Articles 2025

A review of recent court decisions addressing Criminal Code s. 278 applications in sexual-offence based cases where the records sought are youth records.

A link to the latest amendments to the Notice to the Profession - Toronto, which include updates to the Registrars in Bankruptcy section (Section F).

In a recent decision, the Court of Appeal for Ontario found that the University of Waterloo discriminated against a student applicant on the basis of disability in refusing admission. The decision provides helpful insight into how educational institutions can meet the substantive and procedural aspects of the duty to accommodate in their student admission processes.

A school board was recently found vicariously liable for historical sexual abuse that the plaintiff was subjected to by her high school teacher.

Important legislative amendments to provisions of the federal Divorce Act, RSC 1985, c 3 (2nd Supp) took effect on March 1, 2021. These amendments were made through Bill C-78 and were originally scheduled to come into force on July 1, 2020; however, the Government of Canada deferred the effective date to March 1, 2021 due to the extraordinary circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A recent decision by Justice Steele in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has brought some much-needed clarity for road building contractors seeking to uphold (or overturn) an interim-binding decision of a referee under MTO’s dispute resolution procedures.

The article discusses a viewing of L’Inspecteur (The Inspector) at CBA at the Movies, which deals with the issue of prohibition of French language instruction in Manitoba public schools from 1916 to the late 1960s.

This article reviews the significance of changes to the Child, Youth and Family Services Act (Ontario, 2018) and the federal legislation An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families (2020) on child protection proceedings and Indigenous youth.

This article discusses the changes to Tarion, the new Home Construction Regulatory Authority that regulates new home builders and vendors in the province, and the changes to registration fees.