WhatchangedinCanadianlaw,March23,2026toMarch29,2026
101 changes took effect this week across 12 sectors. Every summary links the exact diff and the official source.
Transportation (12)
Coast Guard responsibility transferred to Minister of National Defence, with new security mandate added
Responsibility for coast guard services has been moved from the Minister responsible for oceans to the Minister of National Defence. The coast guard's mandate now explicitly includes security functions, such as securi…
Air travellers security charge refunds no longer blocked by unfiled Digital Services Tax returns
The list of tax filings that must be completed before a security charge refund can be released has been updated. Specifically, the Digital Services Tax Act has been removed from the list of statutes whose outstanding…
Major overhaul of Canada's Aeronautics Act: higher penalties, drone rules, new compliance tools and extended enforcement powers
Canada's Aeronautics Act has been significantly amended, affecting virtually every participant in the aviation sector. Maximum summary conviction fines for individuals rise from $5,000 to $150,000, and for corporation…
A section of the Budget Implementation Act, 2019 (No. 1) repealed before it came into force
One provision of the Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1 — specifically the amendment it contained to the Aeronautics Act at section 272 — has been repealed before it ever took effect. This means the change that se…
Canada Transportation Act gains ministerial interim-order power; Prairie extended interswitching rules removed
Two significant changes appear in the consolidated text. First, a new provision (s. 49.1) gives the federal Minister responsible for transportation the ability to issue interim orders that replicate, vary, or suspend…
Canada Customs Act updated: broader border facility obligations, new officer access powers for exports, and Indonesia free-trade rules added
Several practical changes have been made to the federal Customs Act. First, owners and operators of international bridges, tunnels, railways, airports, wharves and docks must now provide adequate facilities for any pu…
Canada creates a new high-speed rail authority with streamlined expropriation and land-control powers
A new federal law establishes the legal framework for a high-speed passenger rail network between Quebec City and Windsor, operated through VIA HFR - VIA TGF Inc., a subsidiary of VIA Rail Canada. The Act gives the Co…
Luxury tax on aircraft and vessels effectively suspended; registration and filing requirements wound down
The Select Luxury Items Tax Act has been amended to stop the luxury tax from applying to subject aircraft and subject vessels going forward. Any tax that would have become payable under Division 2 of Part 1 in respect…
Bridge To Strengthen Trade Act officially added to the International Bridges and Tunnels Act schedule
A previously pending amendment to the International Bridges and Tunnels Act has now come into force. The schedule of that Act — which lists the bridges and tunnels subject to federal oversight — has been updated to fo…
Aircraft Services Directorate moves from Transport Canada to National Defence
The Aircraft Services Directorate, a unit within the federal public administration previously under Transport Canada, has been transferred to the Department of National Defence. This is a machinery-of-government chang…
Gordie Howe International Bridge officially added to the federal list of regulated international crossings
The Gordie Howe International Bridge, connecting Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan, has been formally added to the schedule of international bridges and tunnels subject to federal oversight under the International…
B.C. ride-hail and taxi rules updated: accessibility payments, trip counting, and driver record-check certificates overhauled
Three rounds of amendments to British Columbia's Passenger Transportation Regulation change how accessibility is supported, how trips are counted for levy purposes, and how driver background checks work for passenger…
Financial Services & Insurance (24)
Canada enacts sweeping border security and immigration overhaul covering asylum rules, drug enforcement, and money laundering
A new federal Act introduces broad changes across several intersecting areas. On immigration, it tightens refugee claim eligibility rules, adjusts how asylum claims are processed and referred, expands information-shar…
Federal access-to-information exemptions updated: new laws added, one provision expanded
Schedule II of the Access to Information Act, which lists laws whose confidentiality provisions override the general right to access government records, has been updated in several ways. Three new statutes have been a…
Digital Services Tax Act removed from list of tax laws trustees must account for in bankruptcies
The Digital Services Tax Act has been repealed from the list of federal tax statutes that a bankruptcy trustee must account for before distributing dividends to creditors. Previously, trustees were required to hold ba…
Canada's federal borrowing ceiling raised to $2.541 trillion
The statutory cap on the total amount the federal government may have outstanding in borrowed money at any one time has been increased from $2,126,000,000,000 to $2,541,000,000,000. The ceiling covers borrowings by th…
Canada gets a new standalone statute governing the Canada Development Investment Corporation
