Natural Resources
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July 16, 2025
Competition Bureau, Schlumberger reach agreement on competition concerns
The Competition Bureau and oilfield services company Schlumberger Ltd. (Schlumberger) have reached a consent agreement to address “competition concerns” related to the proposed acquisition of ChampionX Corp. (ChampionX).
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July 16, 2025
Prepare for change: The plain language legal writing standard is coming
What lawyer has not heard that legal writing should be clear and concise? Everyone wants legal documents to be straightforward, client-oriented and “crisp.” Yet, cryptic memoranda, wordy submissions, legalese-filled judgments and insurmountable walls of text in contracts and policies remain common. Even with clarity in mind, writing clearly is hard without knowing the rules to guide the process.
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July 14, 2025
Federal Court judge strikes SRL’s submission in employment dispute over AI hallucination citation
In another sign of AI’s growing impact on the law, the Federal Court has ordered that a self-represented respondent’s motion record be removed from a court file because it relied in part on a non-existent court decision hallucinated by an artificial intelligence (AI) research tool.
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July 14, 2025
The disadvantages of common law precedent
The Canadian common law system has its pros and cons. On the one hand, it provides for a certain level of consistency and predictability within an area of law by having judges rely on past precedent rulings to guide future awards. On the other hand, this consistency promotes a certain bias that takes a long time to review and change, which ironically creates inconsistencies across other legal frameworks.
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July 11, 2025
FINTRAC flags rising use of dual-use goods, cryptocurrencies in weapons proliferation
Canada’s financial intelligence unit, FINTRAC, is warning that foreign actors are increasingly targeting Canadian dual-use goods and turning to cryptocurrencies in efforts to acquire resources and information to build weapons of mass destruction and evade counter-proliferation controls.
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July 11, 2025
Trade tribunal, CBSA announce developments in steel product dumping investigations
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) has determined that the dumping of steel strapping from China, South Korea, Türkiye and Vietnam, and the subsidizing of steel strapping from China, are threatening to cause injury to the domestic industry.
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July 11, 2025
Ottawa extends EI relief as 35% U.S. tariff threat looms over trade talks
The federal government has extended temporary measures that make it easier for Canadians to qualify for employment insurance (EI) as the country faces a potential hike in U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports to 35 per cent if the two countries don’t reach a new trade agreement by Aug. 1.
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July 11, 2025
Chris Zawadzki rejoins McCarthy Tétrault as partner
McCarthy Tétrault has welcomed Chris Zawadzki back to the firm as a partner in its business law group.
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July 10, 2025
Business Council of Canada makes recommendations for resource export
The Business Council of Canada has released a new report outlining what it describes as “bold” recommendations on exporting resources to drive economic growth, energy security and innovation.
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July 10, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal upholds dismissal of group’s petition to protect birds, stop old-growth logging
An environmental group has lost its legal bid to protect a threatened seabird’s nesting areas and block old-growth logging in a portion of southwestern Vancouver Island.