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Four mainly First Nations organizations were granted leave to intervene in a proposed class proceeding in September by Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Lise Favreau in a ruling released on June 12. In B.M. v. Ontario, 2026 ONCA 422, Justice Favreau said the Anishinabek Nation, the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), the Chiefs of Ontario and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation will be able to participate as friends of the court in an appeal of a motion judge’s decision to dismiss a claim as a class proceeding.
After a lengthy trial, Jeffrey Brian Ber was found guilty on Sept. 18, 2024, of two counts of fraud over $5,000 and one count of accepting a secret commission. He appealed to the Alberta Court of Appeal, arguing that the trial judge committed several legal and evidentiary errors that undermined all the verdicts.
The evil that men do reaches its lowest ebb in acts of pedophilia and, with the advent of the internet, in “sextortion” and emailing lewd pictures. But is it always men who engage in such activity?
On Aug. 1, 2026, the remaining provision of the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 2025 (Bill 4-2025) will come into force, following an announcement on Feb. 9, 2026, by the B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General.
“You don’t go to prison to make friends” is one of the aphorisms new prisoners often hear. Connections with other people are fundamental to human life; we all need meaningful relationships with others. There’s lots of evidence that a lack of human connection is bad for our physical and mental health. But human connection takes on a very different form when you are in prison.
When a survivor of sexual violence steps forward to engage with the criminal justice system, they do so under the comforting myth of state neutrality — the belief that the law exists to heal a breach, discover the truth and deliver accountability. Yet, for decades, feminist legal scholarship and the lived realities of survivors have told a radically different story.
There was a late-night gunfight outside Karma Nightclub in St. Catharines, Ont., on Sept. 29, 2019. The Crown had to prove that Jamar Stephens was one of the shooters. It did. A jury convicted Stephens on a multi-count indictment charging him with various offences arising from the shooting.
The Supreme Court of Canada says it will continue to provide the bar, litigants and the public with all its usual services from its historic courthouse in Ottawa while its judges and registry staff undertake a phased move to the court’s temporary facilities across the street during the months of July and August.
Restitution orders are often imposed to require a convicted offender to compensate a victim for the victim’s direct, quantifiable loss caused by the crime. Restitution is often considered a rehabilitative sentencing tool, providing the victim with a swifter, more direct path to compensation rather than relying on a civil judgment.
A recent judicial ruling recognizing homelessness as an analogous ground of discrimination under s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has come under fire as “judicial activism.” (Waterloo (Regional Municipality) v. Dugas, 2026 ONSC 2971.)