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Door open for rescission of surety bonds despite potential impact to third parties

November 3, 2022 | Lori Goldberg, Emma L. Johnston, Danielle M. Bouchard

Breaking Ground: MT Construction Law Ontario Edition

The recent decision of Urban Mechanical Contracting Ltd. et al v Zurich Insurance Company Ltd., 2022 ONCA 589 (“Urban”) has sent waves through the construction industry. In Urban, the Ontario Court of Appeal refused two applications seeking to overturn a […]

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British Columbia Court of Appeal clarifies the test for civil fraud in the insurance law context

November 3, 2022 | Caitlin VanDuzer, Noah Robinson-Dunning

MT Insurance Law Blog

Introduction In Singh v Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2022 BCCA 320, the BC Court of Appeal reaffirmed the test for civil fraud in the insurance law context. Specifically, the court dismissed the defendants’ appeal, in which they argued that […]

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Right of appeal under Alberta’s Arbitration Act

November 2, 2022 | Emma L. Johnston, Jordon W. Magico

Commercial Litigation Communiqué

Introduction and overview Agrium v Orbis Engineering Field Services, 2022 ABCA 266 (Agrium v Orbis), is a case involving statutory interpretation of section 7(6) of Alberta’s Arbitration Act, RSA 2000, c A-43 (the “Act”). Section 7 of the Act allows […]

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Municipalities impose community benefits charges

November 2, 2022 | Thomas Sanderson, Justin McLarty, Jesse White, Safa Bajwa

Real Estate Report

Municipalities impose community benefits charges In the summer and fall of 2022, several Ontario municipalities have passed by-laws imposing Community Benefits Charges (“CBCs”) on new developments to pay for development-related capital costs under section 37 of the Planning Act. More […]

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Ontario Government tables legislation to prohibit strike or lockout

November 1, 2022 | Gillian Tuck Kutarna, Nadya Tymochenko, Renata Antoniuk

Morning Recess Education Law Newsletter

On October 31, 2022, the Ontario government introduced Bill 28, Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022. If passed, this legislation would prohibit CUPE workers (approximately 55,000 Ontario education workers, including educational assistants, custodians, librarians, and early childhood educators) from striking […]

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True sale principles from Canadian case law

November 1, 2022 | P. Jason Kroft, Ahmad Adam, Simon Igelman

Structured Finance and Securitization Communiqué

In many structured finance transactions, the commercial intention among the parties is to effect a transaction resulting in a purchase and sale between a buyer (the party contributing funds) and a seller (the party contributing revenue streams from financial assets). Whether […]

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Privacy Commissioners call on Health Industry to phase out use of traditional fax and unencrypted email in shift to digital healthcare

October 31, 2022 | Kathryn M. Frelick, Amanda Cutinha

Health Communiqué

On September 21, 2022, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released a Joint Resolution of the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Privacy Commissioners and Ombudspersons with Responsibility for Privacy Oversight entitled Securing Public Trust in Digital Healthcare (the “Joint […]

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Tribunal rejects parent’s attempt to challenge school lesson on gender ideology

October 31, 2022 | Renata Antoniuk

Morning Recess Education Law Newsletter

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in N.B. v. Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, 2022 HRTO 1044 (CanLII) recently confirmed that including gender identity in lessons taught to grade one students is not discriminatory. To the contrary, existing legislative provisions serve to […]

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HRTO confirms it has concurrent jurisdiction with labour arbitrators

October 31, 2022 | Kayla Cockburn

Morning Recess Education Law Newsletter

This month, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario released a decision in Weilgosh v. London District Catholic School Board, 2022 HRTO 1194 confirming the approach of the Tribunal that it has concurrent jurisdiction with labour arbitrators over human rights claims by […]

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When will the incorporation of a new company be oppressive?

October 27, 2022 | Michael Kirk, KC, Ian Wilson

Commercial Litigation Communiqué

Introduction A recent decision of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, Wisser v CEM International Management Consultants Ltd,[1] involved the Court imposing personal liability against the directors of a corporation for damages for wrongful dismissal pursuant to the oppression remedy […]

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