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Federal Impact Assessment: Legislative Amendments and Cabinet Directive

The Canadian government recently enacted the highly anticipated amendments to the Impact Assessment Act (IAA). These amendments, which came into force on June 20, 2024, address the constitutional overreach in the IAA, as...more

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Protection de l’environnement : le gouvernement du Québec veut légaliser l’expropriation déguisée

L’Assemblée nationale a adopté, le 8 décembre dernier, des dispositions qui impacteront de manière draconienne les propriétaires dépossédés de leur terrain par un règlement municipal. Atteinte justifiée au droit de...more

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Supreme Court of Canada Finds Impact Assessment Act Unconstitutional

On October 13, 2023, in a 5-2 split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) found the federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA) to be, in part, unconstitutional in Reference re Impact Assessment Act. The SCC determined that the...more

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Ontario Court of Appeal Issues Decision in The Catalyst Capital Group Inc. v West Face Capital Inc.

The Ontario Court of Appeal, following the guidance issued by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1704604 Ontario Ltd. v Pointes Protection Association1 (Pointes Protection) and Hansman v Neufeld2 (Neufeld), has issued its...more

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Canada’s Top Court Confirms Anti-SLAPP Motions Protect Speakers, Not Plaintiffs

The Supreme Court of Canada, in commenting on anti-SLAPP legislation for the third time in the span of three years, has confirmed that even potentially meritorious claims must be dismissed if the public interest in the...more

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La CSC confirme à l’unanimité le principe de la publicité des débats judiciaires et s’exprime sur la protection de la vie privée

Dans l’affaire Sherman (Succession) c. Donovan, la Cour suprême du Canada (la « CSC ») a confirmé à l’unanimité que la primauté du principe de la publicité des débats judiciaires est essentielle au bon fonctionnement de la...more

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Supreme Court of Canada Affirms Court Openness, Addresses Privacy, in Unanimous Decision

In Sherman Estate v Donovan, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) unanimously affirmed the primacy of the open court principle, which is critical to democracy and can only be restricted where there is a serious risk to another...more

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Anti-SLAPP Litigation: Ontario Court of Appeal Applies Recent SCC Decisions

Four months after the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled on the test for Ontario’s anti-SLAPP legislation, the Ontario Court of Appeal (OCA) has released two companion decisions overturning a motion judge’s pre-SCC rulings,...more

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La CSC clarifie le test relatif à la loi ontarienne contre les poursuites-bâillons, mais est divisée

Le 10 septembre 2020, la Cour suprême du Canada (la « CSC ») a rendu ses décisions tant attendues dans les affaires connexes 1704604 Ontario Ltd. c. Pointes Protection Association (l’« arrêt Pointes ») et Bent c. Platnick...more

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Pointed Exchange: SCC Clarifies Ontario’s Anti-SLAPP Test, Splits Over its Application

On September 10, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released long-awaited decisions interpreting and applying Ontario’s anti-SLAPP legislation, in the companion cases of 1704604 Ontario Ltd. v. Pointes Protection...more

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SLAPPed Around—Defamation, Anti-SLAPP Legislation and the Defence of Qualified Privilege

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On September 10, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered judgment in Bent v Platnick, 2020 SCC 23, the first case interpreting the provisions under s. 137.1 of the Courts of Justice Act (CJA)—Ontario's "anti-SLAPP"...more

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