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Employment and Social Development Canada has released guidance on new employee training requirements for digital accessibility under the Accessible Canada Act. Organizations must identify employees involved in developing, maintaining, or purchasing digital technologies and ensure they receive training on accessibility fundamentals by December 2027.

When an employee turns to the internet to engage in blogging and the subject matter of the blog is the workplace and co-workers, the content of the blog can undermine the employment relationship and lead to a termination of employment for just cause.

Information found on issuer websites is "written disclosure" to which the disclosure requirements of NI 43-101 apply.

Cyber risk management is an increasingly important challenge for organizations of all kinds. The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, the national self-regulatory organization that oversees investment dealers and their trading activity in Canadian markets, has published detailed guidance to help investment dealer firms manage cybersecurity risks.

The Canadian Payments Association (the "CPA") recently issued a 4 part article series on the security implications of image-based cheque clearing, in particular relating to duplicate items.

Canada will begin accepting applications for its new Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) program on August 1, 2015.

On May 15, 2016, the Canadian Government will be implementing a new entry requirement for prospective visitors flying to Canada from visa-exempt countries.

On June 13, 2018, the National Assembly of Quebec adopted an Act mainly to improve the regulation of the financial sector, the protection of deposits of money and the operation of financial institutions ("Bill 141").

Insurers and other insurance professionals have traditionally been well positioned to drive improvements in risk management processes.

On November 24, 2011, the Federal Court of Appeal issued its decision in Canada (Attorney General) v. Amazon.com, Inc. (2011 FCA 338) (Amazon).

A fundamental change in Canada, effective June 10, will restrict the accessibility of publicly available information about registrants of .ca domain names.

Google has been ordered to de-index a website selling goods that were the subject of intellectual property (IP) infringement claims.

Domain names in the new extensions .sucks, .adult and .porn are now available for registration or are launching soon.

Google announced on April 27, 2015 a new program for patent owners to sell their patents to the ubiquitous search engine giant.

In Canada, there have been only a few Canadian cases dealing with use of competitors' trademarks in search engine optimization (SEO), for example as keywords and metatags.

Since the lower court had jurisdiction over Google in this case, the Court of Appeal held that there was no bar to granting an injunction on the basis that the court's order may impact activities in other jurisdictions.

At long last, amendments to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) have come into force, providing licensees of intellectual property (IP) with some additional level of protection.

A recent decision of the Federal Court of Canada in a motion brought by Voltage Pictures LLC in a copyright infringement case provides an interesting insight into the way in which the Court will balance privacy rights, on the one hand, and the rights of copyright holders on the other hand.