June 26, 2026
The federal government has announced plans for a 24/7 marine security operations centre in Niagara and up to 11 new radar sites across the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence as part of the Canadian Coast Guard’s expanded maritime security role.
June 25, 2026
The federal cyber security authority is calling on organizations across Canada to strengthen their cyber security practices to address emerging risks linked to frontier artificial intelligence (AI).
June 24, 2026
The British Columbia Supreme Court has certified statutory privacy tort claims in a 2023 data breach affecting nearly 1.5 million Canadian investors, but held that overlapping negligence and breach-of-contract claims should proceed in an existing national class action in Ontario.
June 23, 2026
The Ontario Securities Commission’s (OSC) proposal to make securities regulation machine-readable could require regulators to make interpretive choices that have traditionally been left to lawyers and market participants, according to Cassels Capital Markets Group partner Gregory Hogan.
June 19, 2026
In an investigation report released on June 11, the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) found that the AI chatbot Grok, a feature offered to users of X, the social media platform (formerly Twitter), breached the current privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), by creating sexualized artificial images of real people, in particular women and children, without their consent.
June 16, 2026
Ottawa has proposed a new legislative regime for private-sector privacy regulation that imposes a raft of obligations on how businesses and other non-governmental organizations handle Canadians’ personal data, with oversight from a robust dual privacy and digital harms regulator armed with audit and binding order-making powers, backed by hefty administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) and fines for the most serious new offences.
June 12, 2026
Canada’s telecommunications regulator has launched a consultation to bring protections for buyers of internet, cellphone, home phone and television services together under a single code.
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 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.