A New Incapacity Planning Tool: The Advance Directive
In 2011, the Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act (the “Act”) was amended to provide adults with the opportunity to plan for their ... Continued
Availability of Estate Planning Tools Confirmed by Court of Appeal
As referenced in our earlier article, Avoiding Wills Variation Claims: How Far is Too Far?, the Wills Variation Act (“WVA”) permits spouses or children of ... Continued
Teachers Get Schooled In Trademarks – Again
In a previous post, we reported on a Federal Court of Canada decision, upholding the decision of the Registrar of Trademarks to refuse registration of the mark TEACHERS ... Continued
Disciplinary Action and the Timeliness of Warnings
Most employers know that it is not easy to fire or discipline an employee for just cause, especially if the reasons are due to performance ... Continued
Act to End Mandatory Retirement for Federally Regulated Employers Receives Royal Assent
Bill C-13, Keeping Canada’s Economy and Jobs Growing Act, has now received Royal Assent by Parliament. This omnibus legislation implements amendments to various acts, including ... Continued
Mining Company Ordered by the Court to Stop Drilling
In the recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Wahgoshig First Nation v. Ontario, 2011 ONSC 7708, Solid Gold Resources Corp. (Solid Gold), ... Continued
B.C. Court Grants Injunction to Restrain Mineral Exploration Work
On December 2, 2011, the B.C. Supreme Court granted an interim injunction restraining Taseko Mines Limited (Taseko) from continuing exploratory work under two provincial permits, ... Continued
A Tale of Two Trademark Appeals
Court considered what constitutes “use” in two cases
CounterPath partners with Rogers Communications
Vancouver-based CounterPath Corporation has provided critical technology behind the launch of Rogers One Number service, which lets Canadians use their wireless numbers to enable single-number ... Continued
CW presents to capacity crowd at Buildex 2012
Samantha Ip, Oliver Hanson, Satinder Sidhu and Anna Sekunova from our Construction Group presented at this year’s Buildex Vancouver event on February 9, 2012. Their ... Continued
Vedder Transportation Group wins Environmental Leadership Award
Vedder Transportation Group, a commercial trucking company with service areas across North America, won the Green Project Award at the first annual Abbotsford Environmental Leadership ... Continued
Priority Between Lien Claimants and Receiver
Our Court of Appeal in Bank of Montreal v. Peri Formwork Systems Inc., 2012 BCCA 4 recently had its first opportunity to consider whether builders ... Continued