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October 01, 2025
Sustainable popcorn under the spotlight
The popcorn industry, like many areas within the food sector, is increasingly coming under legal scrutiny for its sustainability practices. With evolving consumer assumptions and desires along with tightening governmental policies, businesses involved in everything from production to packaging of popcorn are facing new legal requirements and expectations. This piece explores the legal landscape as it relates to sustainability within the popcorn industry in Canada, highlighting key regulatory frameworks, environmental challenges and compliance strategies.
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September 30, 2025
AI, digital integration in small businesses could boost GDP by $12.8B: report
A new report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) has found that while 92 per cent of small businesses in Canada are using digital tools for their business, only 10 per cent have fully integrated them across operations.
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September 30, 2025
The importance of bar exams
The Law Society of Ontario is considering dumping the bar exams. The committee’s purported reasons for proposing this include the fact that those with Canadian law degrees have a much higher pass rate than international graduates, that the exam is stressful and that it requires quick recall of information. I think the opposite.
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September 26, 2025
Ontario law society makes moves on public transparency, trust
Increasing transparency and working toward restoring public trust were the orders of the day as benchers of the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) met for their most recent meeting.
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September 26, 2025
Ontario opening of the courts ceremony highlights digitization, reform of Rules of Civil Procedure
On Sept. 25, judges, attorneys general, leaders of law associations and others met for Ontario’s opening of the courts ceremony, discussing various strategies that have been and will be undertaken to improve access to justice. This included digitization and reformation of the Rules of Civil Procedure.
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September 25, 2025
SCC issues stay of destruction of 400 ostriches pending leave to appeal decision
The Supreme Court of Canada has stayed the cull of more than 400 ostriches on a B.C. farm that had been ordered depopulated after some were found to have the H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
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September 24, 2025
Class action on privacy concerns regarding doctor reviews on RateMDs dismissed
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal and set aside the certification of a class action in a case where a doctor brought up privacy concerns relating to reviews being published on the website RateMDs.
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September 23, 2025
B.C. law society approves 2026 fee hike, rebate pilot program
It was decision-making time on discipline and practice fees for the Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) at its most recent bencher meeting.
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September 23, 2025
View from inside prison: The struggle for mental health help
Prisons are supposedly about helping prisoners rehabilitate so they can re-enter society successfully. In fact, spending time in prison makes it a lot harder to live outside, not easier.
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September 19, 2025
The Friday Brief: Editor-In-Chief’s must-read items from the past two weeks
Here are my picks for the top stories we’ve published over the last two weeks.