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10/17/2021

Check out Sherry Simons' new article in LawNow: Wills, Personal Directives and Powers of Attorney: What’s the difference?

https://www.lawnow.org/wills-personal-directives-and-powers-of-attorney-whats-the-difference/

Wills, Personal Directives and Powers of Attorney: What’s the difference? October 7, 2021 By Sherry Simons Reading Time: 4 minutes A complete estate plan includes three documents: a Will, Enduring Power of Attorney, and Personal Directive. Are you prepared? Photo from Pixabay/Pexels A complete est...

07/13/2021

Joint Review Panel Denies Applications for Grassy Mountain Coal Project

Joint Review Panel Denies Applications for Grassy Mountain Coal Project On June 17, 2021, a joint review panel denied Benga Mining Limited’s applications for the Grassy Mountain Coal Project. The panel found the project is not in the public interest under Alberta’s Coal Conservation Act because ...

03/24/2021

Buying your first home? If you are in the market to buy, hear from our lawyer Sherry Simons and other real estate experts about what to expect when buying your first home at our free online seminar on April 18th.

Join real estate, financing, legal, and inspection professionals as they go over all aspects of the home buying process!

02/23/2021

Spring is just around the corner! If you are in the market to buy a home this spring, hear from our own Sherry Simons and other real estate experts about what to expect when buying your first home at our free online seminar on March 7th.

Join real estate, financing, legal, and inspection professionals as they go over all aspects of the home buying process!

11/02/2020

In the market to buy a home? Hear from our own Sherry Simons and other real estate experts about what to expect when buying your first home at our free online seminar November 15th.

We'll share some things you need to know about buying a home!

09/16/2020

In the market to buy a home? Hear from our own Sherry Simons and other real estate experts about what to expect when buying your first home at our free online seminar this October 4th.

We'll share some things you need to know about buying a home!

07/08/2020

Congratulations to Sherry Simons – Women in Law Award 2020 winner for Estate Planning

Congratulations to one of our lawyers, Sherry Simons, for being recognized with a Women in Law Award in the area of estate planning (https://womeninlawawards.lawyer-monthly.com/winners-edition/). Sherry has been with Ackroyd LLP since 2016 and practices in wills and estates, real estate, corporate a...

06/16/2020

Stunning Aboriginal Artwork Across Canada

Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!

06/16/2020

Thinking of buying a home? Hear from one of our lawyers and other real estate experts about what you should know about buying a home during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://eventbrite.ca/e/buying-a-home-in-edmonton-during-covid-19-tickets-109077291114

06/16/2020

We want to send a huge thank you to this year's Sponsors & Funders (or as we have lovingly come to call them !spunders). Without every single one of these organizations, Nextfest 2020 couldn't have happened.

Let's give them some hearts and thank them for supporting local emerging art!

Thank you to Theatre Network, Syncrude Canada Ltd, Old Strathcona - Whyte Avenue, CBC Edmonton, Special Risk Insurance Managers Ltd, Business/Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Government Of Canada, Edmonton Arts Council, City of Edmonton, ICU Video Production Ltd, Epic Photography, The Alberta Q***r Calendar Project, Ackroyd LLP, Print Machine Edmonton, Avenue Edmonton, Alberta Playwrights' Network, Good Women Dance Collective, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Victoria School of the Arts, L'UniThéâtre, MacEwan University, Edmonton Community Foundation, University of Alberta, and Theatre Alberta.

06/03/2020

Judicial Appointments to the Province of Alberta

The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments under the judicial application process established in 2016. This process emphasizes transparency, merit, and diversity, and will continue to ensure the appointment of jurists....

05/28/2020

Case summary of Borgel v Paintearth (Subdivision and Development Appeal Board), 2020 ABCA 192

In the recent Alberta Court of Appeal case of Borgel v Paintearth (Subdivision and Development Appeal Board), 2020 ABCA 192, the unanimous Court (Watson, Wakeling and Strekaf JJA) found that the County of Paintearth Subdivision and Development Appeal Board (SDAB) had breached its duty of procedural....