Saskatchewan residents now have more options when seeking legal help. Amendments to the province's Legal Profession Act have come into force which allows non-lawyers to apply for limited licences to provide certain legal services: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'You can change laws, but culture takes longer,' B.C. minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation says. 10 years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's report, more work needs to be done despite progress: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An Ontario court has dismissed nearly 250 appeals of driving offence convictions after a judge determined they were part of a paralegal’s “scheme” to undermine the province’s demerit point system: www.cp24.com/local/toront...

The Alberta government's plan to add Canadian citizenship markers to provincial driver's licences has been met with skepticism by some legal and immigration experts, who worry the measure is a "disproportionate" solution that the province might have a hard time justifying: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Quebec's government is planning to ban public prayers. The ban on public prayers is expected to be one aspect of a bill whose broader objective is to strengthen secularism in Quebec: www.cp24.com/news/canada/...

Every year, the RCMP receives tens of thousands of photos and videos of suspected child pornography from tech giants, all per Canada's mandatory reporting laws. But even though the majority of these images are not deemed harmful, the RCMP plans to store them for 100 years: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Prominent intervener groups are telling the Supreme Court of Canada that its 2022 practice direction confining their counsel to Zoom and barring intervener lawyers from making submissions in person is hurting their advocacy and restricting access to justice: www.law360.ca/ca/articles/...

Ontario's Court of Appeal will consider a motion by a lawyer who wants to remain anonymous in his dispute with the Law Society of Ontario, which argues that the public – and potential clients – have the right to know that he sexually abused multiple children: www.lawtimesnews.com/resources/pr...

The Quebec government says legal opponents challenging its secularism law at the Supreme Court of Canada are merely rehashing old, failed arguments in an effort to overturn established legal precedent: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal has ruled a challenge to the province's pronoun law can continue: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says it's dealing with a growing number of immigration security screening requests — and immigration lawyers say their clients are coping with long delays as a result: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/imm...

Online age verification systems are sweeping the internet as jurisdictions introduce laws to prevent children from accessing certain content, and a wave of privacy concerns has followed: www.cbc.ca/news/online-...

Canadians' electronic health records need more protections to prevent foreign entities from accessing patient data, according to commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

A potential referendum question on Alberta separating from Canada has been referred to a judge for confirmation that the question doesn’t violate the Constitution: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

A man found guilty for his role in an immigration fraud scheme has had the charges stayed because a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) agent working on the case was accused of intimidating witnesses, then allowed to investigate and clear himself: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An anti-abortion group challenged a 2016 law requiring a buffer zone around abortion clinics arguing that it restricts free speech. A recent Quebec Superior Court decision found that the law does in fact limit freedom of speech, but that limitation is reasonable: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This Globe and Mail opinion piece argues that restorative justice could have offered a better path for everyone involved in the Hockey Canada trial: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

In the fight to better help people with severe and persistent mental illness in Ontario — which can sometimes result in costly detention in jails and hospitals — two opposing camps are lobbying the Ministry of Health in very different directions: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A proposed settlement of up to $60 million has been reached in a class-action lawsuit related to the use of solitary confinement in B.C. correctional facilities: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario's proposed landlord drug liability law would make landlords responsible for preventing drug activity in units: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Government of Canada is investing in the expansion of Drug Treatment Courts in Saskatchewan: www.newswire.ca/news-release...

Quebec restaurant owners can now charge a fee to people who make a reservation but don't show up. Under new rules in effect today, restaurants can charge up to $10 for each no-show: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/new...

Nine First Nations in Ontario are seeking a court-ordered injunction that would prevent the federal and provincial governments from using newly passed laws to fast-track infrastructure projects: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quebec's government is being urged to show leniency toward a Montreal college facing a $30-million fine for enrolling too many students in its English-language programs. The 2022 Quebec language law limits enrollment in English-language programs: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/que...

