to them.