Real Estate
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January 03, 2025
B.C. increases income, property value thresholds for renter’s tax credit, homeowner grant
British Columbia has increased the income threshold for its renter’s tax credit and the property value threshold for the homeowner grant to help B.C. residents with their housing costs in 2025, according to a Jan. 2 provincial government release
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January 03, 2025
Miller Thomson expands Waterloo office with two lawyers
Miller Thomson announced that lawyers David Jutzi and Lee Sauer have joined the firm as associate counsel, effective Jan. 2, 2025, enhancing the firm’s Corporate M&A and Private Client Services practices in the Waterloo Region of Southern Ontario.
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January 02, 2025
Cassels welcomes 10 new partners in 2025
The following lawyers have been admitted into the Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP partnership for 2025:
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January 02, 2025
Novel family violence tort, solicitor-client privilege & insurance are on the SCC’s winter menu
What does Canadian securities law mean by making timely disclosure of “material” changes? Should the judiciary create a new tort of “family violence”? Were a lawyer’s Charter rights breached as a result of police wiretapping her phone call to a client?
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January 02, 2025
Key deadlines, tax compliance for executors and trustees
I have previously written about executors’ tax compliance responsibilities. In the past two-plus years since that article, there have been a number of changes of which executors and trustees should be aware. This article provides an overview of key tax compliance responsibilities of executors and trustees and highlights some of these recent changes.
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December 24, 2024
B.C. court refuses to certify overdose prevention site class action over lack of common issues
The B.C. Supreme Court has refused to certify a proposed class action alleging private and public nuisance related to disorderly conduct by the users of an overdose prevention site in downtown Vancouver.
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December 24, 2024
New co-chair for real estate service group at DLA Piper
Catherine Gibson is the new co-chair of the Canadian real estate service group at DLA Piper.
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December 23, 2024
Late notice, lost coverage: Ontario Court of Appeal upholds insurer’s denial of defence
Karen Kerk was the designated insured under a home insurance policy (the policy) issued by Security National Insurance Company (the insurer). In 2016, Kerk and her spouse, Daniel Courtney (the applicants) sold their home in Gorham, Ont. (the property) to Danielle Fex and Robert Duncan (the purchasers). Despite Courtney’s representations that there were no water issues impacting the property, the purchasers soon discovered ice damming and mould growth in the home.
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December 23, 2024
Competition watchdog launches two-month public consultation on anti-greenwashing amendments
The Competition Bureau seeks feedback from the bar and the public on the recent anti-greenwashing amendments to the Competition Act.
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December 20, 2024
Trudeau unveils new cabinet with strong legal background as NDP threatens confidence vote
With his faltering government facing a non-confidence motion as early as Jan. 27, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced eight new cabinet ministers whose tenure may last only weeks.