Monday’s Mix
Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible.
This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Timely Disclosure 2. Avoid a Claim 3.The Access Revolution Blog: Dispatches from the frontlines 4. Michael Spratt 5. The Trauma-Informed Lawyer
Timely Disclosure
Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Bulletin
Continuation vehicles (CVs) have become a common investment management device in the private equity (PE) toolkit in recent years. That said, CVs can add additional complexity absent in typical PE transactions, and this requires thoughtful navigation. A dispute between a sovereign wealth fund and a U.S. PE fund arising from a proposed CV transaction brought before the Delaware courts in December 2025 highlights the friction that can sometimes arise between general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs) in connection with CV deals.[1] We review the dispute, its unproven allegations, and the spotlight they shine on process in CV deals. …
Avoid a Claim
Amendments to Rules of Civil Procedure (O. Reg. 2/26 and O. Reg. 3/26)
From the Court Services Division of the Ministry of the Attorney General. On January 6, 2026, two new regulations were filed to amend the Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194. First, Ontario Regulation 2/26 introduces restrictions on parties’ choice of court location and increases judicial authority to transfer proceedings to a new location. In summary, O. Reg. 2/26 updates Rule 13.1 in two key respects: …
The Access Revolution Blog: Dispatches from the frontlines
This Way for the Legal Wading Pool
If you’ve been adrift on the internet desperately trying not to drown in the flood of legal information, great news! You’ve found a raft! No, that’s not really funny. When you’re representing yourself, trying to get to the information you want does often feel like drowning. There’s so much info, mostly not what you need, so you wind up flailing about desperate to stay afloat while the currents try to pull you under. Or you get caught in whirlpools of misinformation. Or weighted down by too much case law. …
Michael Spratt
Why Ford and Downey’s Cash Bail Bill Won’t Make Ontario Safer
We need to talk about bail. Again. Because whenever a government needs a distraction, a villain and a fundraising hook, they dust off the same script. Cue the ominous music. Pretend bail is broken. Pretend the courts are pushovers. Pretend complexity can be fixed with slogans. It is political comfort food for people who should know better. Enter Premier Doug Ford and Attorney General Doug Downey with a new bail bill that will not fix bail, reduce crime, or make anyone safer. Instead, Ford and Downey are serving Ontarians a double-double of unconstitutionality. …
The Trauma-Informed Lawyer
Unbroken: Angela Sterritt on Survival, Storytelling, and Holding onto Hope
In this episode, Myrna sits down with Angela Sterritt, award-winning journalist and author of the bestselling memoir Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls. Angela shares her powerful personal story of hope, survival, her path into journalism, and the responsibility she carries when amplifying stories from Indigenous communities. Together, they explore the intersections of trauma, colonialism, and healing, as well as the role storytelling plays in truth, accountability, and justice. …
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