On June 16, 2020, the Alberta government introduced the Commercial Tenancies Protection Act (the "Act") via Bill 23.

On Thursday, November 12, 2020, Premier Kenney announced new measures, including certain temporary time limited restrictions, to target the spread of COVID-19.

Under the Income Tax Act, the Employment Insurance Act, and the Excise Tax Act, a director of a corporation is jointly and severally liable for a corporation's failure to deduct and remit source deductions or GST.

Alberta's Bill 84, Business Corporations Amendment Act ("Bill 84"), which received Royal assent on December 2, 2021 and is expected to come into force in early 2022, ...

The Federal Court recently released its decision in Miller v. Canada, upholding a $408,930.63 payment order against the director of a corporation for unpaid wages.

Accommodating employees with disabilities in the workplace can be extremely challenging.

Last year, the new UCP Government introduced a number of positive changes to the Labour Relations Code and Employment Standards Code through Bill 2

With Canada's 42nd general election just around the corner, it is important for employers to know their obligations with respect to allowing employees time off to vote.

The Supreme Court of Canada issued two important decisions today involving the RCMP.

What most would have thought was a pretty clear principle – that an employer whose business is covered by Part III of the Canada Labour Code had the right to dismiss employees without cause – was, for a period of time, cast into doubt by an adjudicator.

Bill 4, An Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services, was introduced in the Alberta Legislature on March 15, 2016.

The case involved a private sector employer, a security company which provides contract security guards for clients.

Businesses and employers face exposure to a variety of claims for mismanagement or misuse of personal information by employees. Damages may depend on how sensitive the information is and how it is misused.

In 2011, the Alberta Utilities Commission ("AUC") issued its decision in the Generic Cost of Capital ("GCOC") proceeding.

The Fort Nelson First Nation ("First Nation") has filed a judicial review of a British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission ("OGC")...

ENvironnement JEUnesse ("ENJEU"), a Quebec-based environmental youth group, has commenced a class action lawsuit in the Superior Court of Quebec.

he Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan has released its opinion regarding the constitutionality of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, SC 2018, c 12 s. 187 (the "Act), the Government of Canada's federal carbon tax regime.

Life insurance is a familiar product to many of us and can be an element of estate planning that should not be overlooked. It is typically used to either create or preserve wealth and can be used in a variety of ways in structuring an estate plan

Today is National Advance Planning Day in Canada. This day is intended to prompt the difficult conversation that most people tend to avoid for the other 364 days a year.

On Monday, March 1st, 2016, Madam Justice S. L. Martin of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta granted the application of a Calgary woman to seek physician-assisted death. The application arose as a result of the Supreme Court's offer of personal exemptions from a four month extension of the suspension of its declaration that provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada forbidding physician-assisted death were unconstitutional.