Business

  • May 28, 2026

    Wildeboer Dellelce adds partner Marcus Hinkley

    Marcus Hinkley has joined Wildeboer Dellelce as a partner in Toronto, the firm says.

  • May 28, 2026

    Modernizing federal procurement: The case for arbitration

    Some progress has been made toward modernizing the Government of Canada’s federal procurement system. Achieving maximum efficiency has taken on heightened urgency as the federal government prepares to expand military procurement to unprecedented levels.

  • May 28, 2026

    Online age controls for children: Can they work?

    Recent events such as the Tumbler Ridge shootings have brought to a head the issue of protecting children and youth online. However, the landscape for online harms protection for young people is at a crossroad. Increasing concerns are militating toward adoption of mandated age-control rules in online harms laws and social media bans. Yet in their current state of development, the methodologies for such controls present significant privacy and other societal risks, not only for young people, but potentially all internet users.

  • May 27, 2026

    Bill C-22 requires further amendments to ‘ensure privacy protections,’ commissioner says

    On May 26, Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security to discuss Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, 2026. While the commissioner noted that Bill C-22 “improves on its predecessor Bill C-2 in several respects,” he warned that further amendments are needed to “strengthen and ensure privacy protections for Canadians.”

  • May 27, 2026

    Dentons adds 3 partners to banking and finance group

    Dentons Canada has welcomed Sunil Joneja, Alexandra Fox and Scott McLeman as partners in its banking and finance group in Calgary.

  • May 27, 2026

    AI v. immigration lawyer: Playing ‘Beat the Champ’

    These days, there is a lot of chatter about AI replacing jobs — even those of professionals like doctors and lawyers. But the role of AI isn’t really to prepare a case for someone; there is far too much nuance to the practice of immigration law, and to what makes most cases successful, than can be boiled down to a formula that can be followed by AI. That said, more and more of the initial vetting of ideas regarding what kinds of status one might qualify for is being done through AI, with mixed results.

  • May 27, 2026

    Lifting the veil on ‘the lift’: How CFEs and lawyers work together to expose hidden fraud

    In white-collar crime investigations, the most dangerous fraud often sounds the most ordinary. A property acquisition, a refinancing, a redemption, a distribution: on paper, these can look like routine business decisions, but they can just as easily be the perfect disguise for self‑dealing, concealment and misrepresentation.

  • May 26, 2026

    Court revives claim against Air Canada improperly struck as champertous

    The Ontario Divisional Court has reinstated an action against Air Canada over a delayed flight, ruling that the Small Claims Court erred in striking as champertous a claim brought by the purchaser of the airline tickets.

  • May 26, 2026

    Privacy commissioner urges safeguards in AI governance

    Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne addressed the topic of AI governance at the Venice Privacy Symposium in Italy, covering topics on privacy, building public trust and ethics and human rights.

  • May 26, 2026

    Saskatchewan regulator lists upcoming legal conferences

    It will be a jam-packed June of legal conferences at the Law Society of Saskatchewan, featuring sessions on child well-being in mediation, tribunal decision writing and the drafting of legislative documents in the environmental realm.

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