Business
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January 28, 2025
Inquiry calls for new prohibitions, penalties against foreign interference in Canada’s democracy
The federal Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference has recommended new prohibitions, fines and stiffer administrative monetary penalties (AMPs), as well as other legislative changes, to strengthen Canada’s defences against foreign interference in the country’s democratic processes.
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January 28, 2025
CRA faces legal challenges over implementation of capital gains inclusion rate hike
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is facing two legal challenges over its decision to implement the government’s proposed hikes to the capital gains tax inclusion rate on the basis that the proposals have not been enacted into law and may not even be tabled before Parliament.
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January 28, 2025
Manitoba sending conservation officers to help secure U.S. border
Manitoba conservation officers are now lending a hand in tightening the province’s border with the United States.
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January 28, 2025
What OpenAI’s GDPR fine signals for Canadian organizations | Tara Sarvnaz Raissi
On Nov. 2, 2024, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, 15 million euros for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Garante found that OpenAI failed to report the breach of personal data, within its chatbot service, to the Garante and was non-compliant with GDPR’s breach notification requirements.
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January 28, 2025
Top 10 business decisions for 2024, part two
Here is the second part of Law360 Canada’s annual list of the Top 10 business decisions in Canada for the year just ended. This is a two-part series, which began with part one with our honourable mentions and the cases ranked 6-10. What follows are the Top 5 cases, in ascending order.
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January 27, 2025
Law societies provide helpful guidance on the client ID rules
All lawyers in Canada are required to verify the identity of their clients whenever the lawyer is involved in the receiving, paying or transferring of cash, currency, securities, negotiable instruments or other financial instruments. For lawyers outside of Quebec, the identity verification must be done using one of the following four methods:
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January 27, 2025
Competition Bureau: AI-based anti-competitive conduct may require changes to enforcement
Artificial intelligence (AI) could facilitate certain anti-competitive conduct such as AI-driven collusion that may require new or revised enforcement mechanisms, the Competition Bureau has stated in a report.
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January 27, 2025
Outgoing official languages watchdog cheers court wins, urges vigilance to protect language rights
In his swansong before ending his seven-year term this week, federal Commissioner of Official Languages Raymond Théberge celebrated his office’s litigation victories in support of language rights, while cautioning Canadians against complacency.
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January 27, 2025
Canada sanctions Belarusian regime supporters for ‘gross and systematic human rights violations’
Ottawa has announced new sanctions — immigration bans, estate freezes and related penalties — on 10 people and 12 entities who support the ongoing violations of human rights in Belarus by the authoritarian regime of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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January 27, 2025
New judge appointed to Tax Court
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani has announced that John A. Sorenson has been appointed as a judge of the Tax Court of Canada.