Women professors are more likely than men to leave their jobs. And when they do, people often assume it’s because of difficulties juggling their professional and personal lives. “Much of the past literature on women academics—tenure-line professors in particular—talks about how one of the major barriers to success that may push them out of the workforce has to do with work–life balance, especially in terms of managing career and family,”…
On August 18, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) released its 2025–2026 Year in Review, covering the first year of work under the CSA’s 2025–2028 Business Plan. The review period runs broadly from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. During that period, the CSA released 54 publications spanning rule amendments, consultations, blanket orders, guidance, policy initiatives and market updates, and participated in more than 95 stakeholder engagements. The report groups…
On Aug. 18, 2026, the Honourable Marie-Christine Hivon of the Superior Court dismissed the class action brought against Société Telus Communications Inc. (Telus) in Bergeron v. Société Telus Communications Inc. The plaintiff argued that international roaming charges of $0.60 for receiving SMS messages while abroad were disproportionate to the value of the service and constituted consumer exploitation within the meaning of section 8 of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA). She…
Before Harsh Vardhan Goenka joined Kalpa Labs, he was at Rubrik Inc., where he helped build Rubrik Cloud Vault from its early days and rewrote the company's testing infrastructure so that test suites that took hours ran in minutes. He'd always gravitated toward small teams and hard problems — competitive programming took him to the ICPC World Finals, and engineering at scale brought him to Rubrik. But the pull toward…
This commentary was adapted from episode 243 of the Health & Veritas podcast. Subscribe for weekly doses of expert insight on health and the healthcare industry.We are taping this the week before an important election, the midterms of 2026. One of the common themes has been healthcare costs, and one of the most talked-about strategies is to introduce Medicare for All—the idea of covering all Americans through a single payer…
Quick Hits The EEOC voted to rescind its 2012 enforcement guidance related to using arrest and conviction records in employment decisions. The Commission stated that the agency voted 2-to-1 in favor of rescinding on October 28, 2026, and that the rescission is effective immediately. The 2012 guidance had indicated that employers’ use of information on arrest and conviction records could implicate their obligations under Title VII of the Civil Rights…
Shareholder disputes can destabilize a company. They often paralyze the decision-making process and impair governance. When shareholder disputes arise, the courts are often asked to intervene. While many parties turn to the oppression remedy under s. 227 of the Business Corporations Act (BCA), which was discussed in our December 2024 article on the oppression remedy, British Columbia courts have another powerful tool at their disposal: the “just and equitable” liquidation and…
Quick Hits President Trump signed Executive Order 14426, “Accelerating Access to Veterans’ Benefits and Employment Opportunities,” on September 8, 2026, to address the transfer of records between DOW and the VA. The executive order sets a series of deadlines for the DOW and the VA to modernize both the technology and the policies governing records sharing. The executive order also directs changes to help veterans move more quickly into employment…
The federal government recently introduced Bill C-41, the Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards Act. Through Bill C-41, the government proposes to permanently prohibit MAiD for those whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness, allow practitioners, in certain circumstances, to provide MAiD to those who have made advance requests for MAiD and update reporting requirements for practitioners. Background MAiD has been legal since 2016, and access was expanded in…
The most important task of humanity’s functioning is reproducing itself for the sake of development and evolution. But what if the development of people has come into collision with their reproduction, creating the risk of humanity losing the key elements of control over the world’s affairs? The question is pondered by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club. Perhaps…
This commentary was originally published in Fortune. The views expressed are the author’s own.The past three years, Big Tech and Wall Street have financed the artificial intelligence boom on a simple premise: build the infrastructure now, and a historic wave of corporate productivity will soon pay the tab. Within 48 hours, two of the market’s most closely watched economists, both at firms financing that buildout, challenged the premise, publishing back-to-back…
Major development is already taking shape across the Corridor, from Sister at its northern end to the continued expansion of Citylabs and Manchester Science Park in the south. The Strategy also looks ahead to the transformation of Manchester Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations, alongside better connections with surrounding communities. An independent assessment underpinning the Strategy estimates that the development pipeline could support around 15,800 additional jobs and generate £1.9 billion…
Much of your recent work explores how people in lower-power roles can exert agency and influence in their organizations. How did you arrive at that research interest?My interest came as a byproduct of doing lots of ethnographic studies and being blown away, over and over again, by the wisdom of people I was spending time with. Observing them in their day-to-day work, I saw they had insights they didn’t feel…
Transcript Harlan Krumholz: Welcome to Health & Veritas. I’m Harlan Krumholz.Howard Forman: And I’m Howie Forman. We’re physicians and professors at Yale University, and we’re trying to get closer to the truth about health and healthcare.Harlan Krumholz: Howie, we got a treat today. Christine Won is with us.Howard Forman: Oh, my God. Yep.Harlan Krumholz: She leads our sleep center and she’s going to answer all of your questions about sleep.…