A new federal Act formally continues the Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDEV) — previously incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act — as a statutory Crown corporation and agent of the federa…
CDIC deposit insurance extended to cover asset acquisitions by federal credit unions from provincial credit societies
The Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act has been amended to extend federal deposit insurance protection to deposits held by provincial cooperative credit societies when a federal credit union acquires their asset…
Consumer-Driven Banking Act repealed in full
The Consumer-Driven Banking Act has been repealed. The entire substantive text of the Act — including its provisions on consumer data sharing, the participating entity registry, the technical standards body, prohibiti…
Canada creates a new consumer-directed financial data-sharing framework
A new federal law establishes a formal system — called consumer-driven banking — that lets consumers (including businesses) instruct their bank or other accredited financial institutions to share their financial data…
Federal Digital Services Tax Act text removed from consolidated publication — law remains in force
The full operative text of the Digital Services Tax Act has been removed from this consolidated document, leaving only the title and enacting citation. This is a publishing change to the consolidated text, not a repea…
Digital Services Tax Act removed from list of laws EDC can share privileged client information to support
Export Development Canada (EDC) is no longer permitted to share privileged client information with the Minister of National Revenue for the purpose of administering or enforcing the Digital Services Tax Act. The permi…
Consumer-driven banking oversight removed from FCAC's mandate; Senior Deputy Commissioner role abolished
A set of amendments strips out all provisions in the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act that related to consumer-driven banking. The Senior Deputy Commissioner for Consumer-Driven Banking position has been repeal…
Federal financial administration rules updated: Digital Services Tax removed from set-off exemption, new trade deals added, Crown corporation deleted
Several targeted changes have been made to Canada's core financial administration legislation. The Digital Services Tax Act has been removed from the list of tax statutes whose amounts are exempt from the government's…
Mandatory annual audit of Government Annuities accounts by the Auditor General has been removed from the law
The provision requiring the Auditor General to conduct an annual audit of the accounts and financial transactions under the Government Annuities Act and the Government Annuities Improvement Act, and to report results…
Canada's Insurance Companies Act overhauled: longer sunset, higher ownership thresholds, stronger security oversight, and new e-document rules
The federal Insurance Companies Act has been updated in several significant ways. The sunset date by which insurance companies, fraternal benefit societies, and insurance holding companies must either wind up or recei…
OSFI's information-sharing committee gains FINTRAC Director; Superintendent gets broader powers to share and receive information
The Director of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has been added as a member of the financial institutions advisory committee, joining the Superintendent, the Bank of Canada Go…
Canada's anti-money-laundering law overhauled: higher fines, tougher compliance orders and new enrolment regime
The Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act has been significantly amended in two main waves. First, criminal fines for most compliance offences have been sharply increased — for example, gene…
Retail Payment Activities Act updated: tighter anti-money-laundering grounds for refusing or revoking PSP registration
The Act has been amended to sharpen the anti-money-laundering criteria that allow the Bank of Canada to refuse or revoke a payment service provider's (PSP) registration. The language now refers to being found guilty o…
Canada's sanctions law gains a new Part 2 requiring banks to report and remit profits earned on sanctioned foreign assets
The Special Economic Measures Act has been restructured and expanded. The original sanctions provisions are now grouped under Part 1, while a brand-new Part 2 creates specific obligations for federally regulated finan…
Canada's new Stablecoin Act creates a federal registration and oversight regime for stablecoin issuers
The Stablecoin Act establishes a mandatory federal framework for anyone who creates and makes a stablecoin available for purchase in Canada (with interprovincial or international reach). No one may issue a stablecoin…
Federal trust and loan companies get seven-year sunset extension, higher equity thresholds, and stronger security oversight rules
The sunset date allowing federal trust and loan companies to continue carrying on business has been pushed from June 30, 2026 to June 30, 2033, giving the industry a seven-year extension before re-authorization is req…
Mortgage administrators, brokers and lenders now trigger client identity verification at first transaction, matching real estate rules
The regulations now require mortgage administrators, mortgage brokers, and mortgage lenders to verify a client's identity the very first time that obligation arises — the same standard that already applied to real est…
