Personal Injury
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March 07, 2025
Court stays class action against workers’ compensation regimes over lack of legal representation
An Ontario Superior Court has stayed a proposed class action challenging workers’ compensation regimes across Canada, finding that the plaintiffs were required to retain legal counsel to proceed with the action.
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March 07, 2025
Tobacco companies’ plans of arrangement approved, claims to begin for class action worth billions
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has approved the plans of compromise and arrangement for three tobacco companies, which allows the claims process to begin for a class action against them potentially worth billions of dollars.
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March 07, 2025
Federal government announces expansion of assault weapons ban and additional protections
Pro- and anti-firearms groups were quick to respond to the federal government’s move March 7 to expand its assault weapons ban by an additional 179 specific guns and its introduction of new measures aimed at protecting people from intimate partner violence involving a firearm.
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March 07, 2025
Manitoba introduces list of bills, aims to curb ‘strategic’ lawsuits against public participation
Manitoba’s government has introduced a raft of legislative changes — including one that would allow courts to promptly dismiss “strategic” lawsuits used to shut down participation in “public issues.”
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March 07, 2025
B.C. mayor denied procedural fairness in decision to strip him of his powers, judge says
A B.C. judge has ruled that the mayor of a municipality in the province’s central Interior region was denied procedural fairness when the city’s council voted to censure and sanction him over his alleged promotion of a book disputing some of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s findings on residential schools.
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March 06, 2025
Settlement of over $535M reached to resolve Federal Indian Hospitals class action
The federal government has announced a final settlement agreement worth more than $535 million in the Federal Indian Hospitals class action, which alleged that patients at the facilities suffered verbal, psychological, physical and/or sexual abuse.
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March 06, 2025
N.B. inquest calls for changes after worker's death on home construction site
A coroner’s inquest jury in New Brunswick has made recommendations for improving construction site safety following the death of a carpenter who fell from scaffolding while working on a home.
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March 06, 2025
Embattled Ontario law society CEO ‘no longer employed’ with regulator amid pay hike fallout
Law Society of Ontario (LSO) CEO Diana Miles is “no longer employed” with the regulator after a controversy regarding her salary came to light.
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March 05, 2025
Rate of investigated deaths has significantly increased, reports Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada has released new information on investigated deaths from the Canadian Coroner and Medical Examiner Database, finding higher percentages observed in recent years due to opioid related deaths, and more investigations on males than females.
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March 04, 2025
Canada hits U.S. with counter-tariffs, vows support for workers, businesses hurt by Trump trade war
Canadians must unite to fight back against the “very dumb” tariffs U.S. president Donald Trump has imposed under the “bogus” pretext of stopping fentanyl from entering the U.S. through Canada’s southern border, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in announcing retaliatory tariffs and pledging to provide federal support for hard-hit workers and businesses, as well as to legally pursue trade remedies, if “unwarranted and unreasonable” U.S. tariffs last longer than “a few hours or a few days.”