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Canada’s 2022 budget contains some significant tax changes that will affect Canadian businesses. The carbon capture Investment Tax Credit first introduced in 2021 has been reintroduced; banks and insurers will see their taxes increase; and the General Anti-avoidance Rule (GAAR) will be revisited, with legislative proposals to be tabled by the end of the year.
Lavery Lawyers announced that two recently sworn-in lawyers are joining the firm following the completion of their articles with the firm.
Two years ago I commented on a murder conviction in New Zealand that had been achieved by means of a Mr. Big operation (Mr. Big secures conviction in New Zealand). The jury had found David Lyttle guilty of murdering Brett Hall for whom Lyttle had been building a house on Hall’s rural property north of Wellington. There was no body and negligible confirmatory evidence. Furthermore, many of the statements made to “Scott” (Mr. Big) were either provably false or prima facie implausible. The judge had instructed the jury that they could not convict Lyttle based solely on the confession. Lyttl...
B.C.’s top court has upheld a decision by the provincial government to deny a man’s attempts to build a small hydroelectric generator on a creek important to the spiritual practices of a First Nation, despite his arguments that the move denied his constitutional rights to a religiously neutral state.
Ontario courts can make child-support orders under the province’s Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act (ISO Act) even if such measures exist in other jurisdictions, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in Ontario (Family Responsibility Office, Director) v. Bougrine 2022 ONCA 161, released on Feb. 24.