On 28 March 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) will hear Resolute FP Canada Inc, et al v Ontario (Attorney General), 37985, an appeal of a lengthy 270-paragraph decision from the Court of Appeal of Ontario (“ONCA”) of Weyerhaeuser Company Limited v Ontario (Attorney General), 2017 ONCA 1007 [Weyerhaeuser]. At first glance, Weyerhaeuser appears […]
In Cowper-Smith v Morgan, 2017 SCC 61 [Cowper-Smith], the Supreme Court of Canada (“the Court”) brings back painful memories of first-year Contracts and attempts to clarify the complex equitable doctrine of propriety estoppel despite several differing interpretations. Proprietary Estoppel Estoppel is an equitable doctrine which arises when one party acts on the reliance of the promise […]
Launched in 2008, Airbnb began as a simple platform with a few hundred users that offered alternative short-term rentals to travellers. Today, Airbnb has an estimated value of $31 billion dollars, more than 150 million users, and is utilized in nearly 200 countries with millions of listings. Airbnb has become the leading single source of […]
In Nelson (City) v Mowatt, 2017 SCC 8 [Mowatt], the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) recently found that the British Columbia Court of Appeal (“BCCA”) erred when it interfered with the finding of fact related to adverse possession in 2016 BCCA 113, setting aside two decisions of Kelleher J., 2014 BCSC 988 and 2014 BCSC 2219. The SCC […]
Last year, TheCourt.ca conducted an in-depth review and analysis of the CIBC v Computershare, 2015 ONSC 846, mortgage fraud case. The original owners of a home had fraudulently discharged their mortgage unbeknownst to their lender, Computershare, who continued to receive regular mortgage payments. Subsequently, the owners sought another mortgage from CIBC. As title was clear, […]
Controversy surrounding new provincial legislation in British Columbia to curb foreign investment in the housing market and talks of similar measures for Ontario have kept all eyes on the red-hot housing markets across Canada. Furthermore, new federal mandates will take effect starting October 17, 2016 for the purchasing of homes, which will likely cause further […]
This guest post was contributed by James Steele. James Steele practices insurance, municipal, and commercial litigation with Robertson Stromberg LLP in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In Heritage Capital Corp. v. Equitable Trust, 2016 SCC 19 the Supreme Court offered two significant lessons to purchasers of Canadian heritage properties: Absent express statutory language, positive covenants in favour of developers will not run with the […]