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The Children's Aid Society brought a protection application seeking Crown wardship of a five-year-old child with severe behavioural and special needs.

The mother did not participate in the trial.

The father, who had an extensive criminal record and had been absent for most of the child's life, sought placement of the child in his care under a supervision order.

The court found the child in need of protection due to the mother's inability to manage the child's extreme aggressive behaviours.

The court rejected the father's plan, finding he lacked insight into the child's complex needs and had failed to complete recommended programs in a timely manner.

The child was made a Crown ward with supervised access granted to the father.

The parties settled the issue of costs following a previous endorsement.

The respondent municipality was ordered to pay the applicant fixed costs in the amount of $20,313.73.

The applicant wife sought to set aside a separation agreement after discovering the respondent husband had secretly mortgaged the matrimonial home with his mother, withdrawing most of its equity prior to separation.

The husband failed to participate in the proceedings, resulting in an undefended trial.

The court set aside the separation agreement due to the husband's material misrepresentation of his liabilities.

The court found the husband and his mother held the property on a resulting trust for the parties, and the wife had a constructive trust interest.

The husband's secret mortgage constituted a reckless depletion of family property.

The husband was ordered to pay the wife half the unencumbered value of the home plus full recovery costs.

The applicant, who held a registered easement over a property used as a common area by cottagers, sought a declaration to void a municipal tax sale of the property.

The City had proceeded with the sale after the registered owners failed to pay taxes for years.

The applicant argued the City's treasurer failed to exercise his discretion to stop the sale, which would prejudice the cottagers' use of the land.

The court found the treasurer failed to exercise his broad discretion to ensure fairness, rendering the process unreasonable.

The tax sale was declared void, but the court declined to order the City to provide notice of future tax sales to easement holders, as the Municipal Act does not require it.

The Children's Aid Society brought a motion for directions after discovering it had failed to serve the First Nation before obtaining a Crown wardship order for an Indigenous child.

The court found the original order was a nullity as against the First Nation due to the lack of notice.

Applying Rule 25(19) of the Family Law Rules, the court varied the Crown wardship order in accordance with minutes of settlement to add the First Nation as a party, formally recognize the child's Indigenous status, and mandate specific cultural access and community connection provisions.

The applicant mother sought an order for substituted service of her application and affidavit on the respondents (the child's paternal aunt, uncle, and the child's other parent) who had been granted final custody of the child in a prior child protection proceeding.

The respondents could not be located at known addresses.

The Children's Aid Society opposed the motion, arguing it lacked mandate and resources to participate in private proceedings and could not disclose address information.

The court granted the motion, ordering substituted service through multiple methods: private Facebook messages to two respondents and text message to the third, as well as service through the Children's Aid Society by ordinary mail to last known addresses on file.

The applicant mother sought sole custody and retroactive child support for a child with severe special needs, including Prader Willi Syndrome.

The respondent father had minimal contact with the child, actively concealed his income and whereabouts, and failed to pay adequate support.

The court granted the mother sole custody with access at her discretion.

Finding a material change in circumstances, the court imputed income to the father and ordered retroactive child support dating back to 2008, as well as proportionate contributions to ongoing section 7 expenses.

The plaintiff sought unliquidated damages for personal injuries sustained during a dog attack.

The defendant was noted in default.

The court found the defendant strictly liable under the Dog Owner's Liability Act for the plaintiff's injuries, which occurred when the defendant's dog was set upon him, causing him to fall and sustain severe hand lacerations and other injuries.

General damages, subrogated damages, and special damages for care were awarded.

Following an interim custody motion where the applicant maternal aunt was awarded primary care of the child and the respondent father was awarded access, the court determined costs.

The court found the applicant was more successful and presumptively entitled to costs, despite divided success.

Considering the unreasonable behaviour of both parties and the excessive time spent, the court fixed costs at $7,000 payable by the respondent father to the applicant.

The moving party (respondent in the main application) brought a motion to cancel a matrimonial designation on his property and to terminate temporary spousal support, after the responding party's pleadings on financial issues were struck.

The court granted the cancellation of the matrimonial designation.

The court declined to terminate spousal support entirely but varied the temporary order, reducing it from $4,000 to $1,800 per month, noting the short cohabitation, the responding party's lack of effort to become self-sufficient, and the moving party's significant prior payments.

The applicant mother brought an uncontested motion to change a 2012 Alberta order regarding custody, access, and child support.

The respondent father had moved to Europe, ceased exercising access, and failed to disclose his income or pay appropriate child support.

The court granted the mother sole custody, ordered that any access by the father be supervised, and imputed the father's income at $110,000.

The court also ordered the father to pay ongoing and retroactive table support and section 7 expenses dating back to June 2012, and permitted the mother to travel outside Canada with the children without the father's consent.

In a child protection proceeding under the Child and Family Services Act, multiple motions addressed parenting arrangements and access involving a child residing with the mother under supervision.

