June 16, 2026
Ottawa has proposed a new legislative regime for private-sector privacy regulation that imposes a raft of obligations on how businesses and other non-governmental organizations handle Canadians’ personal data, with oversight from a robust dual privacy and digital harms regulator armed with audit and binding order-making powers, backed by hefty administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) and fines for the most serious new offences.
June 16, 2026
The federal government has appointed Richard J. Fyfe as a judge of the Court of King’s Bench for Saskatchewan, Family Law Division, in Regina.
June 16, 2026
Lenczner Slaght has added Peter Douglas as an associate in Toronto.
June 16, 2026
For decades, law firm owners have operated under an unspoken but deeply ingrained assumption: that growth requires sacrifice. You can have quality or volume. You can invest in talent or technology. You can serve existing clients or pursue new ones. You can build a profitable practice or a fulfilling one.
June 16, 2026
Hicks Morley has added Isabel de Wolde in Toronto and Jessica DeForest in Waterloo as associates.
June 16, 2026
In Angus A2A GP Inc v. Alvarez & Marsal Canada Inc., 2026 ABCA 156 (Angus A2A), the Alberta Court of Appeal recently upheld what it described as an “unusual” use of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) (CCAA), in which equity investors, rather than the debtor companies or their creditors, initiated the proceedings.
June 16, 2026
Ontario and the United Kingdom have signed a statement of intent (SOI) to collaborate on developing an integrated critical minerals supply chain.
June 16, 2026
The evil that men do reaches its lowest ebb in acts of pedophilia and, with the advent of the internet, in “sextortion” and emailing lewd pictures. But is it always men who engage in such activity?
June 16, 2026
On Aug. 1, 2026, the remaining provision of the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Amendment Act, 2025 (Bill 4-2025) will come into force, following an announcement on Feb. 9, 2026, by the B.C. Ministry of the Attorney General.
June 16, 2026
Appeal and application for judicial review by the Attorney General of Canada (Attorney General). This was from a decision of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (Tribunal) classifying imported surgical gloves as articles for use in surgical instruments, thereby qualifying them for duty-free importation. Medline Canada Corporation imported various models of sterile surgical gloves and initially classified them as surgical gloves of vulcanized rubber.