Business
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August 11, 2025
Responsible AI in practice: Leveraging ISO and NIST frameworks
The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) within organizations in Canada is bringing to light the need to balance AI’s innovative potential with stakeholder expectations for responsible AI use and data privacy. At the same time, with AI’s continued growth and use, government bodies, regulators and standards organizations are attempting to establish legislation and voluntary codes that assist organizations using and developing AI in implementing governance systems and practices.
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August 08, 2025
B.C. judge certifies Indigenous child welfare class action despite Federal Court of Appeal setback
The British Columbia Supreme Court has certified a class action on behalf of thousands of off-reserve Indigenous children and families affected by what plaintiffs call the “Millennium Scoop,” alleging the ongoing, widespread removal of Indigenous children from their families by the child welfare system.
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August 08, 2025
Feds launch consultation on Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act regulations
The federal government ammouced it has begun consultations with Canadian industry, businesses and labour representatives to develop regulations under the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act.
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August 08, 2025
Court quashes city council resolution regarding street for lack of reasons
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has quashed a council resolution regarding a strip of road that the appellant sought to get back from the City of Delta. It found the city’s decision to keep the strip was unreasonable due to a lack of reasons.
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August 08, 2025
Finance Department says Canada will soon lower price cap for Russian oil
The Carney federal government says it will further lower the price cap for seaborne Russian-origin crude oil from US$60 to US$47.60 per barrel, with the aim of restricting Russia’s war efforts against Ukraine.
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August 08, 2025
Federal judges seek $60K pay hike but Ottawa says no raise needed to attract senior bar to bench
Chief justices are pointing to newly disclosed data about private bar lawyers’ rising incomes and declining appointments to the bench to bolster the judiciary’s contention that inadequate judicial compensation and onerous job demands are deterring “outstanding” lawyers from seeking federal judicial appointments.
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August 08, 2025
New N.S. AI guidebook warns of over-reliance in legal practices
Nova Scotia’s law society is using a new guidebook to warn members against becoming over-reliant on artificial intelligence in their practices — and urging them to heed instances where lawyers ended up in hot water over its misuse.
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August 08, 2025
CORPORATIONS - Amalgamation - Oppression remedy
Appeal by the appellant from dismissal of his action alleging oppression under the Business Corporations Act, R.S.Y. 2002 c. 20 (BCA). The appellant brought an action against the respondents alleging oppression.
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August 08, 2025
Being smart is not what it’s cracked up to be
Parents teach their children about success by reference to how things were during their productive years. To my grandparents, success was a job in the front office at the factory, rather than on the production floor. My parents hoped that their children would become professionals. I wanted my children to achieve some work/life balance.
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August 08, 2025
CJC issues expression of concern over Federal Court judge’s failure to disclose workplace probe
The Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) has issued a public expression of concern regarding Federal Court Justice Negar Azmudeh for failing to disclose an ongoing workplace harassment investigation during her judicial application process.