Information Technology
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February 21, 2025
Feds kick off information-sharing ‘partnership’ between RCMP, big banks aimed at money laundering
Ottawa has launched an initiative this week that the federal government says will “support the permissible sharing of money laundering and organized crime intelligence between law enforcement and Canada’s big banks.”
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February 20, 2025
CRTC launches consultation on Canadian content for audio services
Canada’s broadcast and telecom regulator has announced the launch of a public consultation on the definition of Canadian content for audio services. In a Feb. 20 news release, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said the consultation, which will continue until April 7, is part of its ongoing effort to modernize the Broadcasting Act by ensuring that online streaming services “make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content.”
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February 18, 2025
Securities regulators launch ‘collaboratory’ to explore investment data portability
Securities regulators in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are calling on industry stakeholders to join discussions and test innovative tools and strategies aimed at enhancing the portability of client data within the investment market.
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February 18, 2025
Duty to give AI reasons: Explainability at work
Procedural fairness is the cornerstone of any legitimate legal system. It ensures that legal proceedings are conducted with transparency, equity and respect for the rule of law. In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integrated into judicial and administrative decision-making, two principles are emerging as non-negotiable requirements of procedural fairness: explainability, and the “human-in-the-loop” (HITL) principle.
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February 14, 2025
Feds launch 2025 pre-budget consultations amid tariff uncertainty
The federal government has launched pre-budget consultations amid the looming threat of the U.S. potentially imposing tariffs on Canadian imports.
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February 14, 2025
Civil liberties groups say police use of facial recognition technology ‘demands critical scrutiny’
A coalition of civil liberties organizations from around the globe has developed a series of minimum principles they say law enforcement should follow when using facial recognition technology.
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February 13, 2025
CBA urges new funding as Federal Court’s massive budget shortfall threatens drastic service cuts
The Liberal government’s underfunding of the Federal Court could “drastically” reduce service to litigants, its chief justice warns, spurring the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) to call for urgent “off-cycle” federal funding to address the national trial court’s chronic multi-million-dollar budgetary shortfalls.
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February 12, 2025
Ontario joins settlement requiring GS Partners to provide refunds to digital asset investors
Ontario’s securities regulator has joined a multi-jurisdictional settlement requiring GS Partners and its affiliates to refund all money and cryptocurrency deposited by investors after allegedly offering illegal digital asset investments tied to blockchain technology, gold, and metaverse projects.
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February 12, 2025
Medical device industry seeks tariffs exemption due to potential impact on healthcare, patients
Medtech Canada, the national association representing the medical device industry in Canada, is calling on all jurisdictions in Canada to ensure that medical devices are excluded from any retaliatory tariffs or sanctions in response to potential U.S. tariffs.
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February 12, 2025
Feds release report on stakeholder concerns regarding copyright and generative AI policies
A federal government report on how copyright should be protected from potential threats posed by generative AI (artificial intelligence) reveals sharply divided views among industry stakeholders.