Business
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December 10, 2024
Yukon Court of Appeal upholds dismissal of application in dispute over inducing breach of contract
The Yukon Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of an application by a propane supplier accused of inducing a competitor’s customers to breach their contracts, rejecting arguments that the pleadings failed to disclose a reasonable claim.
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December 10, 2024
Canada sanctions Russian and Chinese officials, citing human rights violations
The federal government has announced additional sanctions against nine Russian officials and eight Chinese officials allegedly involved in human rights violations.
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December 10, 2024
Feds doubling loan limit to build secondary suites in homes, increasing 30-year amortizations
The federal government has announced that it will double the loan limit under the Canada Secondary Suite Loan Program to $80,000, launching the program in early 2025. This was said to “make it easier for homeowners to convert an unused basement into a rental apartment or a garage into a laneway home” to increase density in communities.
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December 09, 2024
Commons committee, privacy commissioner call for amendments to federal private-sector privacy law
The federal privacy commissioner has endorsed a call by a House of Commons committee to reform Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law to include data-minimization requirements, rules surrounding cross-border data transfers, and the power for the privacy commissioner to make binding orders and impose significant administrative monetary penalties.
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December 09, 2024
Health Canada releases new data on cannabis use, finds less reported illegal access
Health Canada has published the 2024 Canadian Cannabis Survey, finding that more people are obtaining cannabis legally and that there is less reported smoking of cannabis overall.
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December 09, 2024
Court grants injunction against CUPW blockade at Purolator facility amid Canada Post strike
The Ontario Superior Court has maintained the validity of an ex-parte injunction restraining Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) members from blocking access to and from a Purolator facility in relation to the ongoing labour dispute at Canada Post.
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December 09, 2024
Ontario Court of Appeal: Arbitrators are presumed to be impartial
“Arbitration is an important, statutorily sanctioned, mode of dispute resolution. Undergirding its acceptability is the core principle that an arbitrator must be impartial. An arbitrator must not actually be biased, nor can there be a reasonable apprehension that the arbitrator is biased.”
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December 09, 2024
Bill C-26: Passage of critical infrastructure cyber regime complicated by foreign interference
Bill C-26, An Act Respecting cybersecurity , has made ponderous progress through the legislature; having had its first reading in the House of Commons in June 2022, took over two years to reach first reading in the Senate. Along the way, it has been altered to address the newly topically concern of foreign interference in Canadian affairs, and its passage has been further delayed by a silly mistake.
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December 06, 2024
No Charter breach when police warrantlessly searched text messages in ‘exigent circumstances’: SCC
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed 6-3 an Ontario man’s appeal of his drug trafficking convictions, holding that his Charter rights were not breached because “exigent circumstances” justified police, without a warrant, using a cellphone they seized from a drug dealer to impersonate that dealer and continue his texting with the accused to arrange what police suspected to be a purchase of fentanyl-laced heroin.
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December 06, 2024
Sales of patented medicines in Canada soared to almost $20B in 2023, says review board
Buoyed by high prices, sales of patented medicines in Canada last year totalled almost $20 billion — representing 47.3 per cent of the country’s entire medicines market, according to the 2023 annual report of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB).