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On July 7, 2015, Alberta's Premier Rachel Notley directed her Cabinet Ministers to review their Ministries' policies, programs and legislation that may require changes based on the principles of the UN Declaration.

Global Affairs Canada and the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service recently issued an advisory to Canadian companies active abroad or with ties to Xinjiang, China (Advisory).

The Supreme Court of Canada already decided that an equity partner of a law firm in British Columbia was not entitled to protection under that province's human rights legislation.

In recent years it has become increasingly important for companies to be cognizant of human rights issues, particularly when operating abroad.

Canada's human rights laws offer vital protection for individuals whose personal characteristics historically pose barriers to employment and full participation in society.

Like all great tetralogies (a Greek word defined as a compound work composed of four distinct works – Google it), we let the success of our initial trilogy go to our heads

The Supreme Court of Canada determined that Ministers of the Crown have no duty to consult Aboriginal Peoples in the development of legislation, in its October 11, 2018 decision in Mikisew Cree First Nation v. Canada.

Sophisticated businesses operating in Canada often confront a dilemma caused by defence policy objectives of the United States of America.

The Alberta Human Rights Tribunal (the "Tribunal") recently released a quartet of decisions that confirm what evidence an individual must adduce in order to establish that the protected ground...

I recently had the opportunity to present a paper summarizing significant human rights decisions of 2012 at the annual BC Continuing Legal Education conference on human rights law.

On November 28, 2019, through the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act ("DRIPA"), British Columbia formally adopted the standards outlined in the United Nations Declaration...

CORE is just the latest. Businesses can be certain that more legal claims and policy developments will follow.

On March 22, 2021, Canada imposed new economic sanctions against four officials and one entity under the new Special Economic Measures...

The Supreme Court of Canada heard one appeal in January and will hear seven more in February and March that may interest the business community or organizations facing civil litigation

The Supreme Court of Canada has pronounced its long-awaited judgment in the Carter proceedings that tested the constitutionality of Canada’s absolute criminal prohibition on physician assisted death.

On April 6, 2016, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in Good v. Toronto Police Services Board in respect of the certification of a proposed class proceeding on behalf of protestors and other individuals who had been detained at the G20 summit held in Toronto in June 2010.

The defendant Nevsun Resources Inc. ("Nevsun") is a B.C. mining company that entered into a joint venture with Eritrean state companies to develop and operate the Bisha gold mine near Asmara, Eritrea.