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When does the duty to consult Aboriginal Peoples arise? What roles can administrative tribunals play in the consultation process?

Addressing complaints of the maltreatment and abuse of athletes continues to be a developing and hot-button issue in Canadian law.

On September 13, 2023, BLG hosted Mr. John McKay, M.P. and independent senator Julie Miville-Dechêne — the twin sponsors of Bill S-211 (the Bill)...

The BC Human Rights Tribunal (the "Tribunal") has issued its first decision relating to discrimination in the context of mandated mask policies.

The federal government recently introduced Bill C-15: An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Bill)

In our Fall 2010 Education Law Newsletter, we discussed the case of "Schafer v. Toronto District School Board", 2010 HRTO 403 (request for reconsideration denied 2010 HRTO 884), in which the Human Rights Tribunal ruled that it would not second-guess a student's Identification, Placement and Review Committee (IPRC) placement.

In a decision dated September 24, 2018, Arbitrator Brian Etherington ruled that Durham Catholic District School Board was permitted by law to impose a requirement for an updated pastoral reference for...

At the time of this article, Ontario's education workers are on strike and Ontario's public schools are closed to students. It is important to note that teachers (licensed teachers) are not on strike...

In the recent case of B.C. Rapid Transit Co. v. Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 7000 (Morzhakov Grievance), [2022] B.C.C.A.A.A. No. 114 (Noonan), Arbitrator Randall Noonan...

As vaccination rates increase, and the province continues to progress through each phase of its reopening plan, one of the biggest questions facing employers is whether to implement a mandatory...

Vaccination has been a hot topic for employers across Canada since a Covid-19 vaccine became reality in late 2020...

The Supreme Court of Canada's landmark decision in R. v. Cope establishes a groundbreaking framework for integrating Indigenous laws into criminal sentencing through the practice of "braiding" legal traditions.

The founders of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) have won a major constitutional challenge against the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which prohibited the implementation of their non-medicalized safer supply program in the context of the toxic drug crisis.

La Cour supérieure de justice de l'Ontario a publié une nouvelle décision d'importance, Caplan v. Atas, 2021 ONSC 670 (« Caplan»), qui reconnaît un nouveau délit, celui de harcèlement par internet.

The Quebec Court of Appeal recently confirmed that an employer’s decision not to consider the application of a former employee who had been dismissed following excessive absenteeism due to alcoholism was not discriminatory, even if the former employee had been sober since his dismissal.

In a ruling handed down by Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal late last month, an employer who had refused to allow a blind employee to use a seeing-eye dog in the workplace was ordered to pay the now-former employee $7,605 in damages.

In Fyffe v University of British Columbia, 2024 BCHRT 88, the BC Human Rights Tribunal released a decision that considered whether the release an employee signed during her termination meeting should...

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (the "Tribunal") recently issued a series of decisions that affects how employers must consider issues relating to allegations of discrimination based on family status.