Maximum fines for anti-money-laundering violations raised dramatically, with some violations reclassified as more serious
The maximum administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) for violations of Canada's anti-money-laundering and terrorist financing rules have been significantly increased. Minor violations now carry a maximum penalty of $4…
BC replaced the IIROC-named registration instrument with an updated version naming CIRO
The old BC Instrument 22-502, which named the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) as the body handling securities registration, has been repealed and replaced with a new version of the same i…
BC updates the list of derivatives that must be centrally cleared under National Instrument 94-101
British Columbia's securities regulator has replaced Appendix A of National Instrument 94-101, which sets out the specific derivatives contracts that must be cleared through a central counterparty. The revised list co…
Government Operations (13)
Federal tribunal support service expanded to cover territorial bodies and gains a new Environmental Protection Tribunal
The Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada Act has been amended to allow the Service to support bodies established under territorial legislation, not just federal tribunals. The Minister of Justice can now…
Broadcasting Act updated: individual privacy added as interpretation principle, official-language minority community wording revised
The Broadcasting Act has been amended in two ways. First, a new explicit requirement has been added that the Act must be interpreted consistently with the right to privacy of individuals — a principle not previously l…
A previously pending amendment in the 2018 Budget Implementation Act has been formally repealed before it ever took effect
One section of the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 1 that had never come into force has now been officially marked as repealed before coming into force, by a subsequent act. This means the change that section was…
Cooperatives can now be dissolved immediately if flagged as a terrorist-listed entity
The Canada Cooperatives Act now includes a new ground for administrative dissolution: the Director can dissolve a cooperative without notice if the Minister of Public Safety notifies them that the cooperative is a lis…
Immigration department gains new powers to share personal information with other government bodies
The Department of Citizenship and Immigration can now formally share personal information it holds — such as identity details, immigration status, and document records — both internally within the department and exter…
Corporations linked to terrorism can now be dissolved immediately without prior notice
The Canada Business Corporations Act now adds a fifth ground for the Director to dissolve a federal corporation: being notified by the Minister of Public Safety that the corporation is a "listed entity" under the Crim…
Canada Infrastructure Bank's capital ceiling raised from $35 billion to $45 billion
The maximum amount the federal government can pay to the Canada Infrastructure Bank from the Consolidated Revenue Fund has been increased from $35 billion to $45 billion in aggregate. This change expands the Bank's po…
Federal not-for-profit corporations can now be dissolved without notice if flagged as a listed terrorist entity
The Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act has been amended to allow the federal Director to dissolve a not-for-profit corporation immediately—without the usual advance notice to the corporation or its directors, and…
Canada overhauls immigration enforcement powers: officers can cancel visas, refuse or terminate applications, and Cabinet can act by order in the public interest
A wide-ranging set of amendments to Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act introduces several new enforcement tools. Officers now have explicit authority to terminate application processing, and to cancel, su…
Federal public service pension rules updated to add workforce-reduction early allowance and operational-service changes
The Public Service Superannuation Act has been amended in two main ways. First, a new time-limited annual allowance option is created for public servants who leave during an active workforce reduction initiative: Grou…
RCMP pension injury-award claims now handled by Veterans Affairs Minister; annual CPI adjustments added
Several changes have been made to how injury and disability award claims under Part II of the RCMP Superannuation Act are administered. The authority to decide those claims is now explicitly assigned to the Minister o…
Canada's Red Tape Reduction Act gains new regulatory sandbox powers for innovation and competitiveness
The Act has been restructured and significantly expanded. The existing one-for-one administrative burden rules are now grouped under Part 1, with minor wording updates but no substantive change to those obligations. A…
Canada adds four Iranian entities and five individuals to its Iran sanctions list
Canada has expanded its Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations by adding four Iranian companies and five individuals to the sanctions schedules. The four newly listed entities are Chekad Sanat Faraz Asia (also k…
Energy & Environment (18)
Review of enforcement orders now goes to the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada, not the Chief Review Officer
