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Canadians Beware – U.S. Move To End Paper Cheques for Federal Payments

On March 25th, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 4247 (“EO 4247“) directing the U.S. Department of the Treasury to transition all federal disbursements and collections into electronic format; effectively ending the use of paper cheques. By September 30th, 2025, paper cheques for federal payments (notably tax refunds and…

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What is the “Entire File”?

In Yurkiw Estate (Re), 2025 BCSC 1026 (CanLII), the Supreme Court of British Columbia clarified the scope of an estate trustee’s file that must be disclosed to beneficiaries. On November 21, 2024, the court ordered Heritage Trust, the estate trustee of the estate of David Thomas George Yurkiw, to produce its…

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