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On Friday, March 27, 2020, Premier Kenney announced new restrictions on businesses accessible to the public and limited "public facing services" to "essential services".

Following the 2016 wildfires in the Fort McMurray area, ATCO Electric Ltd. (ATCO) applied to the Commission to recover $15 million from Customers as compensation for costs incurred as a result...

The federal government has recently passed the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act[1] (the "Act") for the stated purpose of addressing...

Much has changed since December 31, 2019 when the Coronavirus (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan, China. What started as an unprecedented virus has now been declared a ...

On December 14th, 2019, the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (the "CCDC") released its new CCDC 2 – 2020 Stipulated Price Contract. This replaced the earlier 2008 version of the contract.

Insurance tends to be the sort of thing that is great to have when you need it, but at all other times, it's mostly an undesirable and expensive side-effect of doing business – similar, one would imagine, to how people view lawyers.

Construction disputes are often comprised of competing claims for delay, non-payment, deficiencies, and the like. Where one party to the dispute pleads set-off...

In Gowrishankar v JK, two physicians and Alberta Health Services ("AHS") (collectively referred to as the "Applicants") sought judicial review of an adjudicative order of the Office ...

Cyber-bullying grabbed headlines across Canada again this year, triggering Nova Scotia to pass a special law aimed at stamping it out in schools.

The Canadian Construction Documents Committee (the "CCDC") recently replaced its 2008 version of the CCDC 2...

On March 17, 2020, our Labour & Employment team presented a Webinar on Workplace Readiness and Pandemic Planning. A recording of the Webinar can be purchased here.

In a recent decision, Blackmore Management Inc. v Carmanah Management Corporation ("Blackmore"), the British Columbia Court of Appeal confirmed that once invoked, ...

Jones and Wayfair come on the heels of other recent decisions from Ontario where these phrases in termination clauses caused concerns about enforceability.

Last week we provided you with an update on the new Bill within a couple of hours of it being tabled in the Legislature, which was based on a briefing by the Ministry without seeing the actual legislation.

Budget 2019 proposed a new type of annuity, the advanced life deferred annuity (ALDA), to provide greater flexibility to Canadians managing their retirement savings.

A recent decision of the Alberta Court of Queen's bench sheds light on the application of the oppression remedy in the context of a matrimonial dispute and highlights the importance of anticipating potential shareholder disputes.

On June 22, 2023, the new changes to the reportable transaction regime became law when the legislation received Royal Assent. We previously raised concerns over the broadness of the language in the draft legislation.