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In an unprecedented visit by the Supreme Court to Québec City in September of 2022, the country's highest court heard the appeal of Mr. Janick Murray-Hall (the Appellant) in his challenge...

The application portal for the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) opened on Monday, April 27, 2020.

Being arrested and facing criminal charges can be one of the most overwhelming experiences in a person's life. Whether it's your first encounter with the law or not, the first court appearance...

In response to the growing complexity and scale of global financial crime, Canada is overhauling its anti-money laundering ("AML") and sanctions regime.

In 2018, Parliament introduced the legislation to bring about those enhancements.

This article opens with an ughh. That eye-rolling moment that the average 2SLGBTQI person encounters fourteen thousand times (approximately) over the course of a life that's otherwise out and proud.

On June 2, 2017, the Ontario Court of Appeal decided, in what it described as a case of first impression, that a taxi company was not vicariously liable for a sexual assault...

Motions brought under rule 30.10 of the Rules of Civil Procedure involve the production of documents by non-parties in civil actions in the Superior Court.

A loving, supportive foster parent can provide a child with a sense of stability, security and safety that may have been completely absent from their life before coming into care.

On December 9, 2014, Bill C-13, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Canada Evidence Act, the Competition Act and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act (Act) – also known as the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act –, received the royal assent.

The defence of consent comes up regularly in civil litigation where sexual assault has been alleged and the defendant admits there was sexual contact...

On April 3, 2014, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced legislation to give victims of crime a more effective voice in the criminal justice system.

On any journey towards healing from a traumatic event there are bound to be setbacks. Hopefully, they will be minor; but sometimes these setbacks might be so destabilizing that you may be left wondering how you will find the resolve to move forward.

In the 2023 Federal Budget, the Canadian federal government expressed its intention to reduce the criminal rate of interest currently set out in the Criminal Code...

On approaching the vehicle, the officers observed an open can of beer and immediately ordered the accused to step out in order to conduct a search pursuant to the Ontario Liquor License and Control Act. A full search of the vehicle revealed 36.5 grams of fentanyl, 18.4 grams of cocaine, and $1,245 in Canadian currency. The accused was charged with drug trafficking offences, among others.

In R v Ward, 2020 ONSC 5808, and Jamieson v Her Majesty the Queen, 2020 NBQB 194, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Queen's Bench

Robert Frost wrote that "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both." The legislation for deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs /remediation agreements)

On December 8, 2016, Bill 87, Protecting Patients Act, 2016, received first reading.