The Complete Brief
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November 11, 2025
Canada, Denmark sign agreement on quantum innovation partnership
Canada and Denmark have signed a joint statement on quantum cooperation to foster greater research and development ties to advance both countries’ quantum objectives and the ethical use of quantum technologies.
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November 11, 2025
Court awards over $2M in winery sale dispute over inventory, wrongful dismissal
The British Columbia Supreme Court has awarded a plaintiff more than $2 million in a dispute over the sale of a B.C. winery, addressing claims of unpaid inventory, wrongful dismissal, and counterclaims of fraud and misrepresentation.
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November 11, 2025
N.W.T. Indigenous children and youth still overrepresented in child protection: report
A report out of the Northwest Territories is sounding the alarm over the continued overrepresentation of Indigenous kids in the region’s child protection sector — as well as the lack of Indigenous staff to help them.
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November 11, 2025
Ontario’s top court declines to set aside sentence in theft of Karsh’s iconic portrait of Churchill
The lead lawyer in a high-profile case involving the theft of one of the world’s best-known photographs of the storied former British prime minister Winston Churchill plans to ask the country’s highest court to review a recent decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal, which declined to set aside the sentence imposed on his client in May.
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November 11, 2025
Miller Thomson adds Zachary Masoud to financial services group
Zachary Masoud has joined Miller Thomson as a partner in the firm’s financial services group in Toronto.
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November 11, 2025
Quebec announces three appointments to Superior Court
Louis-François Asselin, Benoit Lussier and Véronique Boucher have been appointed to the Superior Court of Quebec, the Department of Justice has announced.
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November 11, 2025
Hate-mongers should not be welcome in Canada
On Sept. 19, 2025, the federal government announced that the Irish rap band Kneecap had been deemed ineligible to enter the country, saying: “The group have amplified political violence and publicly displayed support for terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.”
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November 11, 2025
The limits of biometric surveillance
A recent decision by Quebec’s privacy regulator highlights the risks that organizations face when implementing biometric surveillance systems. In 2024, Metro Inc., a Canadian retailer, announced the launch of a biometric surveillance system in some of its Quebec stores. Metro planned to build a database of facial scans of the people visiting its stores based on the footage captured by Metro’s in-store security cameras. Metro hoped to use this database to identify shoplifters to protect itself from theft.
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November 11, 2025
New trial ordered in P.E.I. adjoining property dispute
A well-known line from Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall says, “Good fences make good neighbours.” Sometimes, building a fence or wall is an overly simple solution. When neighbours take each other to court and accusations of criminal behaviour are made, even the trial can become unpleasant. It was this sort of feud that led to the Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal case R. v. Moore, 2025 PECA 6.
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November 11, 2025
Deny, deny, deny, right up to the breakdown
“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.” — Mark Twain