The amendment replaces all references to the "Chief Review Officer" in this Act with the "Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada." In practical terms, anyone who receives an enforcement order under this Act and w…
Building Canada Act registry must now cover a fifth project outcome, and Schedule 2 gains a new regulatory entry
Two practical changes appear in this amendment. First, the public project registry that the Minister must maintain now has to disclose how each national interest project is expected to meet a fifth category of outcome…
LNG export licences get a new 50-year validity cap, separate from other natural gas licences
The Canadian Energy Regulator Act now contains a dedicated provision for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export licences, capping their maximum validity at 50 years from a date set in the licence itself. Previously, the r…
CEPA enforcement review body replaced: 'Review Officers' become the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada
The amendment replaces the informal roster of Review Officers and the Chief Review Officer role with a formally constituted tribunal — the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada. The Tribunal takes over all funct…
Reviews of environmental penalty notices now go to the Environmental Protection Tribunal, not review officers
The body that handles challenges to administrative monetary penalty notices under federal environmental laws has changed. Previously, requests for review were directed to the Chief Review Officer and handled by review…
Compliance order reviews now go to the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada, not the Chief Review Officer
References to the Chief Review Officer throughout the compliance order review process in the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act have been replaced with the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada. Anyone who rec…
Review of enforcement orders under the International River Improvements Act now goes to the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada
The body that handles requests to review enforcement orders issued under this Act has changed. Previously, reviews were directed to the Chief Review Officer (a role now repealed); they are now handled by the Environme…
Review of migratory-bird enforcement orders now goes to a new federal tribunal, not the Chief Review Officer
The body that handles requests to review enforcement orders issued under this Act has changed. Previously, affected parties sent review requests to the Chief Review Officer; they now send them to the newly established…
Wildlife Act enforcement reviews now go to the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada, not the Chief Review Officer
The Canada Wildlife Act has been updated to replace all references to the 'Chief Review Officer' with the 'Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada' (EPTC) as the body that handles reviews of compliance orders issu…
New reporting and record-keeping obligations for holders of uranium, plutonium-239 and thorium now in force
Anyone in possession of uranium, plutonium-239, or thorium must now file annual inventory reports with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) detailing the items held, their masses, and their chemical and physi…
Canada's nuclear import/export control list updated to align with latest IAEA non-proliferation standards
The schedule listing controlled nuclear substances, equipment, and information under Canada's nuclear non-proliferation import and export rules has been substantially revised. The controlled-items lists are now aligne…
Nuclear penalty schedule updated: new safeguards reporting violations added, one item repealed
The schedule of violations subject to administrative monetary penalties under the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's rules has been revised. A previously listed reporting violation (Item 41, related to filing a full…
New Qikiqtait Marine Protected Area designated in Hudson Bay, Arctic Ocean
A new Marine Protected Area (MPA) has been formally established in a portion of Hudson Bay in the Arctic Ocean, covering the seabed, subsoil to five metres depth, the water column above, and sea ice. Most activities a…
New Sarvarjuaq Marine Protected Area designated in Baffin Bay and Nares Strait
A new Marine Protected Area (MPA) has been formally established in the Arctic Ocean, covering parts of Baffin Bay and Nares Strait, including the seabed, subsoil to five metres depth, the water column, and sea ice. Mo…
Deadline in clean energy regulation extended by three years to April 2029
A Treasury Board order has pushed back a deadline that previously fell on April 1, 2026, in two specific provisions (paragraphs (c) and (d)) of B.C. Reg. 185/2023 under the Clean Energy Act. The new deadline is April…
BC Utilities Commission directed to replace biomass energy program rates by April 1, 2026
The provincial government has amended the direction governing the Biomass Energy Program to require the BC Utilities Commission to issue final orders replacing the existing biomass energy rate with a new rate structur…
B.C. rewrites fee rules for renewable energy project permits, adding tiered costs based on project size
The Renewable Energy Projects Regulation has been amended to replace its entire fees-and-security section with a new structured framework. Permit application fees are now tiered: smaller projects (over 5 MW and under…
