Other Areas of Practice
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November 05, 2025
Regulatory bodies should keep to their lane
Regulatory bodies exist to serve the public interest by enforcing laws, upholding professional standards and ensuring fair processes within the sectors they oversee. Their legitimacy rests not on popularity or political influence but on trust, neutrality and the perception of impartiality. When regulators take public positions on political issues, they risk undermining these foundations.
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November 03, 2025
Privacy commissioners join global sweep on children’s data protection
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and its provincial counterparts have joined the 2025 Global Privacy Enforcement Network privacy sweep, in which more than 30 data protection and privacy authorities globally will examine websites and mobile applications commonly used by children.
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November 03, 2025
G7 creates roadmap for critical minerals standards-based markets
Canada has announced the Critical Minerals Action Plan, a roadmap to advance standards-based markets for critical minerals. The development of the plan was first discussed at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta.
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November 03, 2025
Taking back the law society in 2027
The Law Society of Ontario’s self-governance was not taken from us in a single stroke; it has been surrendered gradually through bureaucracy, complacency and the slow drift of professional disengagement. Once, the law society was the instrument of a self-confident profession. Today, it too often serves the comfort of its own administration. The danger is not that government will one day revoke self-regulation, but that we will continue to give it away, piece by piece, without even noticing.
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October 31, 2025
The Friday Brief: Editor-In-Chief’s must-read items from this week
Here are my picks for the top stories we published this week.
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October 31, 2025
Court defers issues to arbitration in police workplace harassment class action
In a proposed class action alleging systemic gender discrimination by municipal police forces, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has ruled that claims by current Surrey, B.C., employees must proceed through arbitration.
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October 30, 2025
Court denies certification of proposed Facebook data breach class action
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has denied the certification of a proposed class action alleging data breaches by Facebook due to an unworkable class definition.
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October 29, 2025
Lawyer hails Ontario decision on school advisory councils as ‘enormously influential’
An Ontario court has ruled that the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) exceeded its authority when it disbanded a parental advisory council at an elementary school and called new elections.
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October 29, 2025
Court certifies issues in proposed beef price-fixing class action
The British Columbia Supreme Court has found issues certifiable in a proposed class action alleging that meatpacking companies conspired to fix prices and limit beef supply, resulting in higher prices for consumers.
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October 28, 2025
CJ Crampton says Federal Court ‘won’t hesitate’ to impose costs on lawyers for undisclosed GenAI use
Counsel who “thumb their noses” at the Federal Court’s requirement to disclose any and all generative AI they used to create court filings will find that the national trial court “won’t hesitate” to ding them with personal costs or initiate contempt proceedings, warns Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton.