June 24, 2026
When we picture gig work, we think of a rideshare app or a food courier weaving through downtown traffic on a wobbly bike. That image is already outdated. The fastest-growing frontier of contingent labour isn’t on the road — it’s in the boardroom of white-collar work.
June 23, 2026
The Ontario Securities Commission’s (OSC) proposal to make securities regulation machine-readable could require regulators to make interpretive choices that have traditionally been left to lawyers and market participants, according to Cassels Capital Markets Group partner Gregory Hogan.
June 23, 2026
The Federal Court has updated its intellectual property case and trial management guidelines, adding a new section on summary trials and judgements.
June 23, 2026
DLA Piper has appointed Alan Sarhan as managing partner of its Montreal office.
June 23, 2026
A 2025 call to the Ontario bar and a 2024 call to the B.C. bar, Madison Sutherland has joined Aird & Berlis as an associate in the firm’s capital markets group.
June 23, 2026
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs has publicly weighed in on a Supreme Court of Canada nomination, stating they “wholeheartedly endorse” Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal’s candidacy and are “confident he will bring fairness, wisdom and humility to Canada’s highest court.”
June 23, 2026
Notwithstanding the multitude of admonishments that courts in several jurisdictions have given to lawyers about the use of non-existent cases or hallucinated quotations from real cases to support their positions, lawyers continue to use generative artificial intelligence to conduct legal research without checking and verifying its output.
June 23, 2026
The federal government is inviting Canadians and partners in the heritage sector, including those involved in Canadian identity and culture, to take part in consultations on the future of official languages, particularly French.
June 23, 2026
On May 14, 2026, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a notice and request for comment in respect of a suite of proposed amendments to the issuer bid, take-over bid and beneficial ownership reporting regimes in Canada, marking the most significant set of changes in more than a decade.
June 22, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aiming to strengthen collaboration and economic opportunities in sectors including energy, critical minerals, nuclear technology, mobility, automotive and electric-vehicle manufacturing, aerospace, agri-food and life sciences.