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Byline: KRISTY KIRKUP; Staff OTTAWA -- The federal government needs to address residential-school denialism by amending the Criminal Code to make it an offence to willfully promote hatred against Indigenous [...]

The federal government's decision this month to confront extremists by listing the registered charity Samidoun as a terrorist entity is an important step in making this country safer for all [...]

Byline: IAN BAILEY; Staff OTTAWA -- In a joint action with the United States, Canada has declared Samidoun, also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a terrorist entity under [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE; Staff A Mississauga man alleged to be one of Canada's most prolific killers is seeking permission to argue at the country's top court that he should not [...]

Background Police observed Petros Negash driving a vehicle with a burnt-out tail light and brake light and pulled him over. Once stopped, Mr. Negash rolled down his driver's side window [...]

There are changes coming to the Criminal Rate of Interest in Canada, and businesses need to be vigilant in making sure that future documentation and policies incorporate these new changes. [...]

Initial Client Consultation From the beginning, personal injury lawyers should focus on actively listening to their clients and asking questions to fully grasp the specifics of their situation. Since each [...]

Sidhu v. Vancouver (City), 2024 BCSC 1735 Background The Plaintiff, Ayisha Sidhu, filed a claim against the City of Vancouver for battery, alleging she was injured by two police officers [...]

The Government of Canada recently introduced the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1 (the 'Budget Implementation Act') and the Criminal Interest Rate Regulations (the 'Regulations') in an effort to crack [...]

On July 22, 2023, the Government of Canada released the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1. Among other things, the Budget Implementation Act amended section 347 of the Criminal Code, [...]

The reality is a lot of us spend a significant amount of time at work; sometimes more than at our own homes. You see your boss and coworkers more than [...]

On June 20, 2024, Bill C-59, the Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act received royal assent. Division 8 of this legislation introduced various amendments to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) [...]

As we have reported in prior blogs, the Government of Canada is moving forward with plans to lower the criminal interest rate to an annual percentage rate (APR) of 35 [...]

The anti-terrorist financing provisions of the Criminal Code (the 'Code') are the critical elements of Canada's counter-terrorism efforts. However, the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 drew attention to [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE; Staff OTTAWA -- Canada is designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the Iranian armed forces, as a terrorist organization under this country's Criminal Code, [...]

Byline: ZOSIA BIELSKI; Staff Before Michelle was diagnosed with HIV, her life was marred in ways unfathomable to most. In the home where she grew up, drugs were dealt and [...]

The police derive statutory powers of arrest from the provisions beginning at section 495 of the Criminal Code. Section 9 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms [Charter] enshrines the [...]

Motor vehicle collisions can happen quickly and without warning. The consequences of such collisions, whether resulting in injury or death, are often life-altering. It is common for someone injured in [...]

As technology has evolved, Canadian authorities have grappled with novel challenges investigating and prosecuting financial crime, including those crimes involving cryptocurrency and other digital assets. Parties affected by these enforcement [...]

On May 13, 2024, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (ONSC) released its decision in Mohawk Council of Kahnaw-:ke v. iGaming Ontario, ruling in favour of the province of Ontario [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- The federal online harms bill needs to be changed to stop religion from being used as a defence for hate speech, say the Bloc [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- The federal government unveiled its longawaited online harms bill, creating a new hate-crime offence that carries a penalty of life imprisonment in the most [...]

Byline: KRISTY KIRKUP; Staff OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says stiffer penalties for auto theft are under consideration to combat what he called an alarming issue. Mr. Trudeau's government [...]

At one time, it was impossible for a man to rape his wife in Canada, legally speaking. The Criminal Code stipulated that a man could only be charged with rape [...]

In late December 2023, the Federal Government issued draft Criminal Interest Rate Regulations under the Criminal Code. These proposed regulations follow the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1 which provided [...]

Background Ontarians will recall the tragic 2009 case where on Christmas Eve, four workers who had recently immigrated from Eastern Europe plunged 13 stories to their death from a swing [...]

On August 11, 2023, the Court of Appeal of Quebec handed down a decision in CFG Construction inc. c. R.,1 dismissing the appeal of the guilty verdict against an employer, [...]

On January 29, 2024, the Intimate Images Protection Act (the Act) and Intimate Images Protection Regulation (the Regulation) will come into force in British Columbia. Under the federal Criminal Code [...]

Byline: ZOSIA BIELSKI, MOLLY HAYES Survivors of sexual violence are lauding changes to Canada's Criminal Code set to give victims more say in courtroom publication bans that previously barred them [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY; Staff OTTAWA -- The Liberal government is facing renewed criticism from senators who say they are being asked once again to pass quickly a large budget bill [...]

Byline: JESSICA DAVIS President of Insight Threat Intelligence and the author of Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century On June 6, in a landmark ruling, a young man [...]

Byline: ROBERT FIFE, STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA -- For more than nine months, the Liberal government has been eyeing a package of measures that could be instrumental in safeguarding Canadian democracy [...]

Peter Khill Gets 8 Years for Manslaughter After the Supreme Court Ordered a New Trial Based on New Self-Defence Guidelines To the surviving family members of Jonathan Styres, the scales [...]

Overview: The Ontario Court of Appeal recently released a pair of decisions1 considering whether events give rise to a 'material change' in the 'business, operations or capital' of publicly traded [...]

Byline: JANICE DICKSON; Staff OTTAWA -- The Liberal government has proposed legislation to amend provisions in the Criminal Code that had prevented humanitarian organizations from working in Afghanistan and hindered [...]

Byline: NAOMI BUCK Toronto-based writer My teenage sons still remember the day when their elementary school was put into lockdown because a fellow student was rampaging through the halls. No [...]

Byline: MARSHA McLEOD; Staff OTTAWA -- Not on the head. Not with a belt, ruler or other object. Not if a child is younger than 2 or older than 12. [...]

In the recent case Tsuu T'ina Gaming Limited Partnership v Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission, 2023 ABCA 135 (Tsuu T'ina GLP), the Alberta Court of Appeal affirmed the chambers [...]

In 2016, the blanket prohibition in the Criminal Code pertaining to voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide was modified to allow such measures where a person is suffering from a 'grievous [...]

On April 20, 2023, following a consultation in 2022, the Government of Canada tabled Bill C-47, the Budget Implementation Act (the 'Bill'). The Bill includes, amongst many other things, amendments [...]

On April 20, 2023, the government of Canada introduced Bill C-47, The Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-47) which proposes to implement many of the federal government's key proposals presented in [...]

In certain circumstances, loan, debt or credit arrangements can take the form of purchase agreements. A party seeking to charge criminally high rates of interest to less sophisticated parties could [...]

On April 20, 2023, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-47, the Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1, an act to implement key commitments put forward in Budget 2023. The [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- The RCMP has searched the Vancouver office of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. to seek information on $2.7million in bank transfers from Ivanhoe to a Swiss [...]

Byline: MARSHA MCLEOD, JANICE DICKSON OTTAWA -- Retired Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour says she is skeptical of Ottawa's plan to implement her recommendations on dealing with sexual misconduct in [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Ottawa is preparing to bring forward a change to an anti-terror law in the new year to make it easier for humanitarian organizations to [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Indecency laws, including a ban on 'immoral theatrical performances,' are set to be reviewed by the federal government in an update of sections of [...]

Byline: ROBERT FIFE; Staff OTTAWA -- An informant working for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, who smuggled three British schoolgirls into Syria for the Islamic State in 2015, breached the [...]

The Quebec Superior Court ('the Court') has ruled that the social media company Snap Inc. ('Snapchat'), which runs the social media application Snapchat must provide subscriber information, transmission data and [...]