Federal protection now applies to Plains Minnow critical habitat in Canada
A new federal order formally activates the Species at Risk Act's prohibition on destroying critical habitat for the Plains Minnow, a threatened freshwater fish. The critical habitat is defined in the species' recovery…
Tax & Revenue (11)
Canada's Budget 2025 Implementation Act No. 1 is now law, touching tax, housing, banking, transport and more
The federal government has enacted a wide-ranging budget implementation statute that makes changes across dozens of areas of federal law. Key practical effects include: repealing the Digital Services Tax (with refunds…
Digital Services Tax Act removed from Canada Revenue Agency's list of administered tax laws
The Digital Services Tax Act has been repealed and its entry in the Canada Revenue Agency Act's list of federal tax legislation administered by the CRA has been replaced with a note marking it as repealed. This means…
Digital Services Tax Act removed from excise duty refund filing checklist
The Excise Act, 2001 has been amended to remove the Digital Services Tax Act from the list of federal statutes whose returns must be filed before a person can receive an excise duty overpayment refund or have an overp…
First Nations tax law gains a new Part 3 letting eligible First Nations impose tax on alcohol, fuel, cannabis, vaping and tobacco products
A new Part 3 has been added to the federal First Nations Goods and Services Tax Act, creating a framework that lets qualifying First Nations governing bodies (bands or bodies with equivalent legislative power) enact t…
Definition of 'First Nation law' expanded and Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation removed from Schedule I
Two changes have been made to the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act. First, the definition of 'First Nation law' now references additional subsections (39(1) and 40(1)) of the First Nations Goods and Services…
Global Minimum Tax Act updated to remove Digital Services Tax Act cross-references in transfer-pricing and filing rules
Two provisions in Canada's Global Minimum Tax Act have been revised to remove references to the Digital Services Tax Act. First, the joint-and-several liability formula for non-arm's-length property transfers no longe…
Tax Court jurisdiction updated: Digital Services Tax Act references removed, Global Minimum Tax Act section numbers adjusted
The Tax Court of Canada Act has been amended to remove the Digital Services Tax Act from the list of statutes over which the Tax Court has exclusive jurisdiction for appeals, question determinations, and extension-of-…
Underused Housing Tax effectively ended: no tax owed and no returns required from 2025 onward
Two new provisions have been added to the Underused Housing Tax Act that together shut down the tax going forward. First, no tax is payable under the Act for 2025 or any later calendar year. Second, owners of resident…
Digital Services Tax Regulations have been repealed
The Digital Services Tax Regulations, which set out prescribed interest rates, revenue thresholds, the tax rate, and the deduction amount under the Digital Services Tax Act, have been repealed in their entirety. All s…
New regulations set out exclusions, export rules, and transition relief for the federal luxury tax on aircraft, vessels, and vehicles
Canada has enacted formal regulations under the Select Luxury Items Tax Act covering four main areas. First, aircraft and vessels sold under written purchase agreements signed before 2022—or with qualifying pre-2022 d…
Victoria Regional Transit Commission sets new property tax rates for transit funding
The Victoria Regional Transit Commission has established property tax rates to fund regional transit for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2026. Residential, managed forest, recreational and farm properties (Classes…
Courts & Justice (7)
Police undercover officers can now be exempted from Criminal Code conspiracy and related offences during cannabis operations
The Cannabis Act has been amended to allow regulations to exempt designated police officers (and people acting under their direction) from Criminal Code provisions covering conspiracy, attempt, accessory after the fac…
Policing provisions for Naskapi Category IA-N land repealed from federal Act
Two sections of this federal Act that governed policing jurisdiction and policing-services agreements on Naskapi Category IA-N land have been repealed. Section 195, which extended the Naskapi village municipality's te…
Two more Ontario Court of Appeal judges added; judicial complement limits reshuffled across provinces
The Judges Act has been amended to increase the number of salaried Justices of Appeal for Ontario from 14 to 16. At the same time, the national cap on additional superior court judge salaries (excluding appeal courts)…
Sex offender registry expanded: more agencies can access data, new reporting duties added, disclosure rules broadened
The Sex Offender Information Registration Act has been updated to extend access to the registry beyond police services to include 'other law enforcement agencies,' including the Canada Border Services Agency, which no…
Police undercover exemptions expanded to cover Schedule V substances; related provisions confirmed retroactively
The amendment extends the 'holding out' exemptions for police officers and their civilian agents to cover substances in Schedule V, in addition to Schedules I through IV that were already covered. Previously, a police…
