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. Great LEXpectations 2. Family Health Law Blog 3. PierreRoy & Associés 4. The Court 5. Reconciliation Syllabus

Great LEXpectations
Looseleaf Updates – February 25

This release features updates to the case law and commentary in the following chapters: 8 (Statutory and Constitutional Procedural Requirements), 9 (Pre-Hearing Participatory Rights: Notice, Disclosure, Delay and Adjournments), 10 (The Hearing and Participatory Rights), 11 (Interest, Bias and Independence), 12 (Review of the Decision-Making Process), 13 (The Grant of Authority), 14 (Review of the Exercise of Authority: Administrative Adjudication), and 15 (Review of Non-Adjudicative Administrative Action). …

Family Health Law Blog
Ontario Updates Dementia Care in Long-Term Care: What’s Changing?

On February 24, 2026, Ontario announced new dementia-care investments in long-term care: the first 17 homes in the new Improving Dementia Care Program (IDCP), plus funding to expand Behavioural Specialized Units (BSUs) with up to 153 new BSU beds in five homes. Part of the announcement discusses the implementation of emotion-based models of care. …

PierreRoy & Associés
Comment les dettes fiscales peuvent mettre votre PME en danger

Pour une petite ou moyenne entreprise, les dettes fiscales ne sont pas juste une ligne à payer sur le bilan. Elles peuvent devenir un véritable risque pour la survie de l’entreprise si elles ne sont pas gérées rapidement et de manière proactive. Avec la hausse des coûts et des taux d’intérêt, même une PME apparemment saine peut se retrouver fragilisée par des obligations fiscales non réglées. …

The Court
Beyond Neutrality: Kanyinda, s. 15(1), and the Limits of Facial Equality

In Quebec (Attorney General) v Kanyinda, 2026 SCC 7 [Kanyinda], the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) considered whether the provincial subsidized childcare regime of Quebec violates the equality rights guaranteed under s. 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, The Constitution Act, 1982, Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11, [Charter]. Karakatsanis J., writing for the majority, held that the provisions of the Reduced Contribution Regulation (“RCR”) that excluded refugee claimants from eligibility to participate in the subsidized childcare program created adverse effects discrimination based on sex. Although facially neutral, the legislative scheme disproportionately impacted and burdened female refugee claimants, who are more likely to bear the primary burden of childcare responsibilities. …

Reconciliation Syllabus
Learning Land and Relationship

For some time, I have been wanting to bring experiential learning related to land to a 3^rd year course I teach in an undergraduate Legal Studies program at Ontario Tech University: LGLS 3310U – Indigenous Peoples, Law and the State in Canada . This is the story of how this happened. Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland discuss “stories as tools for thinking”, for both tellers and listeners, in their work on engagement with Indigenous legal traditions.[1] Although my topic is much smaller, telling this story gives me space to think – about the land, about teaching and relationships, and about myself as a teacher — if you feel you can take it up as a thinking tool, too, please do. …

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