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Resources, Articles, & Advocacy

Advocacy | May 30, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of May 26

Legislative Update | May 26, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of May 19

Toronto Passes Controversial 'Bubble Zone' Protest Bylaw: Toronto councillors have passed a bylaw aimed at restricting protests around places of worship, daycares and schools in the city. The bylaw – slated to come into effect on July 2 – allows schools, childcare centres and places of worship to request the city restrict protest within a 50-metre radius around their properties.

Advocacy | May 16, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of May 12

Province Tables Tariff-Era Budget: The Ford government plans to run a substantial deficit of almost $15 billion and spend more than $230 billion this year. On Thursday, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy presented the government’s 2025 budget, a document dominated by the tariff response and how it will impact the economy.

Advocacy | May 16, 2025

OBA Update - Budget 2025

On Thursday, May 15, 2025, the government tabled A Plan to Protect Ontario, the 2025 provincial budget

Article | May 11, 2025

Fishing in a “Lobster Tank”: Non-Party Production Order Granted in Proposed Secondary Market Misrepresentation Class Action

In Mcdonald v. Guyana Goldfields Inc., 2025 ONSC 2431, Justice Morgan granted a third-party production order in the context of a proposed secondary market misrepresentation class action. Guyana Goldfields demonstrates that, despite courts’ gatekeeping role on secondary market misrepresentation leave motions, they may grant preliminary production orders where the requests are narrow, documents can be identified with specificity, the documents are known to exist, and the documents are not in the possession of the defendants.

Legislative Update | May 09, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of May 5

Province Files Appeal Against Injunction Halting Bike Lane Removal: Weeks after being ordered to pause plans to remove bike lanes from three major streets in Toronto, the Ford government says it is filing an appeal against the injunction.

Legislative Update | May 02, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of April 28

Province Proposes Plan to Get ‘Tough on Crime’: The Ontario government is proposing changes to the bail system that it says will protect communities by keeping violent repeat offenders off the streets and behind bars. 

Legislative Update | April 25, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of April 21

Province Takes Control of School Board, Launches Probes at 3 Others: Ontario has taken control of one school board over financial mismanagement, launched financial probes of three other boards and ordered a fifth board to repay costs for a trip to Italy to buy art. New Education Minister Paul Calandra has ordered the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board to repay the cost of the board trip to Italy, as well as the $100,000 spent on art. The province has appointed a supervisor to the Thames Valley District School Board, in London, after it conducted a review in the wake of a staff retreat to Toronto that cost about $40,000. It is also launching investigations at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board and the Toronto District School Board over ongoing financial deficits and spending concerns.