In keeping with its recent renewed interest in establishing robust protections for consumers within the province, the government of Québec tabled a new bill on December 2, 2025 amending the Québec Consumer Protection Act…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection
With the holiday season around the corner, many employers turn their minds to year-end operational adjustments. While operational needs don’t pause for the holidays, the timing of a termination can impact how the decision is…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
At last, a decision that examines the consequences of a tenant of assuming a landlord’s obligations regarding repairs and maintenance, as well as the applicability of holdover rent…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Real Estate - Commercial
Changes to the Insurance Act will create an “Any Willing Provider” framework that will require group insurance providers to allow any pharmacy to dispense drugs that it reimburses on the same terms as it offers to other…
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/ Health, Insurance
British Columbia is reshaping the way employers manage employee illness and injury through amendments to the Employment Standards Act. Bill 11 is now in force and limits an employer’s ability to demand sick notes for short-term…
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/ Health, Labor & Employment Law
A valuable planning tool for purchasers of Canadian companies, the Canadian tax “bump” allows the cost basis of certain corporate assets to be increased (under certain conditions) to their fair market value. This may facilitate…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Taxation
On November 27, 2025, the Governments of Canada and Alberta signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) in which they agreed to collaborate, alongside Indigenous peoples, to develop energy infrastructure that supports resource…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Indigenous Peoples
As the increasingly broad application of artificial intelligence (“AI”) transforms business and society, Alberta is in a unique position to take the lead on developing and hosting the required infrastructure – generally referred…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Real Estate - Commercial, Science, Computers, & Technology, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
With the announcement of Bill 72, the Buy Ontario Act (Public Sector Procurement), 2025, the Government of Ontario is making it clear that domestic suppliers will be prioritized in public sector procurements moving forward…
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/ Construction Law, Government Contracting
In Lundin Mining Corp. v. Markowich, 2025 SCC 39, the Supreme Court of Canada (“Supreme Court”) provided notable guidance on the concept of “material change,” which sets the threshold for timely disclosure. The decision affirms…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
As of January 19, 2026, the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada's (the "Commissioner") revised interpretation of the “significant part of duties” registration threshold set out under section 7 of the federal…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law
A recent decision issued by the Tribunal administrative du Québec (“TAQ”) brings clarity to how non-French expressions may appear on commercial signage in Québec, and in particular how courts will interpret the exception…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property
Because confidentiality incident reporting is mandatory in almost every Canadian province, most private and public sector organizations have some form of incident response strategy – either a formal written process or an ad hoc…
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/ Consumer Protection, Insurance, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Two themes of the November 4, 2025 federal budget were the deployment of technology to make government services more cost-effective and the reduction of regulatory red tape that slows private investment. On November 3, 2025, one…
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/ Business Organizations, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
The Government of Canada has published its much-awaited draft legislation to regulate the issuance of fiat-backed stablecoins by non-prudentially regulated issuers in Canada. Division 45 of Part 5 of Bill C-15 An Act to…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
