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- Delays In Construction Lien Disputes Can Lead to Losing Security
- Employment Law Breakfast Seminar – Navigating Disability Accommodation in the Workplace
- Estate Planning for Special Needs Dependents: Ensuring a Secure Future
- Carbert Waite sponsored The Hangar Flight Museum’s National Aviation Day Weekend
- Kathleen O’Brien Comments on Whether Employers Should Compensate for the Use of Personal Cellphones for Work in the Globe and Mail
- Kathleen O’Brien Comments on Whether Employers Can Elect to Provide Lieu Time Instead of Overtime Pay in the Globe and Mail
- Roxanne Davis in Canadian HR Reporter- The Importance of Compassion: Alberta Worker Wrongfully Dismissed While on Medical Leave
- Roxanne Davis in Canadian HR Reporter – Finding the Right Employees Legally
- Is It Time To Update My Will?
- Tort Damages Reduced to Offset Future Government Funding?
- Wrongful Dismissal Action Results in Employee Liability of Over $500,000
- Secret Recordings Upheld as Just Cause for Dismissal
- Joseph Oppenheim in the Canadian HR Reporter – Potential Commissions in Wrongful Dismissal
- Kate Perala for ABlawg – Private Healthcare and the Law
- Joseph Oppenheim in the Canadian HR Reporter – Off-Duty Sexual Assault Just Cause for Dismissal
- Joseph Oppenheim in the Canadian HR Reporter – Dishonesty in Workplace Investigation
- Update to Medical Assistance in Dying Laws in Canada
- Car Accidents and The Legal Process
- Sexual Harassment and Constructive Dismissal
- CERB Benefits, Form of Termination Notices, and Duty to Mitigate
- Roxanne Davis in the Canadian HR Reporter
- The Challenges of Workplace Investigations Into Employee Misconduct
- Claiming Constructive Dismissal for Reduced Pay is Time-Sensitive
- Termination Clauses: Simplicity still has challenges.
- Employee Dismissal During Medical Leave
- Spring Cleaning for Employment Contracts
- Ready to Receive your Salary in Crypto? Some Things to Consider.
- Assault in the Metaverse – Are Our Laws up to the Test?
- SEC v Ripple: An Important Win for Ripple
- Appropriation of Personality in the Metaverse: Can Your Avatar Be a Clone of Your Favourite Celebrity?
- Caught in a Cryptocurrency Rug Pull? Your Legal Options
- Cryptocurrency: Programming Code vs. the Common Law
- 2021 Employment Law Year in Review
- Employment Law Webinar – The Return to Work
- How Can Condominium Corporations Collect and Pursue Delinquent Unit Owners for Their Legal Fees?
- Vaccination Policies in the Workplace: To Mandate or to Incentivize?
- Hiding your Dirty Laundry: Is Information on the Court Record Always Available to the Public?
- Termination Clauses for Provincial or Federally Regulated Employees
- Carbert Waite June 7, 2021 Employment Law Webinar
- Melissa Rico Comments on Pay Equity for a University Professor in the Globe and Mail
- Simple Termination Clause Upheld in Problematic Decision
- Construction Progress Billings and Deadlines to Sue
- Can Employment Termination Meetings be Done Remotely?
- Changes to Workers’ Compensation Act and Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Alberta Government Announces 3-hour Paid Leave for COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Amendments to Medical Assistance in Dying Laws in Canada
- A New Way Employers Can Deal With Online Harassment
- What is the Cost of a Probate Lawyer?
- Carbert Waite January 28, 2021 Employment Law Webinar
- Employment Agreements and Termination Clauses: The Impact of Waksdale v Swegon North America Inc.
- Frustration, Force Majeure and Contracts During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Can Employers Require COVID-19 Vaccinations?
- Alberta’s Mental Health Amendment Act (Bill 17)
- With Prejudice” vs. “Without Prejudice”
- Anticipated Changes to the Alberta Construction Industry through Prompt Payment Legislation
- What Is Probate and Do I Need a Probate Lawyer?
