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October 19, 2026
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), together with the privacy regulators in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta, recently released the findings of their joint investigation into OpenAI OpCo, LLC (OpenAI), the developer of ChatGPT.
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October 16, 2026
For lawyers, a photograph with a political figure can do two jobs. It can reassure a prospective client that a lawyer understands where decisions get made. It can also invite a question: Whose side is this firm on?
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October 16, 2026
Robins Appleby has welcomed Michael Robson to its litigation and dispute resolution group in Toronto.
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October 16, 2026
Marco Lippi has joined Pallett Valo’s business law practice in Mississauga, Ont.
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October 16, 2026
Lenczner Slaght has appointed Hannah Kingdom as manager of legal talent, student recruitment and development in Toronto.
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October 16, 2026
Does anybody think Humpty Dumpty took his fall off the wall lying down? No way. Mr. Dumpty actually commenced a lawsuit seeking compensation as a result of injuries suffered. I recently came across a copy of a little-known decision of the High Court of Wonderland, which I would like to share.
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October 16, 2026
The campaign for the upcoming Law Society of Alberta (LSA) bencher election begins in earnest Oct. 20 when candidates will be able to begin reaching out to their colleagues.
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October 16, 2026
Here is a version of a departure announcement that a lawyer recently posted on LinkedIn, which I have rewritten slightly to recast it as if he were getting divorced:
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October 15, 2026
McCarthy Tétrault has welcomed Brandon Wiener and Milan Vukovic as partners in its national tax group in Toronto.
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October 15, 2026
Miller Thomson LLP has announced its acquisition of Mogan Daniels Slager LLP (MDS), a Vancouver-based boutique law firm focused on private company mergers and acquisitions and private equity. MDS’s 11 lawyers are expected to join Miller Thomson in early November.
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October 15, 2026
Kelly Kim has joined Lenczner Slaght as counsel, adding to the firm’s health law practice.
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October 15, 2026
Imagine a Canadian bank restoring AI-assisted customer service after its technology provider suffers an outage. Customers can use the service again, but a disputed transaction remains unexplained. The provider holds the incident logs, the bank has only the final output, and their contract says little about access during a disagreement. Operational recovery has succeeded. Establishing what happened, and who should bear the loss, may take considerably longer.
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October 15, 2026
The Alberta Court of Appeal has partially allowed Christopher John Barron’s sentence appeal, reducing his global sentence after finding that the sentencing judge had punished him twice for the same conduct (R. v. Barron, 2026 ABCA 270).
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October 14, 2026
Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP (Alexander Holburn) has launched a family law group in Vancouver with the addition of partners Jane Reid and Rosemary Gallo.
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October 14, 2026
Laura Harrison has joined Aird & Berlis as an associate and member of the firm’s financial services group.
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October 14, 2026
Megan Pratt-Ahmad has joined Harper Grey as an associate in its health law and construction law groups.
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October 13, 2026
Only two women applied for the latest Supreme Court of Canada vacancy, filled by Manitoba’s Glenn Joyal, whose appointment last June restored a 5-4 male majority, ending the high court’s first female majority on the top bench.
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October 13, 2026
Dentons Canada has added a 10-lawyer employment and labour team in Toronto led by partners Richard J. Charney, John Mastoras and Daniel McDonald.
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October 13, 2026
DLA Piper has welcomed Toronto-based lawyer Lara Nathans as global co-head of its consumer goods, food and retail sector.
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October 09, 2026
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has announced the appointment of Justice Thomas Rothwell to the Court of Appeal of Alberta and Malcolm M. Lavoie to the Court of King’s Bench.
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October 09, 2026
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has announced the appointment of Paul J. Mongenais and Peter D. Ruby to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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October 09, 2026
For lawyers, some issues extend beyond protecting rights and freedoms. A core concern is the risk of letting a rigid rule determine an outcome before examining the matter’s substance.
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October 08, 2026
Under the rubric of supporting “economic growth and competitiveness,” the federal Liberal government says its newly introduced “red tape reduction” bill (S-7) will “reduce unnecessary regulatory burden under 31 individual pieces of legislation and their corresponding regulations administered by 11 federal departments and agencies.”
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October 08, 2026
British Columbia Chief Judge Melissa Gillespie has announced the appointment of Matthew Turnell, Manpreet Mand and David Jenkins as provincial court judges.
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October 08, 2026
Megan Walwyn has joined McEwan Partners as an associate in Vancouver.