The child protection agency sought restrictions preventing the mother’s partner from contact with the child and proposed overnight access with the maternal grandmother.

The maternal grandmother moved for custody or, alternatively, expanded access.

The court found ongoing concerns regarding the mother’s judgment, including exposure of the child to domestic violence and disregard for prior court orders, but concluded that the mother should be given a final opportunity to demonstrate that the child’s safety would be prioritized.

The grandmother’s custody motion was adjourned while access was expanded to include weekly overnight visits and alternate weekend access.

The Catholic Children's Aid Society brought a summary judgment motion seeking Crown wardship with no access for a 20-month-old child who had been in care since birth.

The child's parents did not oppose the motion, but the maternal grandmother sought custody or access.

The court found no genuine issue for trial regarding the grandmother's plan, noting her history of child welfare involvement, substance abuse, and lack of insight.

The court granted summary judgment, finding the child in need of protection and ordering Crown wardship with no access to facilitate adoption.

A municipality brought a motion seeking payment of surplus funds from a tax sale that had been paid into court after the former property owners failed to apply for the funds within one year under s. 380 of the Municipal Act, 2001.

The court found insufficient evidence that the treasurer had properly notified the former owners that surplus proceeds had been paid into court and that they had a right to claim them.

The municipality relied on affidavit evidence from a law clerk and documentation relating to earlier tax arrears notices, but did not demonstrate compliance with statutory notice requirements regarding the surplus.

The court held that fairness requires reasonable efforts to notify former owners and provide clear instructions on how to claim surplus funds.

The court ordered that registered notice and a prescribed form be sent to the former owners and set a process allowing them to claim the funds before any forfeiture to the municipality.

The child protection agency sought summary judgment for Crown wardship without access for two children who had been in care for extended periods.

The mother had a history of substance abuse and abusive relationships but had made significant progress following residential treatment, including maintaining sobriety, stable housing, and consistent access visits.

The agency argued that a relapse and contact with a prohibited partner justified Crown wardship without trial.

The court held that the single relapse did not make Crown wardship a foregone conclusion and that insufficient evidence was provided regarding the children's best interests and adoption planning.

Summary judgment was dismissed and the matter directed to a limited trial on the mother’s capacity to safely parent under supervision and related access issues.

The applicant father sought a provisional order under the Divorce Act to vary his child and spousal support obligations, as the respondent mother resided in New Brunswick and did not attorn to Ontario's jurisdiction.

The father argued that child support should be terminated for their two adult children because one had moved in with him and secured full-time employment, and the other had taken a hiatus from her studies before returning to university.

He also sought to terminate spousal support due to the mother's remarriage.

The court admitted the father's hearsay evidence as necessary and reliable for a provisional hearing.

The court found material changes in circumstances, terminating child support for the son, suspending and then reinstating child support for the daughter, and reducing spousal support by 20 percent annually.

The provisional order was made subject to confirmation by the New Brunswick court.

The applicant, a charitable non-profit corporation, sought a declaration that its 40-unit apartment building for low-income seniors was exempt from municipal taxation under s. 3(1) para. 12(iii) of the Assessment Act.

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation opposed, arguing the applicant merely provided affordable housing rather than relieving poverty.

The court found that the term 'poor' is relative and not limited to the destitute.

Given the tenants' average and median incomes, which closely aligned with Statistics Canada's low-income cut-offs, the court concluded the residents were 'poor' within the meaning of the Act.

The application was allowed and the property was declared exempt from municipal taxation.

The applicant law firms brought an application to declare the respondent a vexatious litigant under s. 140 of the Courts of Justice Act.

The respondent had a history of initiating multiple proceedings against his former lawyers, including solicitor negligence claims and assessments of accounts, while failing to pay numerous costs awards.

The court found the respondent's conduct met the criteria for a vexatious litigant and ordered that he may not institute or continue any proceeding without leave of the court.

An uncontested family trial concerning custody, child support, and divorce following the parties’ separation.

The applicant sought sole custody of the child and guideline child support after the respondent failed to file an answer or financial statement and did not appear at trial.

The court accepted the applicant’s evidence regarding caregiving history, the child’s living circumstances, and concerns about the respondent’s alcohol use and parenting conduct.

Income was imputed to the respondent due to the absence of financial disclosure.

The court granted sole custody to the applicant with reasonable access to the respondent, ordered guideline child support based on imputed income, addressed section 7 expenses and insurance obligations, and granted a divorce.

The applicant and one respondent were successful in an application to remove a matter from the Mining Lands Commissioner to the Superior Court of Justice.

They sought costs totaling over $120,000 against the unsuccessful self-represented respondent.

The court declined to award costs, finding the amounts claimed far exceeded reasonable expectations, the law was unclear, and a substantial award would be financially crushing to the unsuccessful party.

Each party was ordered to bear its own costs.