The holiday season is here once again, and this year everyone is ready to celebrate things being (mostly) back to normal.

Late last year the BC Government introduced two important changes to British Columbia's laws: 1) amending the Human Rights Code to specifically list "Indigenous identity"

In early March, the UBC Sauder School of Business hosted the Sauder Summit Global Case Competition...

Verigen v. Ensemble Travel Ltd., 2021 BCSC 1934, is the latest decision of the BC Supreme Court ("BCSC") to provide insights into the impact of COVID-19 on employment contracts and the legality of temporary layoffs.

The injunction against protestors at Fairy Creek has been extended until September 2022. In a unanimous decision made January 26th, the BC Court of Appeal ("BCCA")...

Back in February, we continued exploring the galaxy of Federal employment standards with a look at the new Work Place Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations, which you can read here.

It's an exciting time – the Canadian government is making proactive strides toward reducing greenhouse gases and we are here to get you up to speed! Canada's Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System...

In 2016 the Supreme Court of Canada in R v. Jordan established stricter timelines for criminal trials, stating that "Canadians … rightly expect a system that can deliver quality justice in a reasonably efficient and timely manner."

On April 24, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program.

Introduced in 2016, the British Columbia Societies Act (the "Act") provides a legal framework for organizations dedicated to a non-profit purpose.

On June 1, 2025, British Columbia's general minimum wage rose from $17.40 to $17.85 per hour, marking a 2.6% increase.

Minerals North, a non-profit association that hosts the annual Minerals North Conference, asked us to participate at the 2016 conference in a panel discussion entitled: Working Together and Moving Forward Post Tsilhqot'in.

The RCMP recently raided two cannabis dispensaries on Indigenous Nations land near Chilliwack, BC. While many have questioned the use of police resources to shut down dispensaries...

"The Code does not protect people who refuse to wear a mask as a matter of personal preference, because they believe wearing a mask is "pointless"...

Like all great tetralogies (a Greek word defined as a compound work composed of four distinct works – Google it), we let the success of our initial trilogy go to our heads

On November 28, 2019, through the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act ("DRIPA"), British Columbia formally adopted the standards outlined in the United Nations Declaration...

Many entrepreneurs and founders of start-ups begin developing or operating their businesses personally, as sole-proprietors or even as a general partnership with one or more other founders.

Every day, Canadians are learning more about the regulatory approval and rollout of new COVID-19 vaccines. For many employers, this raises new questions about transitioning their workplaces ...

On September 21, 2020 the Williams Lake First Nation ("WLFN") and the BC government entered into a landmark cannabis agreement (the "WLFN Agreement")

Erin Reimer and Özge Yazar, lawyers in MT+Co.'s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group, recently represented the Tahltan Central Government as an intervenor in the British Columbia Court of Appeal.