Recently, I sat in on a well-attended speaker event at Cassels Brock. The first speaker at the event was Erich C. Carey, Vice President and Senior Counsel of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), which is the trade association that represents American music publishers and their songwriting partners. The NMPA often advocates for music publishers […]
The audio-recording of IP Osgoode's Bracing for Impact: The AI Challenge (Part II: Data, Policy & Innovation) conference is now available on the Bracing for Impact conference series website. Click here to access the conference proceedings. A big thank you to all the conference speakers and participants for helping us make the conference a great […]
Canadians have privacy rights associated with their personal information. This even applies when one’s personal information is held by someone else – like with hospital medical records. Patient ownership of personal data was illustrated in the 1992 Supreme Court of Canada (‘SCC’) decision, McInerney v. MacDonald, where the Court verified that despite the physician having […]
On April 2, a team of York University researchers led by psychology Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell, associate vice-president research and the director of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt (O.U.C.H.) Lab, was awarded a $1.5-million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, and the Natural Sciences & […]