November 05, 2025
Ottawa’s three-year plan to reduce immigration to “sustainable” levels includes new “one-time” initiatives to “recognize eligible Protected Persons in Canada as permanent residents over the next two years” and to “accelerate the transition of up to 33,000 work permit holders to permanent residency in 2026 and 2027.”
November 05, 2025
Not all injuries can be seen. Emotional distress — often called the “invisible injury” — shows up in many tort cases, especially negligence claims. But proving and valuing psychological harm has always been tricky. Over time, Canadian courts have worked to clarify what counts as compensable emotional distress and how to prove it.
November 04, 2025
Harper Grey LLP has welcomed Anand Soma as an associate in its construction law group.
November 04, 2025
The pandemic may not be on many people’s radars these days, but those with long COVID continue to struggle with a serious illness that is often misdiagnosed, frequently dismissed and not fully understood.
November 04, 2025
It is a curious paradox of modern professional life that physical injury is readily compensable and psychological injury is increasingly actionable, yet wounds of conscience remain invisible to the law.
November 03, 2025
Marie-Ève Couturier has joined the insurance law group at Langlois Lawyers LLP.
October 31, 2025
Dividing over what is too “remote” a hypothetical scenario to qualify as “reasonable” when sentencing judges are assessing the constitutionality of a mandatory minimum penalty (MMP), the Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-4 that the one-year MMPs for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional as they would be grossly disproportionate in some hypothetical, but reasonably foreseeable, circumstances.
October 30, 2025
It was not a dark and stormy night. It was actually a pleasant fall morning, and I probably should have been entering my dockets. But the Halloween spirit was in the air, and it moved me to see what Canadian law has to say about the occult. Read on if you dare. I promise there won’t be anything as frightening as the Income Tax Act.
October 29, 2025
Robinson Sheppard Shapiro LLP (RSS) has welcomed William Abourjaili-Bilodeau to its insurance practice group.
October 29, 2025
A House of Commons committee is soliciting submissions by Nov. 28 to inform its new study of how the safety of women and children is affected by Canada’s bail and sentencing regimes, and how Criminal Code s. 810 (recognizance orders or peace bonds) can be improved to help keep women and children safe.