The Complete Brief
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December 16, 2025
Feds announce Buy Canadian policy now in effect
Canada has announced that core elements of the Buy Canadian policy have been implemented and are now in effect. It said the policy supports workers, strengthens domestic industries and creates a more diversified economy.
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December 16, 2025
Court confirms patients are relevant consumers in prescription-drug trademark confusion analysis
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a trademark injunction against Samsung and Biogen over their BYOOVIZ biosimilar, ruling that patients are relevant consumers in assessing confusion with Novartis’s trademark in BEOVU, a drug used to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
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December 16, 2025
Atlantic premiers release report, recommendations on domestic homicide
Atlantic Canada’s premiers have collectively released a decades-long report on domestic homicides in the region — and hope that it will increase prevention. According to a Dec. 11 news release, the Council of Atlantic Premiers (CAP) — made up of leaders from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and P.E.I. — has released Preventing Domestic Homicides in Atlantic Canada: Looking Back to See Our Way Forward.
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December 16, 2025
Ottawa sanctions four senior Iranian officials for gross human rights violations in Iran
Ottawa has imposed sanctions against four Iranian senior officials who the federal government says “have been involved in gross and systematic human rights violations” in the Islamic Republic of Iran where they “have had a significant role in facilitating and directing repressive policies.”
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December 16, 2025
Ontario appoints 2 new judges
The federal government has appointed two new judges in Ontario, including one to the province’s top court, the Department of Justice has announced.
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December 16, 2025
Quebec courts welcome 4 new judicial appointments
The federal government has announced four judicial appointments in Quebec, including one to the Court of Appeal and three to the Superior Court, according to the Department of Justice.
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December 16, 2025
Terms of warrant come into question in London, Ont., firearms case
A nurse from London, Ont., Lynda Marques, was shot and killed on Sept.10, 2021, by two masked men believed to be rivals of her fiancé, Ali Bhatti, as she was parking in the driveway of the home she shared with Bhatti.
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December 16, 2025
Hosel rockets: ‘Sandbagger?! I’ll see you in court!’
A couple of incidents that happened while playing golf have been bothering me. It started a few years ago during an invitational tournament at what was then known as Doral Golf and Country Club in Florida. Our happy foursome was finishing the front nine of the famous 18-hole course called the Blue Monster. While waiting on the ninth tee, staring down a par three over water and into a stiff breeze, I made small talk with the fellows in our group: “Who won the tournament last year?” Their expressions suddenly turned sour, and one muttered, “Two [expletive] sandbaggers!” Then another added, “Those [expletive] cheaters will never be invited back, [expletive] them.”
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December 16, 2025
A real and substantial connection: Ontario court confirms jurisdiction in AI copyright case
The Superior Court of Justice has issued an important decision concerning allegations of infringement asserted against AI companies. The decision may help rights holders (Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. v. OpenAI Inc., 2025 ONSC 6217).
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December 16, 2025
A plea for more respect from family law practitioners
It has been a very busy fall and, perhaps like you, I have been hanging on for the Christmas break. For me, it is the best time of the year. In my experience, it is the only time when most if not all family law clients and their lawyers try to step back, take a breath and treat each other with the respect and courtesy that should be a year-round norm.