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. Legal Feeds 2. Lash Condo Law 3. Great LEXpectations 4. Family Health Law Blog 5. ABlawg.ca
Legal Feeds
Canadian Legal Summit: Big ideas in the profession for 2026
The pace of AI adoption has given Canadian law firms plenty to discuss, but few definitive answers. How are other practices integrating the technology? What are corporate clients beginning to expect? And how are firms balancing the efficiencies on offer with the need to develop the next generation of lawyers? Hearing how peers are approaching these issues, including what has and hasn’t worked, was a compelling reason to gather. These concerns featured prominently at the Canadian Legal Summit 2026, hosted by Canadian Lawyer on October 14 at The Carlu in Toronto. Bringing together law firm leaders, general counsel, legal professionals and technology providers, the event offered an opportunity to hear how different parts of the profession are responding to those pressures, with perspectives from both sides of the lawyer-client relationship. …
Lash Condo Law
Owner Requisitions Are Changing: What Condo Managers Need to Know
If you are a condominium manager, an owner requisitioning a meeting is probably not the email you are hoping to find in your inbox. And starting December 31, 2026, the requirements for owner-requisitioned meetings under the Condominium Act, 1998 (the Act) and its regulations are changing. There is another important date to put in your calendar: July 1, 2027, when the Condominium Authority Tribunal (CAT) will gain jurisdiction over many disputes involving the requisition process So, what do managers actually need to know? …
Great LEXpectations
Manitoba Government Introduces Legislation to Strengthen Manitoba Hydro and Improve Financial Accountability
The Manitoba government introduced the Budget Implementation and Tax Statutes Amendment Act (BITSA 2) today, with measures that would help keep Manitoba Hydro rates affordable and improve transparency and accountability in the province’s financial reporting, Finance Minister Adrien Sala announced today. “Our government is focused on making life more affordable for Manitobans, and that includes keeping hydro rates as low as possible for families,” said Sala. “Large cryptocurrency operations and AI data centres use significant amounts of electricity, and they should contribute fairly to the system we all rely on.” The legislation would ensure revenue from a new levy on cryptocurrency operations and large AI data centres is returned to Manitoba Hydro residential customers. The new measure would be expected to save all residential ratepayers roughly $50 per year, and bills will be lowered monthly beginning early in the new year. …
Family Health Law Blog
Surrogate Refuses Abortion: What Canadian Surrogacy Law Says
A recent surrogacy case in the United States is tragic on just about every level. It is also a case that intended parents, surrogates and the professionals who work with them can learn from.According to reporting on the case, a surrogate was carrying a child for intended parents when, at around 20 weeks, the baby was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital heart defect. The intended parents wanted the pregnancy terminated. The surrogate did not. …
ABlawg.ca
2026 Referendum: UCP Grievance Politics and A Binding Vote Against Separation
Elections Alberta sets out the ten questions on the 2026 referendum here. The UCP government’s description of the referendum questions is here, and this description labels the questions into three groups: (1) four ‘constitutional questions’; (2) five ‘immigration questions’; and (3) one ‘separation question’. These questions have been the subject of an immense amount of media commentary. CBC News provides a brief overview of each question here and has a dedicated webpage for all its referendum coverage here. Much of the commentary seeks to understand the policy implications of the referendum vote (see e.g., Explaining about all 10 questions on the referendum). One implication is certain: a majority of votes for Option 1 (Alberta should remain a province of Canada) on the ‘separation question’ is binding on this UCP government (and not just while Danielle Smith remains premier, as she suggested in an interview with CBC News here), and should legally preclude any further scratching of the separation itch within the UCP party and the government caucus until after the next general election. …
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