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Submission | July 11, 2025

Bill 30, Working for Workers Seven Act, 2025

The OBA provides comments and recommendations on Bill 30, the Working for Workers Seven Act, 2025, regarding changes to the Ontario Immigration Act, and the Employment Standards Act.

Advocacy | July 07, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of June 30

New Regional Senior Justice Appointed to the OCJ: Justice Anthony Frederick Leitch has been appointed regional senior justice for the Central West Region of the Ontario Court of Justice (OCJ), effective September 1. He had been the acting senior judge in the region since 2023.

Advocacy | June 11, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of June 9

Article | June 10, 2025

“To Enforce or Not to Enforce?”: Recent Court of Appeal Decisions About Termination Clauses

This article summarizes recent Ontario Court of Appeal decisions about the enforceability of contractual termination clauses, including Bertsch and De Castro.

Legislative Update | June 06, 2025

Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of June 2

Ford Government Passes Mining Legislation: Bill 5, or the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, passed third reading this week and has been granted royal assent by the lieutenant governor. The legislation will create so-called special economic zones where laws, ranging from municipal approvals to environmental rules or even labour law, won’t apply. At Queen’s Park on Wednesday, cries of protest rang out from the galleries inside the legislature as MPPs voted. Indigenous leaders have vowed to keep fighting against the legislation.