Oct 31, 2024 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...
Aug 30, 2022 Rule 3.45 is not a Limitation Period By Nabeel Peermohamed Phoenix Howe By Phoenix Howe, Student In Kapeluck v Two Girls And A Hammer Inc., 2022 ABQB 467, the Applicant ICF Plus Inc. (“ICF”) successfully...
Aug 22, 2022 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...
Aug 17, 2022 Are You Working When Driving Home? Court Says ‘Yes’ By Jesse Stanich By Jesse Stanich, Student-At-Law In the B.C. Court of Appeal case Dhillon v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal, 2022 BCCA 251, the...
Aug 16, 2022 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...
Jul 11, 2022 Above and Beyond the Code – Adherence to Building Codes does not Automatically Absolve an Occupier of Liability By Phoenix Howe By Phoenix Howe, Student In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision of Westerveld v Cineplex Entertainment Corp, 2022...
Jun 17, 2022 No One is Perfect: Standard of Care Required of an Occupier is Reasonableness not Perfection By Phoenix Howe By Phoenix Howe, Student In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision of Westerveld v Cineplex Entertainment Corp, 2022...
Jun 13, 2022 Reasonable Safety is Sufficient to Absolve an Occupier of Liability Under the OLA By Phoenix Howe By Phoenix Howe, Student In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision of Westerveld v Cineplex Entertainment Corp, 2022...
May 19, 2022 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...
May 10, 2022 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...
May 04, 2022 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...
Apr 28, 2022 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...