Pulse
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February 13, 2025
Reflections on a setback | David Peters
Some soul searching was in order. I was clearly not excelling in my career, but I didn’t know why. I had the education and background to succeed, but things weren’t clicking. I knew the reason may be linked to viewing my job only as a means to an end — saving enough to retire — instead of as a vocation, an end in itself, as a meaningful part of life to be enjoyed not hurried through. In short, something to be passionate about. As I reflected upon the role I played in my dilemma, I knew I must change. I like to read and learn, so I sought answers in books. Maybe, after all, I would find something useful. I did.
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February 12, 2025
Michael McDonald receives Indigenous Business Lifetime Achievement Award
The Canadian Council for Indigenous Business (CCIB) has announced Michael McDonald as the 2025 Indigenous Business Lifetime Achievement award recipient, in recognition of his contributions over the last 35 years in Indigenous rights and business law.
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February 12, 2025
Blaney McMurtry welcomes new associate
Blaney McMurtry LLP has announced that Zarin Zahra is now an associate in the firm’s Health Law group. Zarin’s health law practice involves the defence of health professionals in regulatory and discipline matters before their respective College, including complaints, investigations, and registration issues.
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February 12, 2025
What you should know about severance package anti-rehire agreements
Employees faced with signing an anti-rehire agreement in a severance package should first understand all their legal options.
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February 12, 2025
The history of U.S.-Canada trade: A tangled tale | Hodine Williams
Let’s make something clear. From my last article you will by now appreciate that tariffs placed on Canadian goods doesn’t affect the cost of producing Canadian goods or local prices. Canada doesn’t pay the tariffs. Instead, it is paid by persons importing the goods and generally the end users in the United States. The effect is that it makes Canadian good more expensive to Americans and in theory should lower the demand for Canadian goods.
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February 11, 2025
Canada signs on to legally binding European convention governing AI development
Canada has joined the European Union and 11 other countries in signing the first legally binding international agreement aimed at ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) systems respect human rights, democratic values and the rule of law throughout their life cycle.
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February 11, 2025
Landmark U.S. copyright decision and its implications for AI and canadian copyright law
The legal profession has entered a new frontier in the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law. On Feb. 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware issued a landmark decision in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v Ross Intelligence Inc, No 1:20-cv-613-SB, ruling in favour of Thomson Reuters in the first major fair use copyright case involving AI. The decision, which found that ROSS Intelligence unlawfully used Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw headnotes to train its legal AI research tool, raises profound questions about the future of AI training, data access, and copyright law.
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February 11, 2025
Koskie Minsky LLP expands with addition of senior litigator
Koskie Minsky LLP announced that senior litigator Robert Drake has joined the firm as part of the ongoing expansion of its commercial litigation practice.
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February 11, 2025
Pallett Valo grows its employment and labour practice
Pallett Valo LLP welcomes Zoya Alam who joined the firm’s Employment and Labour practice on February 10, 2025.
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February 10, 2025
C.J. Wagner says top court ‘exploring’ provision of mediation in cases where leave to appeal denied
Lawyers say they want to know specifics about the out-of-the-blue disclosure from Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner that he has asked his staff to “explore the possibility” of the top court providing “mediation” for litigants in cases where the apex court denies leave to appeal, and his suggestion that family law cases might lend themselves to a potential mediation initiative.