June 19, 2026
James Oliver has joined Wildeboer Dellelce as an associate in its banking and financial services team in Toronto.
June 19, 2026
Mathews Dinsdale has added Zoe Aranha as an associate in its Toronto office.
June 19, 2026
I articled for the now defunct law firm of Goodman and Carr. It was a well-regarded firm in its day. Wolfe Goodman was a senior partner and a leading tax lawyer of his era. In my tax rotation, I spent considerable time with him. He made tax sound so interesting that there was even a brief moment in time that I thought I wanted to be a tax lawyer.
June 19, 2026
The Office of the Procurement Ombud (OPO) has concluded its third Procurement Solutions Forum. The forum included discussions with senior procurement leaders and federal government stakeholders on developing a “harmonized set of federal procurement rules,” which was one of the OPO’s five key recommendations to address “long-standing federal procurement issues” in its most recent report.
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 19, 2026
Appeal by Resler from a judgment of the Alberta Court of Appeal which reinstated Anglin’s claim in part. Anglin was a Member of the Legislative Assembly who had been unsuccessful in his 2015 re-election bid.
June 19, 2026
Appeal by the appellants Wright and Fitzpatrick against their convictions. Two men went to Hall’s home. One of them shot Hall multiple times, killing him. Hall’s mother, CH, witnessed the shooting. Both appellants were charged with first degree murder. The Crown alleged that the appellant Wright was the shooter, and that the appellant Fitzpatrick accompanied him as an accomplice.
June 18, 2026
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has ruled that an electric scooter qualifies as an “automobile” under the province’s Insurance Act, excluding a rider injured in a collision with a minivan from accident benefits under the vehicle’s insurance policy.
June 18, 2026
Don MacKinnon has joined Miller Thomson as a partner in its real estate transactions and leasing group in Vancouver.
June 18, 2026
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree has appointed Valerie Phillips as interim correctional investigator of Canada, effective June 18, 2026.