JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Nicolas will appear at the Québec courthouse on December 1 to face three charges under the Canadian Criminal Code, including leaving Canada to facilitate terrorist activity, facilitating terrorist activity and providing property for terrorist purposes. This investigation, however, was unrelated to the assassination of president Moïse.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters to his cabinet fell under an exemption of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) on Friday. Here, the court unanimously found that Section 12(1) of FIPPA exempts information that qualifies as “substance of deliberations.”

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2021

The Public Health Agency of Canada announced Monday the easing of travel restrictions for fully vaccinated individuals starting August 9 for US citizens and permanent residents, and September 7 for other foreign nationals. All travelers are required to be fully vaccinated by Canadian standards at least 14 days prior to entering Canada.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada agreed on Thursday to hear prosecutors’ appeal of a decision that overturned a man’s conviction for firearms offences because he was arrested after a person he was with called emergency services to report a drug overdose. In the case His Majesty the King v. Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Justice Robert W.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

An Ontario, Canada jury found Nathaniel Veltman guilty of the first-degree murders of Yumnah Afzaal, her parents Madiha and Salman Afzaal, and grandmother Talat Afzaal in a hate-motivated attack. This attack comes at a time amid rising hate crimes against Jews, Muslims and Catholics in Canada. The deceased victims were 15-74 years old.

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JURIST

MARCH 11, 2023

Chief Justice Richard Wagner, after a conversation with Brown, placed him on leave from the court on February 1 as a result of the investigation. Brown was in Arizona for the awarding of the O’Connor Justice Prize to former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louise Arbor. Brown provided the council with his response on February 20.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2024

During his 2022 Canada tour, in the Notre Dame Basilica in Quebec, the Pope acknowledged the church’s history of sexual abuse in Canada, noting that “firm action and irrevocable commitment” is required. The Quebec class action suit is still pending without a set trial date.

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APRIL 11, 2022

Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada. Bill C-18, “An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada” ( Online News Act ), passed introductory first reading in the Canadian House of Commons last Tuesday amid early controversy. He files this dispatch from Calgary. .

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Mondaq

JUNE 16, 2022

In the first video of our IPO essentials series, Kevin Morris and Leah Frank of our Capital Markets group highlight what business leaders should be thinking about in leading up to an IPO, including.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

This comes just 10 months after IPH purchased Canada’s largest IP firm, Smart & Biggar. Ridout & Maybee will merge into Smart & Biggar, further consolidating IPH’s presence in Canada. IPH’s strategy is to dominate secondary IP markets like Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel , a product developed in partnership with OpenAI that uses the GPT-4 large language model to assist lawyers with a variety of tasks. In Canada and Australia, CoCounsel was already in use in a proof-of-concept phase in two firms, McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Canada and Maddocks in Australia.

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JURIST

MAY 11, 2022

The Court of Appeal of Alberta Tuesday ruled that Canada’s environmental Impact Assessment Act is unconstitutional. The act required some entities pursuing projects which may cause environmental harm, or harm to indigenous communities, to seek an impact assessment from Canada’s Impact Assessment agency in advance.

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JURIST

MAY 21, 2022

Each of the sanctioned businesspeople are reported to have fortunes upwards of USD $1 billion and close ties to the Kremlin. After sanctions from both Canada and the US, Frank sold his shares in both companies in an attempt to shield them from direct sanctions.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2022

Canada’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carolyn Bennett Tuesday announced that her office is temporarily decriminalizing some drug possession crimes in British Columbia to address the province’s overdose crisis. million Canadian dollars through BC’s Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Canadian law students are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Canada. Mélanie Cantin is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada and a 2L at the University of Ottawa. This email was sent around 1 a.m. on February 14, the same day the Act was invoked by the federal government.