Court enforcement and process fees raised in Small Claims and BC Supreme Court civil proceedings
Several fees paid to sheriffs and other parties for serving documents and enforcing court orders have been updated in both the Small Claims Rules and the Supreme Court Civil Rules. In Small Claims, service fees rise t…
BC Civil Resolution Tribunal can now award up to $75,000 for intimate image complaints
A new regulation sets $75,000 as the maximum amount the Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) can award when deciding intimate image claims. This brings sections of the Intimate Images Protection Statutes Amendment Act, 202…
Consumer & Business (1)
Food & Agriculture (2)
Farm Credit Canada Act now requires periodic parliamentary review of the agency's operations
A new section has been added to the Farm Credit Canada Act requiring the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, in consultation with the Minister of Finance, to review the Act and Farm Credit Canada's operations on a…
BC's Spongy Moth Eradication Regulation gets an updated Schedule of regulated areas
The Schedule attached to the Spongy Moth Eradication Regulation has been repealed and replaced with a new version. The Schedule typically defines the geographic areas subject to spongy moth eradication controls — such…
Health Care (7)
Canada overhauls Human Pathogens and Toxins Act: new registry, tougher penalties, and stricter security rules for labs
The federal Human Pathogens and Toxins Act has been significantly restructured. The previous system of static numbered schedules listing regulated pathogens and toxins is replaced by a new Minister-maintained online r…
Veterans' pension basic rates locked in retroactively from 1985 to end of 2026, with new Schedule IV listing exact amounts
The amendment formally establishes the dollar amounts of the basic pension payable to disabled Canadian Forces members for every year from April 1, 1985 through December 31, 2026, consolidating them in a new Schedule…
New power added to define 'province' in Veterans Health Care Regulations, with retroactive reach
The Act now includes a new section giving the Governor in Council the authority to make regulations that define what "province" means for any provision of the Veterans Health Care Regulations. Importantly, those regul…
Veterans Well-being Regulations updated to clarify first-year proration of earnings loss benefit adjustments and repeal transitional CPI provisions
Two sets of changes were made to the Veterans Well-being Regulations. First, two subsections dealing with Consumer Price Index adjustment mechanics (subsections 21(1.1) and 21(1.2)) have been formally repealed, tidyin…
Human Pathogens and Toxins Regulations updated: security added to public-risk tests, licence renewal tied to new Act requirements, and toxin thresholds replaced by ministerial registry
Several practical changes have been made to the regulations governing facilities that handle human pathogens and toxins. The standard for assessing risk to the public now consistently reads 'health, safety or security…
Veterans health care regulations clarify which provinces count for accommodation charge calculations
Two additions clarify what "province" means when calculating maximum monthly accommodation and meal charges for veterans in long-term care. A new subsection explicitly limits the definition of "province" to the ten na…
B.C. health profession regulations updated: broader physio scope, expanded midwifery powers, and a terminology fix
Three health-profession regulations under the Health Professions and Occupations Act have been amended. Physiotherapists (regulated under the Health and Care Professionals Regulation) have had a system-specific restri…
Education & Child Care (2)
Canada's National School Food Program gets its own stand-alone law, locking in federal funding and reporting duties
A new federal Act formally establishes the National School Food Program in statute, setting out the government's long-term vision that all children and youth in Canada have access to nutritious food at school. The law…
Federal student aid blocked for private, for-profit foreign schools — with a phase-out window for current students
A new rule (s. 6.31) prohibits the federal government from providing Canada Student Financial Assistance to students enrolled at private, for-profit designated educational institutions located outside Canada. A delaye…
Construction & Real Estate (1)
Employment & Workplace (3)
B.C. brings new serious illness or injury leave provision into force for employees
British Columbia has proclaimed section 2 of the Employment Standards (Serious Illness or Injury Leave) Amendment Act, 2025 into force. This provision introduces or modifies a leave entitlement for employees dealing w…
Eight additional cancers added to B.C. firefighters' occupational disease list, service thresholds updated
B.C.'s Firefighters' Occupational Disease Regulation now lists eight additional cancers as presumptive occupational diseases for firefighters: primary site skin cancer, laryngeal cancer, mesothelioma, soft tissue sarc…
OHS Regulation expands firefighter health-and-safety rules to cover broader 'fire personnel' category
The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation's Part 31 provisions previously applied to 'firefighters.' The amendment introduces a new defined term, 'fire personnel,' covering workers (paid or volunteer) engaged in f…