Media Release For immediate release: December 1, 2025 A small Pride organization in Northwestern Ontario and one of its corporate directors have launched multiple legal proceedings in response to a wave of harassment, death threats, and other reprisals that followed their landmark human rights victory against a local municipality last year.   Background   On November 20, 2024, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario released Borderland Pride v. The Corporation of the Township of Emo , 2024 HRTO...

Case Summary Judson Howie LLP et al v. Blackwell, 2025 ONSC 6689 In Judson Howie LLP et al v. Blackwell , 2025 ONSC 6689 , Newton RSJ granted our firm’s application for a permanent injunction requiring the respondent—a self-represented litigant—to remove from publication more than one hundred defamatory online publications about our firm and its named partners. The respondent's publications appeared after the court had ordered a substantial defamation judgment against him, in August 2025, in...

Statement For immediate release: November 25, 2025 Peter A. Howie, a partner with Judson Howie LLP, made the following statement in response to the Government of Ontario's proposed bail reform (which were announced on November 24, 2025): "Fort Frances and the Rainy River District are reeling from the impact of the opioid crisis, which disproportionately affects the First Nations people in the region. Generally, people feel less safe than they did before the pandemic. It is understandable...