Quick Hits A growing number of states and localities are passing laws to prohibit workplace discrimination based on menopause or perimenopause. Menopause symptoms may be covered under the ADA, depending on the woman’s limitations and essential job functions. Employers often cover menopause treatments in group health plans. Legislative Action and Case Law Legislation (H.R.9671) is pending in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require covered employers to provide reasonable…
Quick Hits Oregon OSHA has finalized a workplace violence prevention rule that expressly covers home health agencies and home hospice programs in addition to hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. The rule defines “workplace violence” to include threats, harassment, and intimidating behavior not just physical assault. Oregon OSHA’s Discrimination Complaint Rule (OAR 437-001-0295) now includes reporting workplace violence incidents. Covered employers must record incidents on the Health Care Workplace Violence Incident…
As geopolitical uncertainty grows, governments are reassessing their defence priorities and increasing military investment. Last March, the Government of Canada announced that it had met NATO’s spending target on defence of 2 per cent of the GDP, bringing Canadian defence expenses to more than $63 billion for 2025 to 20261. Canada has now committed to NATO to increase its defence spending to 4 per cent of GDP by 2030 and…
India and Russia approach maritime navigation from different circumstances, but share an interest in dependable access to the seas. Cooperation will be most effective when it combines candid discussion of differences with practical measures to protect legitimate commerce, Sanjeev Chowdhry writes. Freedom of navigation is commonly understood as a legal principle that enables ships to move through the world’s seas. Its practical meaning, however, becomes apparent when a tanker cannot…
Quick Hits The NJDOL proposes capping the difference between a posted range’s maximum and minimum at 60 percent of the minimum. The 60 percent cap was the most striking feature of the September 2025 proposed regulations. No other jurisdiction currently limits the size of an employer’s posted pay range beyond requiring a good faith estimate. The NJDOL’s FAQs also remove reference to the cap. New Jersey’s pay transparency statute took…
At the CIRO booth: Dealer regulation and compliance developments Client Focused Reforms guidance The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) is developing a series of three targeted compliance bulletins to help Dealer Members and Approved Persons apply the Client Focused Reforms (CFRs) in practice. The bulletins build on Joint CSA/CIRO Staff Notice 31-368 Client Focused Reforms: Review of Registrants’ Know Your Client, Know Your Product and Suitability Determination Practices and Additional…
Before Alex Lee joined Magic Patterns (W23), he was running his own company, Iago — one that's still self-running today. But when his former Robinhood colleague Teddy co-founded Magic Patterns, a tool that helps product designers create interactive mockups and prototypes, Alex saw something he couldn't pass up: an AI-first approach to a problem he'd hit himself while building new features at Iago. "It's pretty clear that Figma is going…
Quick Hits In Winn v. Blakeslee Vineyard Estate, Inc., 352 Or App 803 (2026), the Oregon Court of Appeals resolved a previously unsettled question under ORS 652.615 in the employer’s favor. The court affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiff’s class claims under ORCP 32 I’s notice-and-cure mechanism and separately affirmed the dismissal of her individual claims for failure to prosecute. Chief Judge Lagesen dissented, concluding that the plain text of…
How should litigants and trial judges approach the causation analysis in negligence cases? In Hemmings v. Padmore, 2026 SCC 34, released on October 23, 2026, the Supreme Court of Canada clarified and restated the law of causation in negligence cases, including complex medical negligence cases. The decision underscores the distinct roles of factual causation and remoteness and the need to address each separately in the causation analysis. BLG is proud…
This loss of an important pressure-balancing mechanism could help explain why blood vessels remain abnormally constricted in preeclampsia, driving dangerous increases in blood pressure.The team also tested HBD2, a naturally occurring immune-system molecule that helps the body fight infection."Although the molecule – known as a peptide - did not restore the faulty calcium sparks, it was still able to relax blood vessels by activating a different part of the same…
Quick Hits New York City recently adopted final amended rules implementing the Fair Chance Act, which limits employers’ criminal history inquiries and consideration of criminal histories in taking adverse actions against applicants or employees being considered for promotion or transfer. The rules requires employers to allow at least five business days for candidates to respond to inquiries about their criminal history before revoking offers or taking adverse actions—up from three…
Quick Hits The U.S. Department of Labor recently updated its tipped-employee guidance to reflect the Fifth Circuit’s 2024 decision in Restaurant Law Center and the reinstatement of the original dual jobs regulation. The FAB withdraws outdated materials and clarifies how employers should distinguish tipped and non-tipped work. Among other things, the bulletin states that percentage-based limits on duties within a tipped occupation no longer reflect Department policy. The Dual Jobs…
When conservation planners want to protect habitat, they generally can’t simply set aside one giant parcel of land. Planners often need to choose many small patches of land while minimizing the cost of buying them, considering how well each spot protects species, and making sure all the pieces are connected so that animals can move freely among them.“You have all these different objectives at the same time,” says Jamie Tucker-Foltz,…
