Other Areas of Practice
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October 20, 2025
Feds seek feedback from Canadians and suppliers on Buy Canadian policy
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) has announced it is going ahead with a new Buy Canadian policy that aims to ensure federal spending supports economic growth, strengthens supply chains and creates opportunities for businesses. It is now seeking feedback on the policy.
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October 20, 2025
View from inside prison: What to do if your friend is arrested
About 250,000 people are charged with a crime in Canada every year. Estimates are that about four million Canadian adults have a criminal record. That’s about one in eight adults, and probably about one in five or six adult men. Which means that most of us know someone — quite possibly more than one person — who has been convicted of a crime.
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October 17, 2025
PM announces new border security measures, legislation amendment
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced new measures from Budget 2025 to enhance security at the border, including hiring more Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers, increasing the CBSA’s stipend for the first time in 20 years and amending the Public Service Superannuation Act.
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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.