October 15, 2026
McCarthy Tétrault has welcomed Brandon Wiener and Milan Vukovic as partners in its national tax group in Toronto.
October 15, 2026
Miller Thomson LLP has announced its acquisition of Mogan Daniels Slager LLP (MDS), a Vancouver-based boutique law firm focused on private company mergers and acquisitions and private equity. MDS’s 11 lawyers are expected to join Miller Thomson in early November.
October 15, 2026
Kelly Kim has joined Lenczner Slaght as counsel, adding to the firm’s health law practice.
October 15, 2026
Alberta’s top court has once again ruled against the federal government’s legislation for reviewing natural resource projects, saying amendments it made after parts of the law were struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada still do not pass constitutional muster.
October 15, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed Google’s challenge to a discovery ruling in proceedings brought by the Competition Bureau over its alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, emphasizing that relevance alone does not justify disclosure.
October 15, 2026
Imagine a Canadian bank restoring AI-assisted customer service after its technology provider suffers an outage. Customers can use the service again, but a disputed transaction remains unexplained. The provider holds the incident logs, the bank has only the final output, and their contract says little about access during a disagreement. Operational recovery has succeeded. Establishing what happened, and who should bear the loss, may take considerably longer.
October 15, 2026
British Columbians are set to vote for their next provincial government on Oct. 24, following Premier David Eby’s snap election.
October 15, 2026
A hydroelectric power plant needed refurbishment. The owner initiated a refurbishment project of the butterfly valves and winches for its hydroelectric power units and entered into an agreement with the plaintiff for the refurbishment of the first two hydroelectric power units of the plant, known as Units 1 and 2. The refurbishment work covered by the agreement included the valves and winches for Units 1 and 2, sometimes referred to as “pilot projects.”
October 15, 2026
The Alberta Court of Appeal has partially allowed Christopher John Barron’s sentence appeal, reducing his global sentence after finding that the sentencing judge had punished him twice for the same conduct (R. v. Barron, 2026 ABCA 270).
October 15, 2026
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne has announced that he has closed an investigation into WestJet’s security measures that was initiated after a cyberattack, finding the company met the commitments it made to his office (OPC) to enhance safeguards.