- Limitations to Vexatious Litigant Orders
- Employee Incentive Programs and Without Cause Terminations
- Changes to Alberta’s Employment Standards Code under Bill 32
- Bill 30 – Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2020
- Challenges Faced by Long-Term Care Facilities During COVID-19
- Estate Planning Documents: 10 Reasons to Revisit
- Who Pays For Condominium Unit Damage?
- Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy Calculator
- April 6 2020 Updates to the Employment Standards Code
- COVID-19: Navigating Working From Home for Employers and Employees
- COVID-19 in the Workplace: Keep Calm and Carry On!
- Statutory Caps on Public Sector Employee Severance
- Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Updates – January 2020
- Canada vs. US Employment Law
- Are you Ready for Your Holiday Party?
- When Do Incentive Payments Apply After Termination?
- Builders’ Liens – Not Always the Best Remedy
- Review of Recent Changes to the Canada Labour Code
- #Metoo Has Come to my Workplace, Now What Do We Do?
- Alberta’s 2019 Changes to Employment Legislation
- Limiting Language: Is Your Termination Clause Actually Effective?
- Employment Agreements for Start-ups
- Subcontractor Disputes under $50,000: Should I File a Builders’ Lien or Sue in Small Claims?
- No Contest Clause in Wills: MaWhinney v Scobie, 2019 ABCA 76
- Medical Marijuana: No Duty to Accept Unacceptable Risk
- A.H. v. Fraser Health Authority: Issues of Unlawful Detainment
- What to Do If You Receive an Employment Cease and Desist Letter
- Alberta Court of Appeal Settles Test for Summary Judgment…For Now?
- Providing an Employment Reference: Can You Be Honest?
- Is there a Script for Terminating Employees?
- What to Do If You Are Being Investigated at Work
- Employees Behaving Badly: Just Cause Termination for Conduct Outside the Workplace
- How the #MeToo Movement Will Challenge Employers’ Responses to Sexual Harassment Allegations
- The Enforceability of Non-Disclosure Clauses in Sexual Harassment Lawsuits
- Limits of Accommodating Marijuana Use in the Workplace
- Changes to Employment Law Summary Judgment in Alberta
- Terminating Part-time, Casual, or Irregular Hour Employees
- Social Hosting: Tips for Your Company Party (Now With Cannabis!)
- When Are Employees Fit to Work?
- Employers’ Duty of Good Faith and the Enforceability of Deemed Resignations
- Explanation of Formal Offers
- You Were Just Laid Off – Now What?
- Testamentary Gifts and Inter Vivos Gifts, A Distinction: Seguin v Pearson
- The de facto Application of the Business Judgment Rule to Condominium Boards in Alberta
- Goudge Report Summary
- Rule of Convenience
- When a Will Does Not Represent Free Will: the Kozak Estate Case and the Law of Undue Influence
- Don’t Take Their Word For It: Latent Defects And Why Disclosure Obligations Are Of Limited Value
- Testing the Limit: Suncor v Unifor
- Alberta’s New Workplace Laws
- The Issue of “Issue”: Construction of Wills When Parentage is Contested
- 10 Things to Know Before Making Your Will
- The 2017 Federal Budget’s Impact on Workers
- Should I Accept This Severance Package?
