Neurodiversity Celebration Week - Working With ADHD (Podcast)

Toronto-based generative AI company Cohere has gone from being a largely unknown Canadian startup a few years ago to grabbing headlines in the Wall Street Journal, the New York...

On May 13, 2021, the Minister of Justice and Minister Responsible for the French Language, Simon Jolin-Barrette, tabled Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec ("Bill 96").

In mid-sized and large law firms, revenue leakage is a growing concern. On average, lawyers bill just 2.9 hours per day, and only 31% of their work time translates into collected revenue (Clio, 2024).

Blakes regularly assists various mining clients on transactions involving many mineral and land tenures.

Welcome to the next video in our Legal Steps to Startups Video Series – 3 Things You Need to Know About Research Agreements...

Presentation breakdown - introductions and objectives, project management fundamentals, framework for legal project management...

A contract needs to move today. A regulatory document changes at the last minute. A bilingual colleague gets pulled in to review terminology. Another request lands before the first one is finished.

Efficiency has become one of the defining priorities for legal teams. The 2026 ACC Chief Legal Officers Survey found that 53% of CLOs rank operational efficiency among their top three strategic initiatives for the next 12 months, ahead of regulatory compliance and technology implementation.

Bennett Jones is thrilled to celebrate a major milestone in its ongoing journey of growth and partnership with clients—the 10th anniversary of the firm's Vancouver office.

Growing up, becoming a lawyer was not my dream. There are no lawyers in my family, and I didn't know any personally.

Health Canada issued revised guidance on notifying Health Canada of foreign actions, effective October 1, 2026. The revised guidance clarifies the requirements to notify Health Canada of certain foreign regulatory actions specified in subsection C.01.050(2) of the Food and Drug Regulations in the specified foreign jurisdictions, which involve a serious risk of injury to human health and are relevant to the safety of the drug.

COLD-FX is a top-selling natural health product in Canada, with sales topping nearly $120-million as recently as 2011, according to a November 15, 2015 Globe and Mail article, "Why COLD-FX is too good to be true".

On December 20, 2023, the Federal Court issued a Notice to the Parties and the Profession regarding the use of artificial intelligence in court proceedings. In line with several other provincial

The Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Sector Task Force has released its final report addressing Canada's challenges in medication access, regulatory processes, and life sciences competitiveness. The report examines structural issues including lengthy reimbursement pathways, underperforming clinical trial environments, and erosion of domestic investment, while proposing 39 recommendation areas to strengthen Canada's health sovereignty and industrial strategy.

Health Canada is not currently meeting its performance standards for the review of some generic drug submissions. On September 1, 2026, Health Canada launched a new webpage, Improving how we review generic drugs, and released three notices on proposed actions to address the backlog of generic drug submissions under review.

For a Canadian patent application to be examined, an applicant must file a request for examination with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). In most cases, the order in which applications are examined is based on the order that the requests for examination are received. An applicant may be able to accelerate examination of their patent application through several existing mechanisms, including advancing examination via special order, accelerating examination of applications related to green technology, and the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH).

The Board will hold a public hearing (on a date to be determined no later than February 27, 2019) to determine whether Horizon Therapeutics Canada is selling ...

As we previously reported, Health Canada consulted on the framework for clinical trials, including on the new Clinical Trials Regulations and draft and updated guidance documents. Health Canada has now published a What we heard overview of the results of the consultation.

On February 15, 2017, the European Parliament voted to approve the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

September 21, 2026, marked the ninth anniversary of the significant amendments to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations (Regulations).