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 16, 2026
The federal government has appointed Richard J. Fyfe as a judge of the Court of King’s Bench for Saskatchewan, Family Law Division, in Regina.
June 16, 2026
Lenczner Slaght has added Peter Douglas as an associate in Toronto.
June 16, 2026
For decades, law firm owners have operated under an unspoken but deeply ingrained assumption: that growth requires sacrifice. You can have quality or volume. You can invest in talent or technology. You can serve existing clients or pursue new ones. You can build a profitable practice or a fulfilling one.
June 16, 2026
Hicks Morley has added Isabel de Wolde in Toronto and Jessica DeForest in Waterloo as associates.
June 16, 2026
“You don’t go to prison to make friends” is one of the aphorisms new prisoners often hear. Connections with other people are fundamental to human life; we all need meaningful relationships with others. There’s lots of evidence that a lack of human connection is bad for our physical and mental health. But human connection takes on a very different form when you are in prison.
June 15, 2026
The Federal Court has explained why two years ago it secretly issued the first cyber “threat reduction measures warrant” to enable the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to protect domestic critical infrastructure and reduce the threat from two unnamed “foreign adversaries” that had infected with malware certain Canadian servers, small office or home office routers and “Internet of Things” devices (such as Ring video doorbells, security cameras, televisions and other Wi-Fi-enabled appliances).
June 15, 2026
The Government of British Columbia has appointed Matthew Stacey and Jason LeBlond to provincial courts in Port Coquitlam and Prince George, respectively. The appointments will be effective as of July 13, 2026.
June 15, 2026
Law360 Canada is seeking participants for an anonymous survey on career and life satisfaction in the legal profession.
June 15, 2026
From Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office comes the announcement that Daniel Boone has been appointed the new chief justice for Newfoundland and Labrador. Justice Boone, who is a judge of the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal, will replace former justice Deborah E. Fry, who retired on Feb. 12, 2026.