Access to Justice
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April 08, 2025
Built by steel, held by hands: Canada’s persistent betrayal of care workers | Nicola Simpson
What does it say about a country’s immigration values when it fast-tracks permanent residency for undocumented tradesmen while caregivers, mostly women, are forced to race against time and bandwidth for a limited number of pilot program spots?
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April 07, 2025
B.C. court certifies class action over public guardian’s failure to secure benefits for children in care
The B.C. Supreme Court has certified a class action against the province's Public Guardian and Trustee (PGT), alleging that it was negligent and breached its fiduciary duty to children in care by failing to obtain no-cost federal and provincial education benefits for them.
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April 07, 2025
Proposed class action launched against Ford for vehicle transmission issues
A proposed class action has been filed against Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd. for operational issues in vehicles’ transmission.
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April 07, 2025
N.S. Mi’kmaw communities now allowed cannabis stores
Regulated retail cannabis stores will now be allowed to operate on Nova Scotia’s Mi’kmaw reservations.
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April 07, 2025
Antisemitic incidents in Canada reached a record high in 2024, reports B’nai B’rith
B’nai B’rith Canada is reporting that incidents of antisemitism in Canada reached their highest level in 2024 since the Toronto-based Jewish service and advocacy organization began tracking such events in 1982.
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April 07, 2025
Leading digital justice transformation: New Brunswick puts users at centre | Daniel J. Escott
In August 2023, I had the distinct privilege of co-organizing the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice’s (CIAJ) New Brunswick Access to Justice Summit at the University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Law. Our final report on this groundbreaking summit, aptly titled Digital Transformation: Putting People at the Heart of the System, was a watershed moment for New Brunswick and Canada. It marked an essential commitment to ensuring digital transformation serves as a catalyst for genuine, meaningful access to justice, rather than merely institutional modernization.
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April 04, 2025
OHRC endorses statement on race-based health data, finds it aligns with Human Rights Code
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has announced that it is endorsing the Wellesley Institute’s Consensus Statement on Race-Based Data for Health, which calls on all levels of the health-care system, including governments, organizations and health-care providers, to collaborate “to strengthen their capacity for the collection, use and governance of race-based data to address inequities and advance health.”
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April 04, 2025
Proposed class action targets Bell, Sunwing, Air Canada, Montreal airport for delays due to outage
A proposed class action has been brought against discount airline Sunwing, the Montréal-Trudeau airport, Air Canada and Bell for a network outage that occurred at the airport on March 25, causing flight delays of nearly 24 hours.
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April 04, 2025
Ontario court injunction bars solicitation of claimants in $32.5 billion tobacco class action
In a rare move, the Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court has granted an injunction preventing lawyers, law firms or other entities from soliciting potential claimants in the mediated $32.5 billion class action settlement involving three tobacco companies, Canadian provinces and territories, and victims of tobacco use.
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April 04, 2025
New Brunswick investing in start of courts’ digital upgrade
New Brunswick is spending $5 million to kick-start the digital transformation of its courts. In what is being called an investment in greater access to justice, New Brunswick’s government will spend more than $32 million over six years for the technological revamp of the province’s court system, which will include various digital upgrades to the courts, as detailed in an April 3 news release.