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April 30, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) and associated algorithms increasingly underpin routine business functions and often form part of a company’s product or service offering. In June 2025, Microsoft found that 71 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) surveyed were actively using AI or generative AI for core operations; among digital-native firms, the rate reached 90 per cent. Behind the scenes, AI models are responsible for making material business decisions, running equipment and offering services to third parties — including health care decisions, dynamic pricing, forecasting, supply chain optimization, customer chats and routing, applicant screening, identity validation, fraud detection and marketing campaigns.
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April 29, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has granted a township’s motion for a stay of an order forcing it to issue a fill permit, ruling that denying the stay could render the municipality’s appeal moot.
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April 29, 2026
B.C.’s attorney general is calling on Ottawa to take immediate action to protect the public — and especially young people — from online harm. In a letter addressed to the federal ministers responsible for AI and Canadian Heritage, B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma says Ottawa should bring in online harms legislation that sets minimum safety standards for youth using the internet as soon as possible.
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April 29, 2026
On April 2, 2026, Bill 9, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec became law. While much of the public discussion has focused on the public sector implications, private sector employers should pay close attention: the legislation enacts a new Law promoting social cohesion and regulating accommodations for religious reasons (Loi favorisant le vivre-ensemble et encadrant les accommodements pour un motif religieux) that directly applies to them and fundamentally changes the rules governing religious accommodation in the workplace.
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April 29, 2026
Cyberattacks during M&A can quietly erode value, create regulatory exposure and derail integration. Here’s what Canadian buyers, investors and boards should demand from cyber and privacy due diligence.
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April 28, 2026
The Carney government says it plans to make it a criminal offence to operate a cryptocurrency automated teller machine (ATM) and that it will push ahead with controversial amendments to enable “law enforcement” to search and seize mail.
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April 28, 2026
In my last article, I wrote about visualization in law. But visualization is not limited to diagrams or tables. Text itself is visual, and its organization can improve reader engagement and comprehension. This is typography.
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April 28, 2026
Maintaining complete and accurate patient health records is a core responsibility of all regulated health professionals in Ontario. Beyond documenting what occurred during an appointment and supporting continuity of care, proper recordkeeping is both a legal and professional obligation. Failure to meet these standards can result in serious regulatory, employment and financial consequences.
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April 27, 2026
Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have been working on modernizing food regulation and have made significant changes throughout 2025 and early 2026. This article outlines key updates to food additive, enzyme and supplement approvals and ingredient and labelling requirements.
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April 24, 2026
The Federal Court has upheld a decision allowing a plaintiff to amend its pleading despite breaching a litigation undertaking, emphasizing that the remedy for such a breach is discretionary.
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April 24, 2026
The Ontario government has fast-tracked legislation through the provincial legislature that makes significant changes to the province’s freedom of information (FOI) laws, a move observers are calling “undemocratic” and dangerous.
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April 24, 2026
On April 2, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released a landmark ruling in Nuchatlaht v. British Columbia, 2026 BCCA 137. The court granted the Nuchatlaht Aboriginal title to the entirety of the area claimed in the case — approximately 210 square kilometres of Nootka Island off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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April 24, 2026
Requests for medical information often sit at the centre of workplace accommodation disputes. Employers need enough information to understand an employee’s limitations and determine whether accommodation is possible. At the same time, medical information is highly private, and arbitration boards are careful to ensure that requests do not go further than necessary.
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April 23, 2026
Organizations across Canada are increasingly turning to anonymization as a way to extract value from data while managing privacy risk. Done correctly, anonymization can place a dataset outside the reach of Canada’s private-sector privacy legislation, freeing organizations to use the data for analytics, product development and operational purposes without the obligations that would otherwise govern the handling of personal information.
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April 23, 2026
In corporate structures, the company is its own legal person, with its own assets, liabilities and rights of action. That separation is what gives shareholders the benefit of limited liability, but it also means they cannot simply step into the corporation’s shoes when something goes wrong.
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April 22, 2026
Ontario appellate courts continue to hold that civil conspiracy claims cannot be used to circumvent corporate separateness. In Cervantes v. Pizza Nova Take Out Ltd., 2026 ONSC 713 (Cervantes), the Ontario Divisional Court reaffirmed that an agreement is the core element of a civil conspiracy claim.
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April 21, 2026
British Columbia has announced it is opting into a temporary federal measure allowing rural employers to retain low-wage temporary foreign workers beyond the federal 10 per cent cap, according to a release issued April 20.
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April 21, 2026
As legal counsel for all types of nurses, including nurse practitioners, registered nurses and registered practical nurses, we are frequently retained to provide assistance in responding to complaints filed with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO). Although the regulatory framework governing complaint matters is complex, the following summarizes the core information that nurses should be aware of in order to navigate the process effectively.
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April 21, 2026
A lot has been written about the Project Freeway Inc. v. ABC Technologies Inc., 2025 ONCA 855 case since the Ontario Court of Appeal rendered its decision in December 2025 dismissing the appeal of Justice Jana Steele’s trial decision in the matter.
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April 20, 2026
The federal government has directed the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) to investigate whether a surge in imports of certain wood products is harming or threatening to harm domestic manufacturers.
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April 20, 2026
This month, the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) launched its Rule of Law campaign in which local lawyers host discussions in their communities to help the public better understand the rule of law and its everyday importance to democracy.
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April 20, 2026
The Ontario Court of Appeal has now made clear that income earned during the notice period will generally reduce wrongful dismissal damages, even where the replacement job is lower paying or lower ranking.
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April 20, 2026
In Tudor v. Accurate Screen Ltd., 2026 ABKB 237 (Justice Keith Yamauchi), the Court of King’s found an employer had just cause to dismiss an employee who made misrepresentations on his resumé.
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April 20, 2026
With AI, lawyers can turn to AI agents to answer questions, locate files, find facts (or make them up) and automate certain functions. AI chatbots appear analogous to intelligent articling students.
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April 17, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced the first ever Canada Investment Summit as part of a plan to catalyze $1 trillion in total investment over the next five years.