Software as a Service and Cloud Service offerings have become ubiquitous digital platforms for many enterprises and small businesses in their quests to provide a single unified platform...

There are many serene places that your data can reside such as lush farms, large lakes, and different kinds of clouds..

There has been significant media reporting with respect to layoffs across the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In our last article - Mitigating the Company's Risk After an Employee Fraud - we discussed a few of the steps a company should take to preserve evidence, protect its position pending litigation, as well as some costs and benefits ...

Insurance Policies in Canada are steeped in a rich history of drafting, re-drafting, revising, adding, and subtracting - mostly in response to the ever-shifting landscape of risk and legal interpretation.

On December 14, 2018, substantial changes were announced for Alberta's Condominium Property Act and Condominium Property Regulation

The Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Code (the "Code") is a cornerstone of health and safety protections for most Alberta workers.

Busato v Gore Mutual Insurance Company, 2025 BCCA 79 is a recent interesting case from the British Columbia Court of Appeal pertaining to insurance policy exclusion clauses.

Defamation is becoming an increasing issue in Condominiums when Owners are disgruntled with the Board of Directors or Property Managers, when a Board is disagreeing on an issue or when a Board or Property Manager becomes increasingly frustrated with an Owner's actions or with the services provided by an external vendor.

In Norris v Vomacka, 2024 ABKB 312 (https://canlii.ca/t/k4vlg) , the Plaintiff was injured in a motor vehicle accident and sought $150,000 in general damages in addition to a loss of income claim and special damages.

Security National Insurance Company, represented by Associate Noah Hodgson, brought an Application to dismiss the insured's claim pursuant to Rule 4.31 and Rule 4.33 of the Alberta Rules of Court.

Employers are now able to layoff employees for up to 90 days within a 120-day period (up from the current 60 days in a 120-day period).

These enforcement actions appear to be ramping up significantly. Here is a list of the most recent regulatory actions.

The amendments to the Condominium Property Act are expected to change who prepares and registers caveats.

On June 3, 2020, major changes were announced to the Real Estate Act, the legislation that governs realtors, mortgage brokers, appraisers, and property managers in Alberta.

The licensor's (software vendor) objective is to protect itself from any claims resulting from the licensee (business) from breaching the license grant.

By way of our April 16, 2020 article Commercial All-Risks Property Policies and Business Losses in the Age of COVID-19, partner Celeste Small provided a cogent analysis as to how commercial all-risk property policies ...

Privacy is not just a concern for large corporations or highly regulated industries. In Alberta, most businesses have legal obligations to protect employee personal information and to handle that information carefully throughout the employment relationship and even after the employment relationship has ended.

In Russell v Russell, 2024 ABKB 182, Ms. Russell was injured in a single vehicle collision and sought $200,000.00 in general damages for pain and suffering.

The number of self-represented litigants is on the rise in Canada. Data collected by the National Self-Represented Litigants Project in 2017 indicates that approximately 70% of SRLs are plaintiffs or petitioners ...