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The company filed documents in Federal Court in Vancouver on Dec. 5, seeking to set aside the order to wind-up and cease business in Canada. 

The case comes 15 years after a ruling from B.C.'s top court that found Victoria could not ban people from sleeping in parks overnight if indoor accommodation wasn't available.

Bennett Jensen is the legal director for one of two organizations jointly challenging the law.

York University says Alan Young, a lawyer and legal scholar known for leading the challenge of Canada’s prostitution laws before the country's top court, has died at age 69.

Canada had previously signalled an aim to fully decarbonize electricity grids by 2035. But some provinces, namely Alberta and Saskatchewan, said that was simply not doable.

A social services agency that operates a supervised consumption site in Toronto has filed a legal challenge against recently passed legislation that will shut down several sites.

A 26 year-old former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train AI systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died.

Expert says proposed Quebec legislation forcing new doctors to practice in the Quebec's public system for five years could violate Charter-guaranteed rights to freedom of movement.

Saskatchewan's highest court has given a thumbs-down to an appeal in a legal case involving the use of an emoji.

Dillon Dube, Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Foote and Alex Formenton were charged with sexual assault this year in an incident that allegedly took place in the city in June 2018.

The cull carried out with air rifles began in October in Longueuil after years of legal battles with animal rights groups seeking to save the animals.

In Montreal, a group of residents is trying to hit the brakes on new bike lanes and threatening to sue the city over how it handles setting up cycling infrastructure.

The proportion of Canadians who smoke cannabis has decreased since legalization, though a recent survey shows it remains the most common method of consumption.

Quebec provincial police estimate that reducing the legal blood-alcohol limit to .05 would save between 10 and 14 lives every year on the province's roadways.

There is an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics.

A U.S. military judge has scheduled hearings for the defendants to enter guilty pleas in exchange for life sentences despite Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's effort to squash them.

Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election victory on Wednesday will essentially end the criminal cases brought against him, at least for the four years he occupies the White House.

Former “Harry Potter” film actor Rupert Grint faces a 1.8 million-pound ($2.3 million) bill after he lost a legal battle with the tax authorities.

The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work.

The number of encampments in downtowns large and small across the province has grown in recent years, with mayors demanding solutions.