Category: Blog

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Personal Injury
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Posted March 9, 2021

The Ottawa Police Service, in conjunction with the Fire Department, Paramedics, Bylaw Services, and Safer Roads Ottawa, have introduced a program to inform motorists of[...]
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Family Law
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Posted March 8, 2021

Co-Parenting brings its various challenges, but the one that parents talk about facing most is hostile communication from the other parent. Even on a good[...]
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Personal Injury
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Posted March 4, 2021

The common law in Ontario is notoriously hesitant of changing too quickly, and the area of tort law is no exception. Nevertheless, the rapid growth[...]
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Business Law, Real Estate
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Posted March 2, 2021

Below is an update to my previous blog, Temporary Ban on Evictions of Commercial Tenants Extended, posted on October 20, 2020. The temporary ban on[...]
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Family Law
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Posted March 1, 2021

On November 20, 2020, the Moving Ontario Family Law Forward Act, 2020 (Bill 207), received Royal Assent and will be proclaimed into law as of[...]
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Practice Management
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Posted February 26, 2021

In Part 1 of this comment (see “Skill Sets # 12: Beware the Bear” ) I addressed the moment when we move from interviewing to[...]
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Employment, Human Rights and Labour
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Posted February 23, 2021

A recent decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Waksdale v Swegon North America Inc., 2020 ONCA 391 has put the enforceability of many[...]
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Wills, Trusts and Estates
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Posted February 22, 2021

Generally when you hear the words Estate Planning, we think of a Will and Powers of Attorney. We also tend to think of this as[...]
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Commercial Litigation
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The recent Court of Appeal decision in Kearns v Canadian Tire Corporation Limited examined when a settlement is enforceable in cases of mistake, specifically when[...]