June 29, 2026
Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne and his G7 Data Protection and Privacy Authorities Roundtable counterparts gathered last week for their sixth annual meeting, which focused on the protection of children’s privacy online.
June 29, 2026
The voluntary nature of King Charles’s tax payments has already attracted misuse by tax protesters, who argue by analogy that if taxation is voluntary for the monarch, it must be voluntary for all. This argument has no validity under Canadian law. It is, however, only the latest iteration of a broader family of pseudolegal commercial arguments that Canadian courts have been rejecting for decades.
June 29, 2026
In July 1868, when the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was adopted into the Constitution of the United States, it declared: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” While initially incorporated into the Constitution to overturn the Scott v. Sandford, 1856 U.S. LEXIS 472 decision and guarantee citizenship to formerly enslaved individuals, the Citizenship Clause has since become the foundation of birthright citizenship in the United States.
June 29, 2026
Many non-Indigenous Canadians are unaware that within the Indigenous community, many are dissatisfied with their leadership. Some are so jaded that they suspect their leaders are corrupt. This unacknowledged tension may be at the heart of a charge laid against Eddy Walter Cliffe, otherwise known as Hə' Yəł' Kən. He appealed a 21-month jail sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to arson causing damage to property.
June 29, 2026
Citing a “meaningful legislative difference” between the treatment and retention of DNA samples taken from convicted offenders and discharged offenders under the DNA Identification Act, the Court of Appeal for Ontario unanimously upheld a lower court appeal decision, rejecting arguments by the Crown to force a discharged offender to provide DNA samples.
June 29, 2026
While the Ahluwalia decision solidified a groundbreaking civil framework for addressing coercive control, Parliament simultaneously built a parallel carceral one (Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16). The federal intention behind Bill C-16 is well-intentioned — aiming to intervene early, recognize psychological containment as violence, and treat coercive control as a precursor to lethal escalation.
June 26, 2026
Underscoring the breadth of the constitutional obligation of first-party Crown disclosure to the defence, the Supreme Court of Canada has 7-0 clarified and elaborated on the scope of the duties of Crown and the police to disclose to the accused relevant police disciplinary records, as was previously established by R. v. McNeil, 2009 SCC 3.
June 26, 2026
The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld the certification of a proposed class action against consulting giant McKinsey & Co. over allegations that it worked closely with opioid manufacturers and distributors to increase the sale and distribution of opioids in Canada for unsuitable uses.
June 26, 2026
Nova Scotia has introduced higher fines and new offences in a bid to battle the illegal cannabis market.
June 26, 2026
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has provided an update on its work with partners to target individuals involved in organized crime with a focus on those linked to extortion-related activities, noting it removes 400 inadmissible individuals every week.