10/31/2024 5:00:01 PM New Authority: Property Tax Incentive Bylaws for Residential Property By Greg Plester Rebecca Kos Stephen Raitz Introduction Municipalities now have the authority to offer residential tax incentives in Alberta, similar to the incentives introduced...
8/30/2022 10:22:02 PM Rule 3.45 is not a Limitation Period By Nabeel Peermohamed By Phoenix Howe, Student In Kapeluck v Two Girls And A Hammer Inc., 2022 ABQB 467, the Applicant ICF Plus Inc. (“ICF”) successfully...
8/22/2022 9:53:06 PM B.C. Court Finds no Liability for Company Hired to Clear Municipal Sidewalks By Duncan Taylor By Duncan Taylor, Lawyer A recent decision by the Supreme Court of British Columbia has found that a pedestrian who slips and falls on a...
8/17/2022 10:16:44 PM Are You Working When Driving Home? Court Says ‘Yes’ By Brownlee Law By Jesse Stanich, Student-At-Law In the B.C. Court of Appeal case Dhillon v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal, 2022 BCCA 251, the...
8/16/2022 8:46:33 PM Get with the Times: Alberta Court of Appeal Greenlights Videoconferencing By Kara Shaw By Kara Shaw, Student-At-Law In the recent case of Mostafa Altalibi Professional Corporation v Lorne S. Kamelchuk Professional...
7/11/2022 6:00:33 PM Above and Beyond the Code – Adherence to Building Codes does not Automatically Absolve an Occupier of Liability By Brownlee Law By Phoenix Howe, Student In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision of Westerveld v Cineplex Entertainment Corp, 2022...
6/17/2022 3:22:05 PM No One is Perfect: Standard of Care Required of an Occupier is Reasonableness not Perfection By Brownlee Law By Phoenix Howe, Student In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision of Westerveld v Cineplex Entertainment Corp, 2022...
6/13/2022 10:23:20 PM Reasonable Safety is Sufficient to Absolve an Occupier of Liability Under the OLA By Brownlee Law By Phoenix Howe, Student In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision of Westerveld v Cineplex Entertainment Corp, 2022...
5/19/2022 10:45:44 PM Collateral Attacks Fail Against Municipalities By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Litigation Team In Ekman v Brooks (City), the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench reinforced that it will not tolerate...
5/10/2022 10:11:04 PM Damaged Curbs Do Not Attract Automatic Liability By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Litigation Team By utilizing key sections within the Municipal Government Act (MGA), the Municipality of Crowsnest...
5/4/2022 9:51:21 PM Sunken Sprinkler Head Can’t Trip Up Municipal Government Act Protections By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Litigation Team In 2019 and 2020, our municipal litigation team successfully defended the City of Lethbridge against...
4/28/2022 6:23:35 PM Inspections and Maintenance Key to a Strong Defence By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Insurance Defence Team Last week we discussed how the Municipal Government Act provides municipalities with defences...