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National - An outdated patchwork

1 week ago | nationalmagazine.ca | Holly Lake

Law In-depth A new CBA report is calling for a reimagined overhaul of Canada’s immigration system The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is showing its age and needs an overhaul. That’s the overarching message in a new report drafted by the Canadian Bar Association’s immigration law section.
National - A necessary balance

3 weeks ago | nationalmagazine.ca | Gail Cohen

Law Hot topics New ‘elbows up’ rules under the Canada Investment Act must weigh national and economic security concerns with ensuring attractiveness to foreign investment Finding a balance between national security and continuing to attract foreign investment will be key for the new Liberal government, particularly in the middle of a trade fight. That was the word from panellists at the Canadian Bar Association’s recent competition law conference.
National - Water war

1 month ago | nationalmagazine.ca | Kevin Dougherty

Law Hot topics Amid Trump’s talk of large faucets and abandoning border agreements, could Canadian water exports end up on the CUSMA negotiating table? During trilateral free trade pact renegotiations in 2018, the United States and Canada agreed to take bulk export of water off the table. With the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) up for review in 2026, could the Americans put water exports from Canada back on the agenda?
National - Lawyers across the country pitch in to kick off Canada’s first pro women’s soccer league

1 month ago | nationalmagazine.ca | Gail Cohen

Legal Market Law Firms A love of the beautiful game and small-world connections have brought legal advisers and Northern Super League teams together When Stephanie Spruston was deciding which law school to attend, it was soccer that tilted her choice towards Queen’s University, where she’d played as an undergrad. “I stayed at Queens and went to law school at Queens so that I could use my last couple years of eligibility to play soccer,” she says.
National - Bracing for impacts

1 month ago | nationalmagazine.ca | Caroline James

Law Hot topics Canadian lawyers must adjust early and often to the uncertainty brought on by the trade war with the United States Canadian lawyers and their clients are bracing for the impact of American and reciprocal Canadian tariffs that some say could plunge this country into a recession.
National - Fixing family law

2 months ago | nationalmagazine.ca | Kevin Dougherty

Law Hot topics Canada’s unified family court ambitions have fallen short. Now Quebec is proposing taking over family matters from Superior Court and a new unified family tribunal to increase access to justice The family law system in Canada has been described as “judicial ping pong,” with cases bouncing from provincial courts to superior courts and back again in a costly, drawn-out process that delays justice and leaves families in limbo.
National - A battle from Bangladesh to the bar

2 months ago | nationalmagazine.ca | Gail Cohen

People Profile As a tired, hungry, unhoused refugee claimant in Vancouver, Sam Bhattacharjee vowed never to feel helpless again and saw the law as his path to stability and self-sufficiency Around New Year’s Day in 2016, a tired, hungry, unhoused refugee claimant sat on the seawall in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. He was floating from one odd job to another but, at that moment, vowed to himself that he would be a lawyer.
National - Erased from public life

Mar 8, 2025 | nationalmagazine.ca | Holly Lake

Law In-depth To mark International Women’s Day, we profile the push to recognize their treatment in Afghanistan as gender apartheid and examine Canada’s role in holding the Taliban to account Before the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, the country had a constitution, a legal system with protections in place for women and opportunities for their participation in every aspect of public life.
National - What is Canada's legal recourse in the throes of a trade war?

Mar 4, 2025 | nationalmagazine.ca

Canada could file challenges with the World Trade Organization, under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, and in domestic U.S. courts, but potential outcomes are mixed
National - Former Canadian spies rattled by what they see south of the border

Feb 19, 2025 | nationalmagazine.ca | Stephen Maher

Law Hot topics Observers say Canada has little legal recourse if U.S. under Trump doesn’t abide by intelligence-sharing agreements, which depend on trust Canada’s spies have to be watching the news from south of the border with growing alarm, say former intelligence officials. The government of Donald Trump is taking dramatic action that looks threatening to Canadian security: Tulsi Gabbard was recently sworn in as director of national intelligence.