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Administrative law 2026 ONCA 321

Dorceus v. Ontario

Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed a broad challenge by healthcare workers to COVID-19 vaccination policies, striking the claim as an abuse of process and for no reasonable cause of action.

  • Abuse of process
  • Motion to strike
  • Judicial notice
  • Charter applicability
  • Labour arbitration jurisdiction
  • Statutory exhaustion (hospital privileges)
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Tort 2026 ONCA 270

Hartman v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Court of Appeal struck down Daniel Hartman’s negligence and misfeasance claims over Canada’s approval and promotion of the COVID-19 vaccine and dismissed the appeal.

  • Duty of care
  • Misfeasance in public office
  • Motion to strike
  • Leave to amend
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Vaccine regulation
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Contract law 2026 BCCA 143

Northern Health Authority v. du Plessis

The Court dismissed both the appeal and cross‑appeal because the central questions identified by the parties were predominantly mixed questions of fact and law arising from the arbitrator's factual findings and application of legal tests; the arbitrator reasonably concluded the PHO Order did not apply to the respondent given his unique factual arrangement and did not err in law in his interpretation; the cross‑appellant failed to identify an extricable question of law arising from the remedy award.

  • Frustration of contract
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Termination without cause
  • Reasonable notice
  • Repudiation
  • Damages
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Administrative law 2026 FC 268

Matsqui-Abbotsford Impact Society v. Canada (Attorney General)

Federal Court dismissed a judicial review challenging BC’s second CDSA exemption amendment that curtailed decriminalization in public spaces, finding no Charter breach, unreasonableness, or unfairness.

  • S.56(1) cdsa exemptions
  • Decriminalization of controlled substances
  • Charter s.7 life liberty security
  • Procedural fairness
  • Admissibility of extrinsic evidence
  • Judicial-review
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Constitutional law 2026 SCC 5

Taylor v. Newfoundland and Labrador

The Supreme Court held Newfoundland and Labrador’s COVID-19 travel restrictions limited Charter mobility rights, but upheld them as justified under s. 1.

  • Mobility rights
  • Section 6 charter interpretation
  • Section 1 oakes justification
  • Bilingual interpretation of charter
  • State of emergency/public health orders
  • Mobility-rights
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Administrative law 2026 NSSC 21

Citizens Alliance of Nova Scotia v. Nova Scotia (Health and Wellness)

The Impugned Order had been rescinded and no tangible live controversy remained; therefore the applicants' claims were moot and the Court declined to exercise its residual discretion because the adversarial context, considerations of judicial economy, and respect for the Court's proper adjudicative role weighed against hearing an academic and broad inquiry.

  • Mootness
  • Residual discretion
  • Public health orders
  • Ultra vires
  • Immunity of public officials
  • Declaratory relief
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Labour law 2026 BCCA 3

Purolator Canada Inc. v. Canada Council of Teamsters

The Court of Appeal allowed Purolator’s appeal, holding the arbitrator’s award unreasonable because it applied a correctness-like approach to the vaccine-mandate evidence.

  • Judicial review
  • Reasonableness standard
  • Vaccine mandate
  • Precautionary principle
  • Arbitral awards
  • Workplace safety
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Constitutional law 2025 ONCA 908

Cycle Toronto v. Ontario (Attorney General)

The Court of Appeal for Ontario granted several motions to intervene in a Charter appeal about bicycle lanes, limiting each intervener to specific issues and set page and oral argument limits.

  • Section 7 charter
  • Positive vs negative rights
  • Intervention as friend of the court
  • Principles of fundamental justice
  • Gross disproportionality
  • Best interests of the child (uncrc)
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Constitutional law 2025 BCCA 460

Weisenburger v. College of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia

Appeal from an order striking pleadings and dismissing a Charter action arising from COVID-19 regulatory notices; most issues were moot, and the s. 2(b) claim was dismissed.

  • Mootness
  • Judicial review vs civil action
  • Striking pleadings under rule 9-5(1)
  • Charter damages
  • Freedom of expression s.2(b)
  • Section 7 liberty and security
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Administrative law 2025 FC 1703

Animal Justice Canada v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court upheld three Health of Animals Act orders creating an import ban on commercial dogs from high-risk rabies countries and dismissed the judicial review.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonableness review
  • Secondary control zone
  • Import ban
  • Standing
  • Evidence admissibility
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