Resources, Articles, & Advocacy
Legislative Update | May 26, 2025
Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of May 19
Toronto Passes Controversial 'Bubble Zone' Protest Bylaw: Toronto councillors have passed a bylaw aimed at restricting protests around places of worship, daycares and schools in the city. The bylaw – slated to come into effect on July 2 – allows schools, childcare centres and places of worship to request the city restrict protest within a 50-metre radius around their properties.
Advocacy | May 16, 2025
Your OBA LegUp Policy and Legislative Update Week of May 12
Province Tables Tariff-Era Budget: The Ford government plans to run a substantial deficit of almost $15 billion and spend more than $230 billion this year. On Thursday, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy presented the government’s 2025 budget, a document dominated by the tariff response and how it will impact the economy.
Advocacy | May 16, 2025
OBA Update - Budget 2025
On Thursday, May 15, 2025, the government tabled A Plan to Protect Ontario, the 2025 provincial budget
Article | May 15, 2025
The Shift to a Softer Approach on AI Regulation
The AI Policy landscape is shifting in view of economic headwinds and changing policy priorities from the EU and the US. Safety, trust, and innovation hang in the balance.
Article | May 14, 2025
Get to Know Your Execs in Five Minutes (or Less)
In this ongoing series, we will profile each of the members of the OBA IT/ IP Law Section Executives to learn about them in five minutes or less. It’s five minutes or less because we know that a lot of you docket in six minute increments! This issue, meet Ayush Arora, newsletter editor for the Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law Section.
Article | May 12, 2025
AI Content Labels – Private Sector Policy and Canada
AI generated or made by human? What systems are in place to let consumers know whether social media content is made by a creator or Chat GPT? So far Meta has its only system in place, and Canada has a few suggestive sources.
Article | May 12, 2025
Shaping the Future: Canada’s Path to AI Governance
The article is about Canada’s upcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy from 2025 to 2027, which outlines how the federal government plans to adopt artificial intelligence to improve public service efficiency through ethical frameworks, governance, workforce development, and public engagement.
Article | May 12, 2025
Copyrighted Memes: The Risks in Crypto
Among the many risks of trading "meme coins" in the crypto market, one risk is often forgotten until it is too late: copyright law. This article explores the copyright law implications that both meme coin developers and traders face when profiting off another person’s original work, using real-world examples from the past year.
