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
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.
June 11, 2026
McKercher LLP has added six associate lawyers following their call to the bar, the Saskatchewan firm says.
June 11, 2026
Back when law was primarily a profession, and only incidentally a business, if you were not invited to become a partner in your law firm after seven years or so, you were expected to hang your head in shame and slink out of the firm. The system was called “Up or Out.” You either graduated to partnership, or you left the firm.
June 11, 2026
The United States constitution defines a U.S. citizen as any individual who is a citizen of the United States by law, birth or naturalization. But this isn’t always as clear as it may seem, as some individuals — particularly those born abroad to one or more U.S. citizen parents — may or may not be considered a U.S. citizen, sometimes without even knowing it.
June 11, 2026
Part one of this series (see below for link) examined the Canada Revenue Agency’s growing use of advanced analytics, risk-scoring systems and other technologies to help identify files for potential tax audit and compliance review.
June 10, 2026
The Supreme Court’s controversial Jordan decision, which has sparked the dismissal of thousands of cases due to unconstitutional trial delay, is still good law, but stays of proceedings are not a cure for undue systemic trial delay, Canada’s top judge says. “One stay of proceedings is too many,” Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner stressed at his annual press conference in Ottawa June 9.
June 10, 2026
Canada is launching its fourth annual high seas patrol mission to detect and deter illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the North Pacific Ocean, according to a June 9 release.