A family lawyer in Swift Current, Sask., says he and his colleagues are seeing a growing number of marriages break up over what he describes as 'radicalization,' potentially due in part to online misogyny feeding to a culture of coercion and abuse: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Lawsuits over dupes are popping up in courts. But depending on how similar the items are, and the rights a company holds, dupes may or may not cross legal lines: www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Since November, the federal government and the judiciary have been quietly clashing in front of a quadrennial commission reviewing federally appointed judges’ compensation. At issue is whether judges’ annual salary is enough to keep attracting top legal applicants: nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Ontario's Court of Appeal will not reassess its finding that the Law Society of Ontario acted fairly when it responded to cheating on 2021 licensing exams by voiding some prospective lawyers’ registration in its licensing process: www.lawtimesnews.com/resources/pr...

The chief justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court says all criminal trials that were to take place in Vancouver, Abbotsford, Chilliwack and New Westminster during the FIFA World Cup next year will have to be rescheduled: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

All-Inuit law firm in Iqaluit seeks to break down barriers to justice system: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

British Columbia residents are struggling to access public legal education and information, according to the "Flourishing: A Plan to Strengthen Public Legal Education and Information" report published by Allard Law: www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general...

A novel Federal Court action that tried to compel Ottawa to fix its chronic tardiness in filling superior court vacancies has been dismissed for lack of jurisdiction by the Federal Court of Appeal: www.law360.ca/ca/articles/...

A Nova Scotia judge is ordering the provincial Crown to cover a $190 round-trip taxi fare for an accused sex offender whose hometown courthouse in Windsor, N.S., is being closed, forcing his trial to be heard at a justice centre a 40-kilometre drive away: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The federal government says it will introduce legislation to implement open banking at its “earliest opportunity”. Open banking is about allowing Canadians and businesses to securely share their financial data with third parties other than their banks: globalnews.ca/news/1124571...

The Supreme Court of Canada quashed a sexual-assault conviction against a B.C. man in a precedent-setting decision that strengthened the “rape shield” law, ruling that even a complainant’s lack of a sexual past can’t be brought up in court: vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

A network of specialized courts introduced by the Quebec government in 2022 to hear cases of conjugal violence and sexual violence exclusively is in place in 24 of the province’s 36 judicial districts; by law the rest, must be up and running by Nov. 2026: www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

Starting on Friday, June 20, federal employers will no longer be able to use replacement workers, also known as “scabs,” to do the jobs of unionized employees during legal strikes or lockouts: dailyhive.com/canada/anti-...

Following the New Brunswick auditor general's finding that some people might not be getting the legal help they need under eight-year-old eligibility criteria, N.B.'s Legal Aid Services Commission says a review of the financial eligibility for aid would be appropriate: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"In Canada we have a strong legal system," Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner said at his annual news conference on Parliament Hill last week. "We have to defend those institutions. We should not take anything for granted": www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Community legal clinics across northern Ontario are working together to address sexual harassment in the workplace by providing free legal advice and support to victims, one of the organizers said: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Some low-income New Brunswickers who need legal help with criminal or family matters may not be getting it because the criteria for legal aid eligibility haven't been reviewed for eight years, the province's auditor general says: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Quebec government has been ordered by the Superior Court to pay $164 M in compensatory damages for knowingly violating the rights of thousands of individuals who were arrested and illegally detained for a longer period of time than permitted by the Criminal Code: www.law360.ca/ca/accesstoj...

Canada’s new minister of artificial intelligence says he’ll put less emphasis on AI regulation and more on finding ways to harness the technology’s economic benefits: halifax.citynews.ca/2025/06/10/n...

The Quebec government says it won’t appeal a court decision overturning a university tuition hike for out-of-province students: www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

The Safer Municipalities Act, which passed last Tuesday in the Ontario Legislature, aims to clear encampments from public spaces but does not address the root causes behind homelessness and punishes people who have no access to affordable shelter, critics say: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This opinion piece in the Globe and Mail looks at barriers and unjust assumptions related to the ability of people with cognitive and developmental disabilities to make a will: www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

Canada's Department of Justice will lay off up to 264 employees due to “significant budgetary pressures.” The department told impacted workers this week that their services may no longer be required as part of the coming workforce adjustment: ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

A recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruling found that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario breached procedural fairness. Critics say it reflects a broader pattern of delays and declining access to justice in the tribunal system: www.law360.ca/ca/accesstoj...

Bill C-3 would automatically give citizenship to anyone who would be a citizen today if not for the first-generation limit. Currently, a Canadian citizen born outside Canada cannot pass their citizenship to their kid if that child was also born outside the country: www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...