OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal Indigenous child welfare act is constitutional, affirming that First Nations, Métis and Inuit have sole authority over the protection of...

Can a parent’s expenses to help their child’s career ever be tax deductible? In this case, the answer was yes and the CRA was wrong. Read on.

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<p>Canadian courts are establishing new guidelines for artificial intelligence use in legal proceedings following several incidents of AI-generated fake case law citations, including a prominent case ...

A B.C. court found that the man was in a seven-year relationship with a woman and must pay child support.

Ottawa has filed to appeal a Federal Court decision that found its invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests was unjustified. The government is asking the Feder...

Colby Cosh examines the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision to overturn the acquittal of Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King on three intimidation charges stemming from the 2022 protests in Ottawa. The original trial judge, Justice Charles Hackland, had declined to convict King, finding that protesters were primarily seeking to pressure and inconvenience Ottawa residents and the government rather than intimidate them. Hackland also expressed concern that a broad interpretation of the Criminal Code could interfere with Charter protections for lawful political protest. The Court of Appeal took a substantially different approach. It held that the Criminal Code expressly identifies blocking or obstructing a highway as conduct that can constitute intimidation when undertaken wrongfully and without lawful authority. The court rejected the idea that additional threats or violence were required and emphasized that mass obstruction of public highways cannot be treated as peaceful protest simply because it occurs in a political context. It characterized the trial judge’s interpretation as effectively removing highway blockades from the statutory provision and as an impermissible expansion of judicial interpretation. Cosh argues that the decision reinforces the principle that protesters are not exempt from ordinary criminal law and that Charter rights do not provide unlimited protection for disruptive conduct. At the same time, he notes the apparent irony for some convoy supporters: they may welcome the ruling’s defence of the rule of law while questioning why courts and police have not applied similar standards consistently to other protests. The article also cites criminal defence lawyer Jody Berkes, who argues that inconsistent enforcement can encourage increasingly disruptive protest tactics.

A federal court has paved the way for Highway 413 to be paved without the stumbling block of a major environmental assessment.

The appeal from the prime minister and Justice Minister Arif Virani argues the ruling vastly exceeds the court's jurisdiction.

The decision comes as a number of serious criminal cases in Toronto have collapsed due to delay caused by the lack of judges in Superior Court.

Canada’s top court has agreed with the Ontario government that Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters to cabinet are exempt from freedom-of-information laws.

Court finds law as written goes beyond the constitution's role for the federal government

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday against federal legislation on the environmental effects of major developments, with five out of seven judges finding most of it unconstitutional because it se...

A Sask. man who lost $240,000 in a cryptocurrency fraud is unlikely to get his money back anytime soon, a judge ruled.