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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.
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October 27, 2025
B.C. law society adopting new bar admission course
The Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) is making a major change to its bar admission program, deciding to phase out a course that has been in place for more than four decades.
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October 27, 2025
Canada to amend Labour Code, launch new tax credit and expand union training
Canada has announced new measures included in Budget 2025, including expanding the Union Training and Innovation Program, introducing a temporary five-year Personal Support Workers Tax Credit, amending the Canada Labour Code to restrict the use of non-compete agreements and investing $97 million over five years to create a Foreign Credential Recognition Action Fund.