Business
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September 26, 2025
Canada welcomes World Trade Organization’s fisheries subsidies agreement
Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu has welcomed the coming into force of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies for sustainability.
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September 26, 2025
McMillan adds partner in Toronto
McMillan LLP has announced that Christie Gibson has joined the firm’s municipal, land use planning and development practice.
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September 26, 2025
Ontario opening of the courts ceremony highlights digitization, reform of Rules of Civil Procedure
On Sept. 25, judges, attorneys general, leaders of law associations and others met for Ontario’s opening of the courts ceremony, discussing various strategies that have been and will be undertaken to improve access to justice. This included digitization and reformation of the Rules of Civil Procedure.
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September 26, 2025
CIBC, Renaissance Mutual Funds reach $11M settlement in trailing commissions class action
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), CIBC Trust Corporation and Renaissance Mutual Funds have agreed to pay $11 million to settle a class action alleging that they improperly paid trailing commissions to discount brokers from mutual fund assets leading to diminished returns for investors.
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September 26, 2025
Landmark Canadian cryptocurrency platform takedown: A look at the other side of digital coin
The RCMP’s recent seizure of the controversial cryptocurrency exchange TradeOgre, alongside over $56 million in crypto assets, marks a watershed moment in Canadian digital finance regulation and risk management. As authorities pat themselves on the back for this law enforcement success story, the operation also sparks uncomfortable debate about due process, the collateral damage to non-criminal users and the regulatory minefield that risk managers in the digital asset sector must navigate.
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September 26, 2025
Arbitrator’s disclosure back in the spotlight with SCC’s dismissals in Aroma and Vento
The Supreme Court of Canada has recently issued its verdicts on two conflicting decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario regarding the setting aside of two international arbitration awards, on the grounds of arbitrators’ bias.
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September 26, 2025
Nearly $2 million awarded in landmark online defamation case
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice released its decision in Canadian Aids Treatment Information Exchange et al. v. Blackwell, 2025 ONSC 4678 on Aug. 19, 2025, granting one of the largest awards ever issued in a Canadian defamation lawsuit.
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September 25, 2025
Trade deal with Indonesia will reduce or remove tariffs on 95 per cent of exports, says Carney
Canada has signed a bilateral trade agreement with Indonesia that will lead to 95 per cent of Canadian exports to Indonesia having tariffs reduced or eliminated once the agreement is fully implemented.
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September 25, 2025
Canada Post ‘effectively insolvent,’ feds mandate transformation of corporation
The federal government has instructed Canada Post to begin a transformation, noting that the corporation is “facing an existential crisis” as it has “accumulated more than $5 billion in losses” since 2018.
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September 25, 2025
B.C. court narrows herbicide class action, strikes battery and general damages claims
The B.C. Court of Appeal has narrowed a class action alleging that exposure to paraquat in herbicides increased the risk of Parkinson’s, ruling exposure cannot ground a battery claim and that a common issue on general damages could not be addressed on a class-wide basis.