Seyfarth Synopsis: The New York State Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued guidance addressing several open questions under New York’s Trapped at Work Act (“Act”), which takes effect December 19, 2026. Among other clarifications, the DOL confirms that the Act applies only to new agreements or new or amended terms in existing agreements entered into on or after the effective date, and that genuinely voluntary repayment arrangements may fall outside the Act…
Quick Hits In the event of a discriminatory rejection, employers in Germany are, in principle, liable for lost earnings under Section 15 (1) AGG. The claim ends once the affected person has become established in other employment. The chain of causation is broken once the person has taken up suitable new employment that has become established. Proportionality and the general risks of life limit liability. The Case—Age Discrimination in an…
Graham Page joins Press Gazette to explore how publishers can embrace the creator economy while protecting trust. As the creator economy reshapes how audiences consume content, traditional publishers face new challenges and opportunities. Q5’s Head of Media & Creative Industries, Graham Page, joins Press Gazette and The Guardian’s Leah Green to discuss creator-led journalism, evolving business models and how publishers can innovate while protecting their most valuable asset: trust. Reading…
Quick Hits B.C. employers that had fifty or more employees on January 1, 2026, must publish their first pay transparency report by November 1, 2026. Reports must disclose gender-based gaps in hourly pay, overtime, and bonuses, as well as the gender makeup of pay quartiles. Reporting is an annual obligation. Which Employers Must Report Unless exempted by regulation, an employer becomes a “reporting employer” based on its headcount on January…
What clients need to know: The $1 million penalty limit is being removed. For contraventions occurring after Sept. 21, 2026, administrative monetary penalties (AMPs) will no longer be subject to the previous aggregate $1 million cap. Exposure may materially increase where non-compliance generates economic benefits through cost avoidance; RPRA to receive more financial information. PROs in all five programs must report information, including collection and management costs, that may help…
On October 23, the Valdai Discussion Club’s Moscow venue hosted a discussion titled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?” Participants discussed the sustainability of Russian-African cooperation, its prospects for the next fifteen to twenty years, and the conditions necessary for the transition from political agreements to long-term practical projects. Valdai Discussion Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev, who moderated the discussion, addressed the sustainability of Russia’s presence in…
Quick Hits A claim under Section 12 (3) of the German General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG)) for measures against a colleague requires that the colleague’s conduct constitutes discrimination based on a characteristic listed in Section 1 AGG. Assigning a long-tenured employee to share an office with trainees does not, without more, constitute age discrimination. Rudeness is not workplace bullying; conduct rises to that level only when it is…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently dismissed a plaintiff’s trip-and-fall lawsuit against the City of London in Weiler v. City of London, 2026 ONSC 2011. The court found that the plaintiff failed to prove the sidewalk discontinuity exceeded the two-centimetre threshold under the Minimum Maintenance Standards (MMS). The court also ruled that the city's pandemic-related decision to pause annual inspections was protected by core policy immunity. Background On March…
A landmark centre aims to discover exactly how the human brain develops for the very first time.The new Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for Human Neural Development will integrate world-leading expertise with cutting-edge research to fill in major gaps in the fundamental understanding of brain growth and development.Led by King’s College London, in partnership with University College London (UCL) and the University of Manchester, the key…
On Sept. 15, 2026, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published OSC Staff Notice 81-741 Investment Management Division Annual Summary Report (the Staff Notice), summarizing the activities and regulatory focus of the OSC’s Investment Management Division for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026. The past fiscal year was defined by accelerating product innovation, a continued shift in investor preferences toward Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), and significant movement on long-anticipated policy files,…
On 28 October at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Moscow venue of the Valdai Club will host a presentation of the report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?” dedicated to the implementation of international maritime law norms in modern conditions. Changes in international legislation concerning the high seas largely lag behind the development of economic activity. Even before the entry into force of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the…
A student from The University of Manchester is preparing to climb Africa’s highest mountain to raise money for young people with cancer, drawing on his own family’s experiences of the disease.Next August, 30 year old Joseph Mooney from Whitefield will take on the challenge of trekking up the 5895 metre Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust, a charity supporting young people facing cancer.For Joseph, the…
Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Public Health senior fellow Ashwin Vasan to discuss the ambitious agenda he pursued as New York City health commissioner: helping New Yorkers live longer, transforming mental healthcare, and rethinking what government can do to make people healthier. Howie examines the blood clots suffered by Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and the questions they raise about player safety; Harlan discusses the financial…