October 14, 2025
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.
October 09, 2025
The federal government has removed about half of its controversial 140-page omnibus “strong borders” bill (C-2) and inserted excised measures into a newly introduced 70-page “immigration and borders” bill (C-12), which proposes many of the same immigration changes that critics had called on Ottawa to scrap.
October 08, 2025
Woods has added Alexandre Gélinas as a lawyer and its director of eDiscovery.
October 08, 2025
This is the third article in a series building on my earlier discussion of AI hallucinations in the legal context and their prevalence.
October 07, 2025
Manitoba has introduced legislation to enshrine the current registered-owner car insurance pricing model in law, ensuring Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) continues to use it despite a regulatory order calling for a switch to a primary-driver model.
October 07, 2025
The B.C. government is bringing in higher compensation and updated privacy protections for people who have had their intimate images shared online without their consent.
October 07, 2025
When it comes to legal research and the use of generative AI, the amount of false information being generated is alarming. However, the data varies depending on the study, the AI tools analyzed and how AI hallucinations manifest.
October 07, 2025
In a cautionary case for litigation lawyers who use generative artificial intelligence (AI) for court submissions, a Federal Court associate judge recently hit an immigration lawyer with personal costs for submitting two defective AI-generated precedents and for breaching the Federal Court’s requirement to disclose any generative AI use in court filings.
October 03, 2025
Canada hosted the G7 Competition Authorities and Policymakers’ Summit in Ottawa, which concluded Oct. 2, with discussions on digital competition, with a particular focus on algorithmic pricing and its impacts on competition, markets and the economy.
October 03, 2025
The legal classification of crypto assets in securities law has been brought into question following a ruling by Quebec’s Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal. The tribunal held that the nature of a crypto and its potential classification as an investment contract may vary depending on the “economic reality” surrounding each transaction.