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An overview of the AODA for employers

By Courtney March

The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (“AODA”) mandates organizations to develop and implement accessibility standards in…

Navigating Canada’s Immigration System During COVID-19

By Warren L. Creates

Canadian Immigration Summit Conference Board of Canada Research has determined that Canada has had challenges growing its GDP through productivity…

NEO Exchange Launches SPAC-Lite Pilot Program

By Conor J. Cronin

On April 16, 2021 the NEO Exchange announced a new 12-month pilot program for a go-public vehicle intended for early stage growth companies looking for a…

Canada Announces New Pathway to Permanent Resident Status for Essential Workers

By Warren L. Creates

In an effort to fast-track Canada’s post-COVID 19 economic recovery, on 14 April 2021, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced…

Ritchie v Castlepoint Greybrook Sterling Inc: Exculpatory Clauses in Pre-Construction Agreements of Purchase…

By Philippe Guiton & Selena Saikaley

If you take a drive around Ottawa, you’ll see one development project going up after another. Whether it’s a new subdivision in Kanata, or a new…

Firm Hires Back all Four Articling Students

Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall is pleased to announce that all four of our Articling Students have been hired back as full-time Associates with…

Federal Court of Appeal: A Corporation Must be Represented by Counsel in Tax Appeals

By Alanna T. Mar

After a series of conflicting decisions from the Tax Court of Canada on the issue of non-lawyers representing corporate taxpayers in General Procedure…

Recent Update to Ontario’s Standard Form Lease for Residential Tenancies

By Selena Saikaley

Since April 30, 2018, landlords and tenants entering into residential tenancies must use Ontario’s standard Residential Tenancy Agreement (“Standard…

Celebrating the Past, Visualizing the Future

By Anthony P. McGlynn

Perley-Robertson, Panet, Hill & McDougall LLP/s.r.l. opened its doors and commenced providing legal services to its clients officially on January 1st,…

Diagnostics update: Subject matter eligibility in Canada

By Wendy Lamson

Helping you streamline allowance Personalised medicine shows tremendous promise in revolutionizing the way we diagnose and treat disease.  However, in…

Supreme Court of Canada to Review Settlement Agreements in Family Law

By Alison Boyce

Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada granted the application for leave to appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in Sylvia H.C.C.…

Gotta have (good) faith: The Supreme Court clarifies the duty of good faith in contracts

By Bryce Dillon

Pursuant to recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada there are two separate but related aspects of the duty of good faith, both of which arise in…