On May 31, 2025, the Alberta Security Management for Critical Infrastructure Regulation (the Regulation) will come into force and is expected to alter existing security requirements for critical resource infrastructure in...more
On December 12, 2024, the Canadian Trademarks Opposition Board (TMOB) announced plans to initiate a pilot project in January 2025 whereby the Registrar of Trademarks will proactively issue a limited number of section 45...more
On December 5, 2024, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published CSA Staff Notice and Consultation 11-348: Applicability of Canadian Securities Laws and the use of Artificial Intelligence Systems in Capital Markets...more
On November 6, 2024, the Alberta government introduced Bill C-33 and Bill C-34 which aim to replace the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act with: (1) the Protection of Privacy Act; and (2) the Access to...more
The review of Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) currently underway by the Alberta Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship (the Committee) continues, with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently...more
Approximately 8,000 delegates (including energy executives, government officials and Indigenous leaders from Canada and around the world) attended the third annual Canadian Hydrogen Convention (CHC) which ran April 23 to 25...more
On June 15, 2023, the Government of British Columbia announced that BC Hydro would be moving forward with a call for new sources (the Call to Power) of 100 percent clean, renewable emission-free electricity from large-scale...more
On September 26, 2023, the House of Common's Standing Committee on Industry and Technology (the Standing Committee) embarked on a comprehensive examination of Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act. If passed, this...more
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced that the regulatory authorities of each jurisdiction in Canada, except for British Columbia, have adopted Multilateral Instrument 93-101, entitled Derivatives—Business...more
The Canadian government continues to take note and react to the widespread use of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI is a type of AI that generates output that can include text, images or other materials,...more
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the preparation of materials filed with the courts has been the subject of recent practice directions, with certain Canadian courts requiring that any reliance on AI by a litigant...more