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Navigating the Beauty Maze: Counterfeit Cosmetics, Social Media Influence, and the Pursuit of Deals

Nelligan Law

The Perils of Counterfeit Cosmetics Counterfeit cosmetics pose significant health and well-being risks, as they are often manufactured without adherence to safety standards or ingredient quality, unlike authentic products. These heavy metals pose severe health risks to unsuspecting consumers, including potential infertility issues.

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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 121: The Law Is No Longer Fit For Purpose – My Appearance Before the ETHI Committee on Canadian Privacy and Mobility Data

Michael Geist

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics spent much of February conducting a study on the collection and use of mobility data by the Government of Canada.

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Government Departments Pressure Social Media Sites to Censor News Links, Mean Tweets

Michael Geist

The headline grabbing example comes from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, which pressured both Facebook and Twitter to remove links to a Toronto Sun article. For example, the Public Health Agency of Canada pressured Twitter to remove many tweets it said contained “offensive language.” Sessional Paper No.

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Unvaccinated Parents Risk Losing Parenting Time

Nelligan Law

She was satisfied that judicial notice could be taken of various Health Canada approvals and various facts found about the safety of the vaccine on the Government of Canada’s Public Health Agency website.[1]. Justice Godbout emphasized that rules of evidence allow courts to take judicial notice (i.e.,

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Who is responsible for discriminatory AI systems in healthcare?

IPilogue

Health Canada, in a joint effort with the US Food and Drug Administration and the U.K. ‘s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, has identified ten guiding principles to inform the development of Good Machine Learning Practices (the dominant method used to train AI systems).

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Phone, Wallet, Keys…Vaccine Passport? Canada’s Response to the Vaccine Passport Debate

IPilogue

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our day-to-day lives with new public health guidelines and restrictions that impact everything, from how we work to how we move around. The implementation of a domestic vaccine passport system has garnered significant debate in Canada. The Vaccine Passport Issue. Federal Response.

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The Urgent Need for Privacy Reform: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics

Michael Geist

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics spent much of February conducting a study on the collection and use of mobility data by the Government of Canada. If Canada is looking for a modernized privacy law and it wishes to meet international standards, the starting point is the European Union’s GDPR.

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