Business
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November 25, 2025
Competition Bureau warns businesses against advertising fake discounts
The Competition Bureau has issued a warning to businesses ahead of Black Friday that it’s “illegal to advertise fake discounts by promoting a made-up ‘regular price.’ ”
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November 25, 2025
Law360 Canada Pulse survey 2025: lawyers grapple with stress amid financial strain, long hours
The legal profession is going through seismic change as it grapples with things like artificial intelligence, but one issue that has been around for centuries still remains — stress. According to the 2025 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey — which marks Law360 Canada’s third deep dive into the feelings and thoughts that legal professionals have about their jobs — 85 per cent of associates say they are at least sometimes stressed by their finances, along with 77 per cent of those at small firms.
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November 25, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal upholds nine-year sentence despite Gladue
In R. v. Billy, 2025 BCCA 405, Clint Aaron Jeremy Billy appealed his nine-year cumulative sentence for a series of robberies and related imitation-firearm offences.
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November 25, 2025
TikTok Report: Quebec’s Law 25 rulings impact all organizations
In late September, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) and the privacy regulators in three provinces (Quebec, B.C. and Alberta) issued the report of their Joint Investigation regarding the personal information collection practices of TikTok (the TikTok Report), the social media platform particularly popular with youth (PIPEDAFindings # 2025-003, Sept. 23, 2025).
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November 25, 2025
Legal battles in the digital age: Copyright claims in the era of AI
AI-driven models have transformed everything from health care to finance, by leveraging massive datasets improving efficiency and innovation. The use of online news content as training data, however, without proper authorization has sparked significant debate. News organizations throughout North America and abroad are arguing that scraping their content both violates copyright law and undermines their ability to generate revenue through subscriptions and advertising. A growing number of legal cases are emerging pointing at the unauthorized scraping of online news and other content to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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November 25, 2025
CIVIL PROCEDURE - Appeals - Standard of review - Contempt of court
Appeal by appellant from an order declaring him in civil contempt. The appellant failed to provide adequate responses to several undertakings he was ordered to satisfy.
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November 24, 2025
Regulators call for stronger protection of children’s privacy in EdTech use, development
Canada’s privacy regulators have issued a joint resolution on protecting the privacy of “children and youth in the classroom through responsible educational technologies (EdTech) to help ensure that privacy rights and the best interests of children are paramount in the development, procurement, and deployment” of this technology.
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November 24, 2025
Manitoba introduces intimate images legislation with ‘nearly nude’ addition
Manitoba is proposing legislation to better protect people from the non-consentual sharing of intimate images by expanding the prohibition to include “nearly nude” versions.
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November 24, 2025
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from La Presse over allegations of copyright infringement
French language digital media outlet La Presse has filed a lawsuit suit against OpenAI over allegations that the company used its copyright-protected content to train ChatGPT without authorization.
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November 24, 2025
Court upholds Quebecor tax win, finds intra-group capital gains set-off not abusive
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a Tax Court finding that a series of intra-group transactions designed to offset capital gains and losses did not constitute abusive tax avoidance under the Income Tax Act.