In-House Counsel

  • November 26, 2025

    My best lesson in law school

    I had many wonderful profs in law school and had the honour of several of them becoming clients after I was called to the bar. I think they took pity on my struggling practice. But the most important lesson was not from a prof, but from a fellow student who wasn’t even there. Here’s how it goes.

  • November 26, 2025

    Retrospective review of Criterion 8 cases

    The Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) has released a steady stream of decisions addressing catastrophic impairment claims under Criterion 8, which concerns mental or behavioural disorders under the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule. A review of the decisions for the period of 2023 through 2025 reveals evolving patterns in applicant success rates and recurring themes in how adjudicators assess evidence and apply the AMA Guides, Fourth Edition.

  • November 26, 2025

    Budget 2025 introduces business and international tax changes, part two

    On Nov. 4, 2025, the federal government tabled Canada Strong: Budget 2025 (Budget 2025), marking Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s first budget tabled under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Carney.

  • November 25, 2025

    Court approves $26-million CIBC settlement over trailing commissions to discount brokers

    The Ontario Superior Court has approved a $26-million settlement resolving claims that CIBC improperly paid trailing commissions to discount brokers on behalf of investors in CIBC and Renaissance mutual funds.

  • November 25, 2025

    Budget 2025 introduces business and international tax changes

    On Nov. 4, the federal government tabled Canada Strong: Budget 2025 (Budget 2025), marking Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s first budget tabled under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Carney.

  • 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.’ ”

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.