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By: Drew Yewchuk and Shaun Fluker Report Commented On: 2024 AER Liability Management Performance Report PDF Version: Grading the 2024 AER Liability Management Performance Report In November 2025, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) published the 2024 Liability Management Performance Report (2024 Report). This is the third AER Liability Management Performance Report to the public on […]... more »
The Supreme Court of Canada’s (“SCC”) decision in R v Larocque, 2025 SCC 36 [Larocque] addresses the scope of the evidentiary shortcuts available to the Crown in impaired driving prosecutions. Specifically, the SCC clarified what must be proven before the statutory presumption that breath test... more »
Midlife divorce in Ontario is increasingly initiated by women. Why does the “walkaway wife” phenomenon happen and what can couples do before it’s too late? more »
Each month, we tell you which three English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For this past month, the three most-consulted English-language decisions were: 1. Sullivan v. Cul... more »
Each month, we tell you which three English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For this past month, the three most-consulted English-language decisions were: 1. Sullivan v. Cul... more »
Questions of parentage occasionally arise in estate litigation. A person may die intestate (without a will) and the status of a ‘descendant’ child may be questioned. Alternatively, a deceased person may leave a will that excludes someone who makes a claim to be the will-maker’s child, prompt... more »
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This past week, I was invited to speak with a client’s employees for International Data Privacy Day about “Privacy, Online Fraud, and What You Can Do About It”. There were a few hundred people on the call and I’m told it was well-received. So I’ve decided to take that presentation and turn... more »
La Chaire L.R. Wilson est partenaire de cette conférence organisée par le Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC), qui accueillera Bruce Schneier, figure de renommée internationale en cybersécurité et en gouvernance des technologies. Dans cette conférence intitulée The Coming A... more »
On October 28, 2025, the Court of Appeal of Alberta affirmed that the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (the OIPC) acted unreasonably in narrowly construing the teaching and research records exclusion in the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA... more »
The Supreme Court of Canada has released its annual report 2024 Year in Review. The report covers the Court's activities over the past year, including information about decisions and statistics. From the message of the Chief Justice of Canada, Richard Wagner: "In our democracy, legitimacy depends... more »
During their meeting at the Rideau Club in Ottawa, a few days before Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation (September 30th). Wayne Garnons-Williams and Michael Woods reviewed the work of the International Inter-Tribal Trade and Investment Organization (IITIO) [https://iitio.org/] in pr... more »
The following pieces of legislation received annotations in Quickscribe Online in January: Family Law Act - John-Paul E Boyd QC, John-Paul Boyd Arbitration Chambers Local Government Act, Community Charter - Don Lidstone, QC, Lidstone & Company Business Corporations Act - Debby Cumberford... more »