Pulse
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March 16, 2026
McLennan Ross adds 3 partners to Calgary office
McLennan Ross has welcomed Tanya Frizzell, Marc Matras and Peter Morrison as partners in its Calgary office.
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March 16, 2026
Nova Scotia appoints 3 new human rights commissioners
Three Nova Scotians, including two lawyers, have been appointed to two-year terms with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, the province has announced.
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March 16, 2026
Experts urge caution, ‘slow and steady’ approach, on AI use in the public sector
A Canadian-led group of legal and technological experts has issued a blueprint for the successful integration of artificial intelligence into public sector programs, saying government should take the time when developing an AI plan because the benefits expected from new technologies will only materialize if pragmatic goals are set and there is buy-in from public servants.
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March 16, 2026
Expert panel discusses AI’s impact on legal industry, access to justice
In honour of International Women’s Day, tech incubator the Legal Innovation Zone brought together industry experts to discuss the impact of AI in reshaping the legal landscape, improving access to justice and allowing startups to streamline their services.
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March 16, 2026
Supreme Court of Canada’s surreal reasoning in Case and Loyer
When a person tells you, “I had a dream last night,” most people understand exactly what that means. The speaker is about to recount the swirl of mental imagery, sounds and emotions experienced during sleep. The story of missing a train, falling from the sky or walking into a classroom naked is not understood as a report of reality but as an account of imagination. Dreams are, almost by definition, the mind untethered from the ordinary constraints of perception and memory. The Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí described dreams as “hand-painted dream photographs.”
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March 16, 2026
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bot
Over the past several decades, law became intertwined with numerous technologies that we simply incorporated into our workflow. We anticipate more creative destruction with generative AI, but with AI, we look into the mirror and sense the mirror looks back. Something more seems to exist than just the simple context window interface, and we tend to anthropomorphize. If all Roomba owners put googly eyes on their machine, most would believe the little guy was truly alive.
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March 13, 2026
Feds reboot new police powers, obligations to give police & CSIS ‘lawful access’ to digital data
Following public outcry and stiff political opposition to its sweeping “strong borders” omnibus bill (Bill C-2), the minority Liberal government has migrated the expanded “lawful access” powers and new obligations for electronic service providers to assist police and CSIS investigators from C-2 into standalone legislation (Bill C-22).
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March 13, 2026
RSS welcomes Emily Dikranian to insurance law team
Emily Dikranian has joined Robinson Sheppard Shapiro LLP’s (RSS) insurance law group in Montreal.
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March 13, 2026
The modern bill of attainder: Why women still pay a ‘proxy tax’
On International Women’s Day, you likely saw the pink-themed infographics and corporate “empowerment” lunches. But past the glossy surface, the actual gears of our society reveal something much older and darker: a modern version of collective punishment that falls almost exclusively on women.
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March 12, 2026
Peter Danner joins McCarthy Tétrault’s Calgary office as partner
McCarthy Tétrault has added Peter Danner as a partner in its M&A group in Calgary.