Monday’s Mix

Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award­-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible.

This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. À bon droit 2. Susannah Tredwell on Slaw 3. John Willinsky 4. Civil Resolution Tribunal blog 5. Eloise Gratton

À bon droit
Il n’est pas possible de suspendre un délai de déchéance

Susannah Tredwell on Slaw
Check the Receiver’s Website if You’re Looking for Bankruptcy Documents

If you’re looking for court documents related to a Canadian insolvency proceeding and you know who the receiver or monitor is, check their website. Receivers often make the documents related to the proceeding publicly available on their website. …

John Willinsky
Letting Our Research Run With AI Content

This is a case of not closing the barn door after the horse is out, to use a pre-twentieth-century expression for a twenty-first-century issue. But, more precisely, I want to argue for propping the barn door open to enable the rest of the horses to run free after a good number have been questionably sold off. Let me explain. Think of those sold-off horses as the research studies that at least three major research publishers – Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and Oxford University Press with more deals pending – have rented out to AI giants, such as Microsoft, for the purposes of training Large Language Models (LLMs). …

Civil Resolution Tribunal blog
Participant Survey – May 2025

The Civil Resolution Tribunal anonymously surveys people who have gone through the tribunal process. We use this feedback to improve the way we serve the public. We report the results every month on this blog. We had 37 responses to our participant survey in May 2025. We’re pleased to report that participant satisfaction remains strong in all areas except timely resolution. We’re taking measures to address a high volume of claims and improve timeliness in all areas of the dispute resolution process. …

Eloise Gratton
Les exigences du Québec en matière d’anonymisation un an plus tard : leçons et questions en suspens pour les entreprises

Entré en vigueur le 30 mai 2024[1], le Règlement sur l’anonymisation des renseignements personnels [PDF] du Québec (le Règlement sur l’anonymisation) prévoit des exigences particulières pour l’anonymisation des renseignements personnels en vertu de la Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels dans le secteur privé (la Loi sur le privé ou la Loi)[2]. Près d’un an plus tard, demeurent en suspens des questions clés …

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