Articles 2025

Recent updates in Ontario and Federal pension legislation, regulatory policy, caselaw and taxation.

In the fast-paced world of construction, delays can pose significant challenges to project success. In this Breaking Down the Walls series we simplify the fundamentals of construction delays, providing readers with the necessary tools to proactively identify and assess delays on their own projects in Canada, and focus on the damages that are often claimed as a result of schedule delay.

The type of property interest a mining company has in the lands dictates the manner in which liens are preserved and perfected. Consequently, when liening lands on which a mine is located the paramount consideration is determining the nature of the owner’s interest in the mining claim.

This is the third article in the 2024-2025 Newsletter’s Reflections series, featuring reflections on extraordinary careers by senior counsel in the construction bar.

This is the second article in the 2024-2025 Newsletter’s Reflections series, featuring reflections on extraordinary careers by senior counsel in the construction bar.

Please find our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the weeks of December 23 to 27 and December 30, 2024, to January 3, 2025.

In Sanis Health, 2024 SCC 40, the Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of B.C.’s “multi-Crown class action” legislation, giving the green light to the opioid health care cost recovery lawsuit brought by B.C. on behalf of all provinces, territories, and the federal government. Even more importantly, the Supreme Court commented for the first time on the validity of the national class actions model, and delivered a ringing endorsement of the status quo.