Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Tariffs (and threats of tariffs) have been keeping business leaders up at night across Canada and the United States since the inauguration of President Trump.

While the topic of U.S. tariffs has dominated recent headlines and turned the attention of business leaders and legal advisors to supply chain matters, often there are more basic legal considerations at play.

Le Canada fait actuellement face à une incertitude concernant la nouvelle série de tarifs imposés par les États-Unis.

Since the first Ontario labour arbitration award was released in November 2021, a consensus has emerged that mandatory vaccination policies are reasonable in many...

In Croke v. VuPoint Systems Ltd., 2023 ONSC 1234, Ontario's Superior Court of Justice decided that an employee's refusal to comply with mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements...

We have been blogging a lot about how COVID-19 vaccine mandates have impacted workplace law, and now we can add one more context to our catalogue.

Leslie Sand of Brooks, Alberta, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail and fined nearly $800,000 for defrauding the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) through fake COVID-19 subsidy claims and tax evasion.

A recent decision of the Canada Industrial Relations Board (Board) affirms that COVID-19 tests are not considered genetic tests under the genetic testing provisions of the Canada Labour Code (Code)...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the legal world has experienced many changes – arguably much-needed changes – which have allowed for more remote access to legal services.

In 2023, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) released its highly anticipated decision in Workman Optometry Professional Corporation v Certas Home and Auto Insurance Company (Workman).

Further, to my previous blog on Workman Optometry Professional Corporation v. Certas Home and Auto Insurance, 2023 ONSC 3356, an appeal of the action was heard on June 12, 2024.

In SIR Corp et al v Aviva Insurance Company of Canada, 2023 ONCA 778, the Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed that restaurants' loss of food and beer inventories as a result of government mandated...