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The Court upheld the prior decisions of the Alberta Court of Appeal and Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, finding that the termination of an employee with a cocaine addiction was due to the employee's breach of a Drug and Alcohol Policy...

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is continuing to revise and supplement its holistic approach to regulating. The AER released revisions to Manual 023 effective May 3, 2022...

The Energy Disruptors: Unite 2022 (EDU) conference took place in Calgary recently, bringing together trailblazing "disruptors", ranging from industry leaders to institutional investors...

Potash is a critical mineral used as a replenishing agricultural fertilizer. As a result, millions of farmers around the world depend on potash.

More than US $150 billion in "green bonds"—bonds that fund projects that provide environmental benefits according to guidelines developed by the International Capital Markets Association...

On February 12, 2019, the British Columbia government announced plans to introduce legislation that implements the UNDRIP (the Legislation), as part of the provincial government's reconciliation objective.

The Supreme Court of Canada begins three days of hearings today into the federal government’s proposed amendments to the election and term limits of Senators.

Due in large part to greater awareness of the strategic value of representation and warranty insurance (RWI), an increasingly competitive underwriting market in Canada ...

An infringer's liability to compensate a patent owner may not end when the patent expires. The Federal Court has made a novel award of "springboard" profits, requiring an infringer to account...

On January 20, 2015, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) issued revisions to its Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS), found in Memorandum D22-1-1 Administrative Monetary Penalty System.

The Court's decision confirms that, despite the uncertainty introduced by the Supreme Court of Canada in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 and Wastech Services Ltd v Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, 2021 SCC 7, the bar for overturning an arbitral award on the basis of procedural unfairness or inadequacy of reasons remains high in Alberta, and dismissed the challenge in its entirety.

Azar v Strada Crush Limited, 2021 ONSC 4758 reinforces the importance of the finality principle in the class actions context and that defendants should not face a "revolving door of representative plaintiffs."

The Limitation Act, SBC 2012, c 13 is intended to simplify the process for civil claims and bring B.C.'s limitation periods in line with the modern approach adopted in many other provinces, including Alberta.

In MM Fund v. Excelsior Mining Corp. (MM Fund), the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a decision striking a plaintiff's certification application because the plaintiff mutual fund was not a resident of British Columbia.

The electronic communications provisions of Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) came into force on July 1, 2014.

On February 16, 2017, Bennett Jones hosted a networking lunch with the Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association to discuss recent Canadian project experience in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus.

While taxpayers have initiated a number of civil claims against the CRA, alleging everything from negligence to fraud, these claims are rarely successful.

In June 2022, the World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded negotiations on the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement (FSA), an important multilateral pact addressing state-sponsored subsidies...