Westcan Recyclers Ltd v. Calgary (City)

JurisdictionAlberta
CourtCourt of Appeal (Alberta)
Neutral Citation2025 ABCA 67
Citation2025 ABCA 67
Docket Number2301-0194AC; 2101-09833; 2201-10049
Date27 February 2025

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6 practice notes
  • Campbell v Alberta (Public Interest Commissioner)
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • June 1, 2026
    ...if the party received the degree of procedural fairness to which they are entitled by law: Westcan Recyclers Ltd v Calgary (City), 2025 ABCA 67 at para 25; Sandhu v College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, 2023 ABCA 61 at para 36; Magneson v Alberta Securities Commission, 2023 ABCA 34......
  • Westcan Recyclers Ltd v. Calgary (City)
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • April 28, 2025
    ...for a stay pending leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada of a decision of this Court in Westcan Recyclers Ltd v Calgary (City), 2025 ABCA 67 [Westcan ABCA] dated February 27, 2025. [2] The facts of this case are set out in detail in Westcan ABCA, and the decision below: Westcan Rec......
  • Koester v. Wheatland County
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • September 16, 2025
    ...View (County), 2021 ABCA 265 at paras 23, 43; Howse v Calgary (City), 2023 ABCA 379 at para 20; Westcan Recyclers Ltd v Calgary (City), 2025 ABCA 67 at para 59. [40] Section 539 does not, however, eliminate reasonableness as a standard of review: Koebisch at para 23; Howse at para 20; Terri......
  • Ross v. Canmore (Town)
    • Canada
    • Court of King's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
    • April 29, 2025
    ...Auer, 2024 SCC 36 (Auer); TransAlta Generation Partnership v Alberta, 2024 SCC 37 (Transalta) and Westcan Recyclers Ltd v Calgary (City), 2025 ABCA 67. [9] The parties agree on the principles set out in those cases, and I summarize the ones most relevant to this case as follows: · the stand......
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3 cases
  • Campbell v Alberta (Public Interest Commissioner)
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • June 1, 2026
    ...if the party received the degree of procedural fairness to which they are entitled by law: Westcan Recyclers Ltd v Calgary (City), 2025 ABCA 67 at para 25; Sandhu v College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, 2023 ABCA 61 at para 36; Magneson v Alberta Securities Commission, 2023 ABCA 34......
  • Westcan Recyclers Ltd v. Calgary (City)
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • April 28, 2025
    ...for a stay pending leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada of a decision of this Court in Westcan Recyclers Ltd v Calgary (City), 2025 ABCA 67 [Westcan ABCA] dated February 27, 2025. [2] The facts of this case are set out in detail in Westcan ABCA, and the decision below: Westcan Rec......
  • Widynowski v. Edmonton (City)
    • Canada
    • Court of King's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
    • November 20, 2025
    ...This section addresses a ground of challenge, but not the standard of review. As stated in Westcan Recyclers Ltd v Calgary (City), 2025 ABCA 67 [59] Reasonableness review does not consider the policy merits of the impugned subordinate legislation; it does not consider whether it is “necessa......