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Mondaq

MARCH 8, 2022

With Canada's environmental landscape in constant flux, staying up to date on related legislative changes and potential pitfalls is vital for businesses.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Provincial minimum wage rates were increased to their current rates on October 1, 2021. Just one month later, on November 2, 2021, Ontario announced that because the cost of living has increased.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Regulations effective October 1, 2021, indicate that all private sector employers in Saskatchewan may require employees to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or be tested on a regular basis.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

On 11 January 2024, the Apostille Convention entered into force for Canada. The accession of Canada to the Apostille Convention on 12 May 2023 was a milestone for the Apostille Convention and it is perhaps a development that has gone under the radar. 1(3)(a) of the Apostille Convention). 1(3)(a) of the Apostille Convention).

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2023

48(1) of Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act (HTA) to conduct random sobriety stops on private property. 48(1) authority “cannot be used by police to carry out a random sobriety stop on private property on the basis that the driver was on the highway at the time the police officer formed the subjective intention to stop them.”

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

January 1, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the capital gains tax in Canada. In this article, we outline the history of capital gains taxation in Canada.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2023

Other countries have banned the app from government-issued devices, including countries such as Australia and Canada , as well as the EU. In Montana, the new law goes into effect beginning on January 1, 2024. While the US has not yet issued a nation-wide ban, other countries have, such as Afghanistan, India and Taiwan.

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2021

Working with the RCMP, the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), the Ministry of the Attorney General, and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, they determined and announced on Monday the alleged acts of Veltman constitute terrorist activities. The added terrorism charge is pursuant to section 83.03(1)(b)

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The Fashion Law

JULY 22, 2021

Canada Goose is facing off against a similarly-named outerwear company that it claims is intentionally mimicking the “look and feel” of its products and logos. At the same time, Canada Goose claims that its trademarks have “acquired substantial goodwill and are an extremely valuable commercial asset” as a result.

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Mondaq

APRIL 28, 2022

On April 11, 2022, the Ontario government's Bill 88, the Working for Workers Act, 2022, received royal assent.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency in the city Sunday, more than a week after a trucker-led protest against pandemic-related restrictions virtually shut down the city centre in Canada’s capital. I got followed down the street, I’m so afraid that I can’t go out.'”

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MARCH 12, 2024

Thomson Reuters today brings its generative AI legal assistant CoCounsel Core to the United Kingdom, following its initial rollout in the United States and expansion last month into Australia and Canada. Casetext launched CoCounsel on March 1, 2023 , helping to fuel a frenzy of legal tech companies developing generative AI products.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 6, 2021

British Columbia recently released the long-awaited regulations to the high-cost credit legislation it introduced in 2019 as part of the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 2019.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada yanked the citizenship application after learning of the conviction under Putin’s draconian laws. Notably, the charge was based on two blog posts that Kartasheva wrote and published in Canada. The problem is that Canada is legally not that different from Russia on free speech.

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Mondaq

MARCH 14, 2022

The uptick of cryptocurrency adoption since fall 2020, along with the expansion of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, have made stablecoins a major player in the digital assets space.

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Mondaq

APRIL 6, 2022

Amount A applies to companies with global turnover above €20 Billion, and. profitability above 10%.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 9, 2022

Whether it's early days of a new condominium or thereafter, condominium corporations should be mindful of a number of important deadlines.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Green Party leader Annamie Paul continued her campaign from Toronto on Tuesday highlighting the importance of food security.

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Mondaq

APRIL 7, 2022

With the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions and immigration doors re-opening, there should be no shortage of cranes in the ground over the next few years.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 13, 2021

A federal court has handed down a bit of a mixed ruling in a lawsuit accusing Canada Goose of misleading consumers about the nature of the trapping methods used to source the fur for its buzzy jackets by claiming that it is dedicated to “the ethical, responsible, and sustainable sourcing and use of real fur.” and Canada. and Canada.

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JURIST

MAY 3, 2021

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) on Friday held that police officers cannot sue Crown prosecutors over actions they claim damaged their reputation. In an 8-1 decision, the SCC found that the police cannot sue Crown prosecutors for misfeasance, the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Amateur sport ought to be a positive and safe experience. It should not cause physical harm beyond unavoidable hazards. The Whyte review, released earlier this year.

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