Information Technology
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January 28, 2025
B.C. Securities Commission launches campaign to combat AI investment scams
In a sign of growing concern among securities regulators about artificial intelligence (AI) based investment scams, the B.C. Securities Commission (BCSC) has launched a campaign aimed at helping investors protect themselves.
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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 24, 2025
Exclusive: SCC’s Karakatsanis J. says job is ‘so extraordinary, it’s hard to think about doing anything else’
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Andromache Karakatsanis has seen many changes at the court since she was appointed in 2011 but its recent historic transformation into a fully bilingual female-majority court is “fantastic,” she says.
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January 23, 2025
FINTRAC operational alert targets money laundering related to trade in illegal synthetic opioids
In a joint effort with the U.S. and Mexico, Canada’s anti-money-laundering watchdog has published an operational alert aimed at helping businesses to identify and report financial transactions related to the laundering of proceeds from the importation, production and distribution of fentanyl and other illegal synthetic opioids.
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January 23, 2025
Report predicts generally positive outlook for Canadian private equity market in 2025
Technology is expected to be the hottest area for Canadian private equity (PE) investment in 2025 during a year of increased deal activity, according to an annual PE outlook report released Jan. 23 by Toronto-based Torys LLP.
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January 22, 2025
Outlook for Canadian M&A market remains positive despite tariff threat, says KPMG report
The threat of widespread U.S. tariffs could slow down merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in Canada during the first half of 2025, but structural changes in trade could spur cross-border deals later in the year, according to multinational consulting firm KPMG.
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January 20, 2025
Saskatchewan regulator lists upcoming events on estates, AI, family law
The Law Society of Saskatchewan has published a roundup of upcoming events — one being mediation training sessions for lawyers and another being the Canadian Bar Association Saskatchewan’s mid-winter conference.
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January 17, 2025
Proposed class action launched against Indigo Park for alleged false or misleading prices
Burnaby, B.C.-based Evolink Law has launched a proposed class action lawsuit against Indigo Park Canada Inc. alleging that the Montreal-based parking giant is unlawfully charging customers obligatory “junk fees” that make the represented price unattainable.
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January 17, 2025
CRTC mandates internet disruption discount among measures to improve service in Far North
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced new measures it is taking to make internet service in the Far North more affordable and reliable, including mandating an automatic reduction in bills after long service disruptions.
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January 16, 2025
Proposed U.S. tariffs could cost B.C. $69B in economic activity, 124,000 jobs, province estimates
The imposition of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s threatened 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports could cost British Columbia 124,000 jobs and $69 billion in economic activity between 2025 and 2028, according to a B.C. Ministry of Finance impact assessment.