- Federally Regulated Employers Be Cautious
- The Pendulum Swings Toward Employees Regarding Bonus Entitlements
- Changing (or Litigating) Workplace Policy: The Requirement of Consideration
- Personal Injury Law Update: Dismissals for Long Delay (“Drop Dead Rule”)
- Unilateral Changes to Employment Contracts
- Navigating the Complexities of an Employment Termination
- Mental Illness in the Workplace: Legal Issues, Pre-emptive Solutions
- Update on the Law of Constructive Dismissal
- Managing Disabled Employees
- Alberta Court of Appeal Confirms New Approach for Summary Judgment Mandated by Supreme Court of Canada
- Category: Business Law
- Category: Commercial Litigation
- “Acting in Good Faith:” Lessons for Commercial Tenants and Landlords From a Recent Asbestos Management Dispute
- Carbert Waite LLP Ranked Tier #1 in Best Law Firms in Canada 2026 – A Publication By Best Lawyers®
- Carbert Waite LLP recognized in the 2026 Chambers and Partners Canada Guide
- Success before the SDAB — Major Development Permit Conditions Removed
- Power to Revoke Development Permit Must Be Exercised Fairly: Important Precedent Set in Landry v SDAB of Rocky View County
- Curtis Marble Contribution to IR Global
- Pitfalls Around Enforcing Your Foreign Judgment in Alberta
- Category: Condominium Law
- Category: Construction Litigation
- Threats to Commercial Landlords from Unpaid Tenant Improvement Work: Recent Lessons from the Alberta Court of Appeal
- Seminar on the New Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act
- Can Smart Contracts and Decentralized Legal Systems Revolution the Construction Contract?
- Planned Overhaul to Alberta’s Builders’ Lien Act
- Category: Cryptocurrency
- Category: Employment Law
- New Employment Insurance Board of Appeal Launched on April 1, 2026
- Terminations Do’s and Don’ts: Lessons from Carbert Waite’s Employment Law Seminar
- Ambiguous and Overbroad Non-Compete Clause Sinks Employer’s Injunction Application
- Employer Obligations to Support Parents During a Teachers’ Strike
- Employee Rights in Insolvency or Bankruptcy
- Managing Suspicious Sick Day Requests
- Failure to Vaccinate at WestJet: Not “Just Cause” Dismissal
- The Canada Post Labour Dispute – An Update
- Commission-Based Employees and Reasonable Notice: Understanding Entitlements Upon Termination
- Joseph Oppenheim’s commentary on Canadian HR Reporter: What constitutes ‘psychological injury’ in WCB claims?
- Changes to workplace violence and harassment prevention plans are now in effect in Alberta – are your policies compliant?
- Joseph Oppenheim’s commentary on Canadian HR Reporter: Tribunal dismisses workers’ racial discrimination complaints
- Mental Health in The Workplace: Navigating Accommodations in Accordance with The Alberta Human Rights Act
- Government Intervenes in Canada Post Strike
- Alberta’s New Bills 33 and 34: Changes to Public Sector Privacy and Access to Information
- 2024 CBA Administrative Law, and Labour and Employment Law Conference in Ottawa
- Breaking Down Canada Post’s Imminent Strike
- Changes to the Alberta Bill of Rights: What do they mean for the Alberta workforce?
- Roxanne Davis K.C., QArb, Awarded King’s Council Designation
- Navigating Complex Terminations: Insights from the May 28 Seminar
- The Dangers of Self-Represented Employers
- Tax Implications of Employment Settlements
- Accommodating Family Status and Child Care Obligations
- Melissa Rico Comments on Rogers Outage and How Employers May Have Responded in the Globe and Mail
- No Aggravated Damages for Independent Contractor
- Carbert Waite LLP Recognized on The Globe and Mail’s List of Canada’s Best Law Firms 2022
- Category: COVID-19 Resources
- Religious Accommodation Requests to Employer Vaccination Policies
- Navigating the Federal Vaccine Injury Support Program
- Melissa Rico Comments on Temporary Layoff Severance in the Globe and Mail
- WCB-Alberta and COVID-19: What Employers need to Know
- Temperature Screening at Work
- COVID-19: My Temporary Layoff Period is Expiring – Now What?
- The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
- COVID-19 Termination: What Severance is Required?
