Friday, February 6

Effective July 1, 2026, changes are coming to the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS). Ensure you are up-to-speed on the impending changes and their expected impacts, including:

• how the move to optional benefits will reshape coverage disputes, affect priority and entitlement challenges, and push more claimants toward tort; and
• what these changes mean for client counselling, policy interpretation, LAT litigation, and broker liability

Prepare your practice for the new AB landscape. Plus get the latest developments in case law, emerging trends, and valuable guidance for handling LAT hearings with confidence.

Regulators and legal practitioners unpack the evolving landscape of stormwater and flood control management and share insight on navigating complex regulatory requirements while mitigating risk in an era of increasing climate-related challenges. Hear diverse points of view on:

• Municipal Risk and Liability: Legal implications and exposure municipalities face in managing stormwater systems and flood mitigation strategies.
• Regulatory and Policy Changes: Recent amendments affecting conservation authorities and their impact on planning and compliance.
• Best Practices and Emerging Trends: Innovative approaches for integrating flood risk management into municipal planning frameworks.

Stay ahead on the role and obligations of municipalities in upholding the duty to consult in the land use planning process, and how to integrate the consultation process into planning and regulatory procedures.

How have judicial review proceedings been affected by the sweeping changes in Bill 185, Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024? Sharpen your legal toolkit on appeals rights respecting zoning by-law and official plan amendments with this session. 

In today’s evolving regulatory landscape, directors and officers face increasing personal exposure to liability in the area of environmental compliance. Environmental law contraventions can have devastating consequences, including lawsuits, penalties and fines, and even imprisonment.

Get critical insights into:

• Statutory duties to actively prevent corporate environmental transgressions;
• Potential consequences following adverse environmental events; and
• Proactive measures to ensure environmental law compliance and safeguard against liability.

Don’t miss your essential review of recent expropriation law decisions and current trends, and what they mean for your clients.

Environmental liability continues to pose complex challenges for insurers, municipalities, and businesses. Take a deep dive into the critical issues surrounding environmental insurance coverage, with a focus on:

Get critical insights into:

• Scope and interpretation of pollution exclusion clauses, and the implications for coverage disputes.
• Duty to Defend: Recent case law and evolving standards governing insurers’ obligations to defend environmental claims.
• Strategic Risk Management: How to draft and negotiate policy language to minimize uncertainty and litigation risk.
• How climate change is influencing the environmental insurance landscape.

Ontario is undergoing an unprecedent volume of planning and land use reform. Walk away with practical advice on how to best protect your clients’ interests in our shifting planning landscape as we unpack:

• Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025
• Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025
• Bill 17, Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025
• Bill 185, Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024
• Changes to the Development Charges Act regime
• Changes to the community benefits charges regime

Environmental prosecutions can have wide-ranging consequences and, depending on the regulator, can have their own jurisdictional nuances. Delve into the legislative, enforcement, and nuances between prosecutorial approaches that arise when environmental offences are prosecuted under different levels of government.

This exceptional annual review will bring you up to speed on the latest in planning case law. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear about the most important decisions of the past year.

Ontario’s landfill landscape is under increasing pressure. With the province projected to run out of landfill capacity within the next decade, the government has begun fast-tracking controversial projects, sparking legal, political, and environmental policy debates across the province.

Hear perspectives on the legal and regulatory challenges associated with siting, reopening, and expanding landfills, and gain a comprehensive understanding of the complex interplay between environmental law, municipal planning, and provincial policy on landfills.