"How many hours are you working every day?" This is the question on every summer student's mind when they encounter articling students. It is certainly what I was wondering, and it is what I asked every articling student at every firm I intended on interviewing with.

On November 30, 2020 the Land Owner Transparency Act ("LOTA") came into force together with the Land Owner Transparency Regulation ("LOTR"), to create the Land Owner Transparency Registry...

In this paper on tax planning using private corporations, Minister Morneau sets out a series of proposed tax reforms that could significantly impact private corporations, business owners...

When hiring new employees, it is critical that employers put careful thought into the documents they use to formalize the employment relationship.

As the Province of British Columbia continues to churn through the hundreds of retail cannabis license applications

More than 150 years after being dispossessed of their lands by incoming settlers, and after almost three decades of legal disputes, T'exelcemc, or Williams Lake First Nation ("WLFN").

As a lawyer, maybe you have had that case hanging off the side of your desk – and weighing on your client's mind – that just won't go away. It's the one where the plaintiff has done nothing for years...

The British Columbia government has introduced legislation to modernize the environmental assessment ("EA") of major resource projects

On April 13, 2017 the federal government tabled a bundle of new bills (Bills C-45 and C-46) with the aim of legalizing and regulating the recreational use of cannabis Canada-wide for adults aged 18 and over.

The recent Court of Appeal decision in Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2023 BCCA 373 ("Mercer") cautions employees about making surreptitious/secret recordings in the workplace.

Litigation is messy—no one knows this better than Indigenous communities and individuals who have spent countless decades and dollars trying to prove the rights and title they've held since time...

Since the ceremonial passage of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act ("DRIPA") in November 2019, we have been closely tracking the provincial government's progress in meeting its obligations under the new legislation.

The refusal to approve the proposed law school means that members of the TWU religious community are not free to impose those religious beliefs on fellow law students, since they have an inequitable impact...

More often than not, we see civil court cases and human rights tribunal decisions that highlight poorly conducted workplace investigations and essentially offer a checklist of what employers should not do.

The Court found that the employee was entitled to a bonus for his final year of employment, but not for the portion of his termination period which fell in the following year.

A provincial election has been called in British Columbia for October 24, 2020. Although this year's election falls on a Saturday, many employees may find that their work schedules conflict...

On November 24, 2022, legislative changes to the Judicial Review Procedure Act (the "JRPA") brought section 22 into effect.

Part 1 – Unfettered (but Honest) Termination of Contracts: SCC Issues New Decision on the Duty of Honesty in Contractual Performance.

We recently commented on one of the two key bases for the Federal Court of Appeal's ruling last week that quashed the Federal Government's approval of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (the "TMEX")

For most of 2020, the new year seemed as out of reach as a galaxy far, far away.