Other Areas of Practice
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October 17, 2025
Ontario privacy commissioner updates data de-identification guidelines
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has released an updated version of its “globally-recognized” De-Identification Guidelines for Structured Data, the first update since 2016 focusing on data privacy.
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October 17, 2025
Law Society of Ontario: Time to wipe the slate or start over with a new one?
As the originator of the idea to run a slate in the 2019 Law Society of Ontario bencher election, I am not sorry I did so. Slates have been blamed for everything from “open warfare” in convocation to the supposed erosion of public confidence in the legal profession. In a March 2023 edition of SLAW, one writer called the idea of lawyers organizing and debating as groups “repugnant.” He predicted that visible disagreement among factions of lawyers would lead to public distrust.
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October 17, 2025
Legal professionals under fire: Rising threats stir
In recent years, legal professionals across Canada, from Crown prosecutors to administrative staff have increasingly found themselves on the front lines of violence. High-profile assaults, random attacks and deadly outcomes are prompting reflection on how safe our legal system really is, and what must change.
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October 16, 2025
Procurement Ombud releases ‘mixed’ findings of ‘bait and switch’ in contracts
The Procurement Ombud has released a report discussing mixed findings of his Procurement Practice Review of “Bait and Switch” tactics in the replacement of resources in federal professional services contracts.
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October 16, 2025
Court grants orders to advance investigation of food testing business acquisition
The Competition Bureau has obtained court orders for the purpose of gathering information to advance its investigation into the acquisition of Bureau Veritas’ food testing business by Mérieux NutriSciences.
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October 15, 2025
Doug Ford shouldn’t boast about his parking lot shenanigans
Members of the public were taken aback earlier this week to hear Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford loudly boasting about threatening to give a stranger “a beating like he’s never got before.” Criminal lawyers were even more shocked by the premier’s telling of the tale, which he summed up with “that’s what you have to do.” According to comments attributed to him in a Toronto Star piece on Oct. 14, Ford was outraged, indeed filled with rage during the incident, when he also threatened to “kick [the person’s] ass all over the parking lot.”
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October 15, 2025
Court finds RCMP conduct adjudicator lacked jurisdiction to hear case
The Federal Court has allowed a judicial review of a decision where a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) argued that an adjudicator did not have jurisdiction on an appeal relating to conduct.
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October 15, 2025
Canadian victims of $15M U.S.-based fraud encouraged to seek compensation
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) is encouraging B.C. victims of a U.S.-based $15 million pyramid and Ponzi scheme to file their claims with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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October 14, 2025
Privacy regulators discuss AI, cybersecurity and data risks in annual meeting
Federal, provincial and territorial information and privacy commissioners, along with ombudspersons responsible for access and privacy laws, concluded their two-day meeting in Banff focusing on emerging issues including cybersecurity risks, protection of children online and the use of AI in tribunals, the legal practice and health care.
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October 14, 2025
Accessibility Standards Canada publishes ‘milestone’ first Plain Language Standard
Accessibility Standards Canada (ASC) has published the CAN-ASC-3.1:2025 Plain Language standard, an equity-based standard which is the first National Standard of Canada on plain language.