- COVID-19: Tips For Employers – Maximizing Benefits to Your Employees Facing Layoffs
- COVID-19: What Employees Need to Know
- Category: Estate Administration
- Category: Estate Litigation
- Category: Health Law
- Navigating the Federal Vaccine Impact Assistance Program (VIAP): VISP Replacement and What Claimants Need to Know in 2026
- Staying Compliant: Health Information Act Must-Dos for Alberta Health Professionals
- When the College Comes Calling: Why Early Legal Advice Matters for Healthcare Professionals
- Restructuring Alberta’s Healthcare System: What You Need to Know – May 20, 2025
- Exploring Rising Awards in Medical Malpractice Cases: What’s Driving the Trend?
- Michael Waite, Q.C. joins Chris Rokosh on Inside Medical Malpractice
- Category: Personal Injury & Negligence
- Category: Wills & Estates
- Category: News
- Honouring Hugh McQueen, KC
- We Welcome Sarah Barker and Christina Hassan, TEP, to Carbert Waite LLP’s Partnership.
- Carbert Waite LLP Honoured as One of Canada’s Top Regional Western Firms, 2025–2026
- Fourteen Carbert Waite Lawyers Have Been Recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada™
- The Legal Impact of Apologies in Alberta Malpractice Cases
- Cleared for Takeoff: Air Canada and Flight Attendants Land a New Deal
- Christina Hassan, TEP, New Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Calgary
- Carbert Waite LLP Volunteers at the Calgary Food Bank
- Welcome Jovan Gill to Carbert Waite LLP
- Carbert Waite LLP Celebrates 25 years of Dedication and Service
- Carbert Waite LLP Ranked Tier #1 in Best Law Firms in Canada 2025 – A Publication By Best Lawyers®
- Carbert Waite LLP Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work in Canada in 2025 by CHRR
- Carbert Waite LLP recognized in the 2025 Chambers and Partners Canada Guide
- Eleven Carbert Waite Lawyers Have Been Recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada™
- Eleanor Carlson Appointed as Communications Officer for the National CBA’s Wills, Estates & Trusts Section
- Michael Bokhaut at the 2024 Alberta Condominium and Real Estate Conference
- Upcoming LESA Webinar: Family Maintenance and Support Claims – Testamentary Intentions vs. Moral Obligations
- Welcome Sarah Ann Zebak to Carbert Waite LLP
- Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids: Increasing Food Access for Children in Need
- Roxanne Davis, K.C., QArb Is Now Acting As An Arbitrator
- Addressing Challenges: Kathleen O’Brien and Stephen Torscher’s Present on Mental Disability Accommodations
- Carbert Waite Sponsors CPHR Alberta HR Law Conference Hybrid Format: Navigating Current and Emerging Legal Trends
- Eleanor Carlson and Christina Hassan Earn TEP Designations from STEP: Canada
- Women in Law Leadership Awards Alberta Anita Nowinka Appointed Co-chair
- Carbert Waite LLP Announces Roxanne Davis as New Managing Partner
- New Partner Announcement – Eleanor Carlson and Alex Norris
- Carbert Waite Recognized as one of the ‘Best Places to Work 2023’ by Canadian HRReporter
- Duty to Accommodate – Dylan Snowdon and HR West Consulting
- Carbert Waite Lawyers Recognized as Best Lawyers in Canada™ for 2024
- CPHR Alberta Conference – EVOLVE 23
- Carbert Waite LLP to sponsor the School of Rock Calgary
- Carbert Waite Official Announcement – Introducing Colley Employment Law
- Michael Waite K.C. – 2023 Canadian Legal Lexpert®
- New Partner Announcement – Lauren Barteluk 
- Carbert Waite recognized as one of the ‘Best Places to Work 2022’ by Canadian HR Reporter
- Roxanne Davis in CPHR Alberta Magazine
- Carbert Waite LLP Official Announcement – Introducing Embury & West LLP!
- Carbert Waite LLP Recognized on The Globe and Mail’s List of Canada’s Best Law Firms 2023
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- Carbert Waite Lawyers Recognized as Best Lawyers in Canada™ for 2023
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- CPHR Alberta Annual Conference – Engage 22
- Blair Carbert’s Appointment as Queen’s Counsel 2022
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