June 11, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada says it will continue to provide the bar, litigants and the public with all its usual services from its historic courthouse in Ottawa while its judges and registry staff undertake a phased move to the court’s temporary facilities across the street during the months of July and August.
June 11, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand energy trade and infrastructure, critical minerals, manufacturing, life sciences and more.
June 11, 2026
The Senate has passed Bill S-215, the National Immigration Month Act, which would designate November as National Immigration Month in Canada to recognize the role of immigrants in the country’s history and development.
June 11, 2026
The federal Liberal government’s expansive new bill targeting online harms to children from social media and AI chatbots also takes aim at terrorism and violent extremist content, content that foments hatred and intimate content communicated without consent. Introduced in the House of Commons June 10 by Marc Miller, the minister of Canadian identity and culture, the 92-page Safe Social Media Act (Bill C-34) would enact two other statutes: the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act.
June 11, 2026
Elon Musk’s xAI and social media platform X violated federal privacy law by launching Grok’s image-generation tool without adequate safeguards, which allowed users to create and share non-consensual sexualized deepfakes, Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said on June 11.
June 11, 2026
There is a particular kind of institutional embarrassment that arrives quietly, without fanfare, in the form of a provincial news release.
June 11, 2026
The Federal Court has set aside a decision of an independent chairperson at Stony Mountain Institution in Manitoba that found an inmate guilty of a disciplinary offence.
June 11, 2026
The Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson has announced a systemic examination into “delays taxpayers are experiencing when the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) determines that a T1 adjustment is complex.”
June 11, 2026
Dickinson Wright has announced that Dave Stern and Corey Hock have joined its Toronto office. Stern joins as a partner and Hock as of counsel.
June 11, 2026
Fadi Amine has joined Gowling WLG as a partner in its commercial litigation group in Montreal, the firm says.