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Older Ontarians who give up their driver's licenses have fewer viable alternatives for transportation. While public transportation is improving continually...

New report released on the regulatory and technical issues related to the deployment of connected and automated vehicles.

The Government of Canada has announced plans to combat the increasing number of auto thefts.

In an effort to prevent these tragic and ultimately avoidable accidents, the OPP has sparked an initiative intended to save lives.

Last year, we posted an update about the Supreme Court of Canada's decision to hear an appeal involving Mr. Latif, a Canadian pilot of Pakistani descent.

One of the most interesting and important issues inherent in lawsuits arising from travel-related bookings (and arising in many aviation cases) is the exercise of jurisdiction by local courts over foreign based defendants. In a decision released last summer (in Sinclair v. Venezia), the Supreme Court of Canada considered the jurisdiction of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice over three Italian companies.

It is common practice to lend a vehicle to a family member or a friend. People do it without thinking twice. However, in the case of a car crash on a public road, there are legal implications...

The High-Speed Rail Network, officially named "Alto", will operate between Toronto and Quebec City with stops in Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Laval...

On April 1, 2020, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) published the first dedicated safety standard for fully autonomous vehicles: UL 4600, "Standard for Evaluation of Autonomous Products". UL 4600 is a starting point...

According to Transport Canada's Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement, flight crew member fatigue is a contributing factor in 15 to 20 per cent of aviation accidents.

On March 12, 2009, a Sikorsky S-92A helicopter destined for the Hibernia Oilfield crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Seventeen passengers suffered fatal injuries in the crash and the lone survivor suffered serious injuries.

In relation to our recent Communiqué on the subject, employers in the transportation industry should take particular notice of 802-1-IPG-101.

The English Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling in Rogers v. Hoyle, which held that reports produced by the AAIB are admissible as evidence in civil proceedings.

Transport Canada has announced that both jacketed and non-jacketed DOT-111 tank cars built prior to the introduction of safety standard CPC-12321 must be taken out of service prior to November 1, 2016. This announcement accelerates the previous phase-out timeline which required the phase-out of legacy DOT-111 tank cars by May 1, 2017 for non-jacketed cars and March 1, 2018 for jacketed cars.

According to the Traffic Injury Research Foundation, 27.2% of all road fatalities in 2020 involved a driver under the influence of alcohol. Even at lower blood alcohol levels—between 0.05% and 0.08%...

In its Decision No. 425-C-A-2014, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) directly addressed a person's right to bring a complaint of discrimination.

Accessible Transportation for Persons with Disabilities Regulations (the "Regulations") were published on June 25, 2019, with the majority of its provisions slated to come into force on June 25, 2020