Business
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December 16, 2025
Feds announce Buy Canadian policy now in effect
Canada has announced that core elements of the Buy Canadian policy have been implemented and are now in effect. It said the policy supports workers, strengthens domestic industries and creates a more diversified economy.
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December 16, 2025
Court confirms patients are relevant consumers in prescription-drug trademark confusion analysis
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a trademark injunction against Samsung and Biogen over their BYOOVIZ biosimilar, ruling that patients are relevant consumers in assessing confusion with Novartis’s trademark in BEOVU, a drug used to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
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December 16, 2025
Ottawa sanctions four senior Iranian officials for gross human rights violations in Iran
Ottawa has imposed sanctions against four Iranian senior officials who the federal government says “have been involved in gross and systematic human rights violations” in the Islamic Republic of Iran where they “have had a significant role in facilitating and directing repressive policies.”
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December 16, 2025
Hosel rockets: ‘Sandbagger?! I’ll see you in court!’
A couple of incidents that happened while playing golf have been bothering me. It started a few years ago during an invitational tournament at what was then known as Doral Golf and Country Club in Florida. Our happy foursome was finishing the front nine of the famous 18-hole course called the Blue Monster. While waiting on the ninth tee, staring down a par three over water and into a stiff breeze, I made small talk with the fellows in our group: “Who won the tournament last year?” Their expressions suddenly turned sour, and one muttered, “Two [expletive] sandbaggers!” Then another added, “Those [expletive] cheaters will never be invited back, [expletive] them.”
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December 16, 2025
A real and substantial connection: Ontario court confirms jurisdiction in AI copyright case
The Superior Court of Justice has issued an important decision concerning allegations of infringement asserted against AI companies. The decision may help rights holders (Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. v. OpenAI Inc., 2025 ONSC 6217).
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December 16, 2025
A plea for more respect from family law practitioners
It has been a very busy fall and, perhaps like you, I have been hanging on for the Christmas break. For me, it is the best time of the year. In my experience, it is the only time when most if not all family law clients and their lawyers try to step back, take a breath and treat each other with the respect and courtesy that should be a year-round norm.
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December 15, 2025
Ontario announces draft regulation for mutual free-trade recognition
Ontario has announced it is publishing a draft regulation under the Ontario Free Trade and Mobility Act to implement mutual recognition of goods and services from reciprocating Canadian jurisdictions. The move will support economic integration and remove internal trade barriers, which the province said costs the economy up to $200 billion every year.
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December 15, 2025
Federal Court of Appeal calls out CRA for pattern of inadequate reasons in relief decisions
The Federal Court of Appeal has set aside a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) decision denying a taxpayer permission to file late tax returns and preventing the taxpayer from obtaining a refund, ruling that the agency failed to provide an adequate explanation for its refusal.
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December 15, 2025
B.C. court dismisses appeal; treaty-rights defence over severalty land can proceed
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal of a regional district and the province, upholding the finding that it may be arguable that lands that were transferred in fee simple under a treaty agreement may still have some characteristics of treaty land for purposes of s. 35 of the Constitution Act.
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December 15, 2025
New Alberta legislation limits law society’s education, disciplinary powers
Hot on the heels of a controversial bill to limit the disciplinary authority of professional regulatory bodies, Alberta legislators have also passed a bill that brings significant change to the governance of the legal profession in the province — a move some legal observers are saying seems to reflect a distrust of the provincial law society.