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Conservatives won't support Liberal border bill without major changes: Pierre Poilievre | CBC News

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 3d

Poilievre: "They should reintroduce a new bill that focuses on law breakers, on restoring order at the border, on kicking out fraudulent refugees, while at the same time allowing people to send mail, use the internet or do legitimate lawful cash transactions."

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 3d

Happy to see this -- now all opposition parties opposed to new search powers in C-2. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal Liberals must either heavily amend their border bill or introduce a new piece of proposed legislation if they want support to pass it into law.

www.cbc.ca

Will Canada’s new hate crime bill impact free speech online?

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 4d

Trying out Perplexity's Comet browser, made free to all users yesterday. Had been using Arc's Dia browser. Found that enormously useful. P's Comet so far faster, more functional. Will write about it shortly... Here's a table comparing the two...

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 11d

BC Court of Appeal turns down doctors' class action against RateMDs — no privacy in names and contact info, no commercial exploitation of docs' identities. canlii.ca/t/kfhmc

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 12d

Early impressions of Canada’s new hate crime bill (C-9): @richardmoon.bsky.social: flag waving offence may be redundant; the CCF, it may chill speech. Here’s my take:

robertdiab.substack.com/p/will-canad...

What Bill C-9 adds to our hate speech laws — and whether it fills a real gap

Will Canada’s new hate crime bill impact free speech online?

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 12d

Will new hate speech offences in Bill C-9 impact speech online? Will they fill real gaps in the law? I put them in context here…

robertdiab.substack.com/p/will-canad...

What Bill C-9 adds to our hate speech laws — and whether it fills a real gap

How AI has made me more productive

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 16d

No shortage of hype around AI and productivity. But in my own work, the gains have started to feel tangible. Not incremental, but structural, like moving from typewriter to word processor. I unpack this shift in National Magazine:

www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

From faster research to sharper drafts, here’s how AI is changing the way legal writing gets done

www.nationalmagazine.ca

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 19d

What photography did to painting, AI may now be doing to writing. Does this mark the death of authorship, or its reinvention? robertdiab.substack.com/p/authorship...

Authorship after AI

What the birth of photography reveals about writing with AI

CBC Ian Hanomansing speaks to Robert Diab, Law professor at Thompson Rivers University

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · 23d

Just spoke with Ian Hanomansing on the CBC about Bill C-2, trying to convey in a short space some of the many privacy concerns with it. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.

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CanLII @canlii.bsky.social · Aug 21

The latest issue (vol 58 no 2) of the UBC Law Review is now available on CanLII! With contributions from Jon Festinger, Céline Castets-Renard, Robert Diab, Bradley Henderson, Katie Szilagyi, Peter Wills, Isabelle St-Hilaire, David Cohen + Matthew Peters. #ai #techlaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/DKCqY

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Aug 30

What happens when AI leads to self-harm or criminality? Could lawsuits unfolding in the U.S. be brought here in Canada? robertdiab.substack.com/p/when-ai-tu...

When AI Turns Deadly: Are Model Makers Responsible?

The limits of liability in Canada

News release: Privacy Commissioner finds that Canadians have a right to have information de-listed from online search engine results in limited circumstances - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Google has declined to implement the Commissioner’s recommendation"... The Commissioner is "considering all available options"...

Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · Aug 27

OPC finds there is a limited “right to deletion” from search results under PIPEDA. Requires Google to de-list several articles when “there is a significant risk of harm that outweighs the public interest in that information remaining accessible through such a search.”
www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/...

The investigation, resulting from a complaint against Google, found that the company had violated Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

www.priv.gc.ca

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks David!

David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · Jul 24

Anyone interested in smart, insightful analysis of #BillC2 #LawfulAccess measures really should check out "The Missing Manual" by @robertdiab.bsky.social robertdiab.substack.com/p/bill-c-2-b...

Bill C-2 Backgrounder - the missing manual!

Just in time for the beach

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Bill C-2 Backgrounder — the missing manual! t.co/y2ORIYSoHI

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Jul 22

Lisa, this was terrific! Hope they’ll reconsider.

Experts say Bill C-2 lowers the bar and broadens the scope to allow more access by police and intelligence agents to Canadians’ private data

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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · Jul 22

The CBA's National Magazine has a good article on #BillC2, including comments from me, @mgeist.bsky.social, @robertdiab.bsky.social and @citizenlab.ca
www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

A big brother bill

www.nationalmagazine.ca

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Jul 15

A closer look at the new lawful access act in bill c-2 for CIGI... www.cigionline.org/articles/can...

Canada’s Lawful Access Bill: Heavy on Secrecy, Light on Accountability

Following Australia, Canada takes a middle path between the more and less coercive approaches of Britain and the United States — but with fewer safeguards.

www.cigionline.org

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Jul 10

Striking that most common device for YouTube is now TV…

www.techpolicy.press/google-is-po...

Google is Poised to Devour Yet Another Market: Television | TechPolicy.Press

It's time to turn our attention to how Google is gobbling up our entertainment industry, too, Hannah Garden-Monheit writes.

www.techpolicy.press

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Jul 1

I noticed a big uptake in student use of AI this spring at TRU Law. Does this prevent you from becoming a good lawyer? Topic of my new post at Slaw.ca

www.slaw.ca/2025/07/01/s...

Slaw

Canada's online legal magazine

Slaw.ca

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 236: Robert Diab on the Return of Lawful Access - Michael Geist

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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · Jun 16

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 236: Robert Diab (@robertdiab.bsky.social‬) on the Return of Lawful Access
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/law-...

Lawful access is back. Bill C-2, the government’s border bill, includes a fairly comprehensive set of lawful access rules, including a new information demand power that would result in warrantless dis...

www.michaelgeist.ca

Major new search powers in the Strong Borders Act: are they constitutional?

Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Jun 8

My latest post dives into whether they're constitutional.

robertdiab.substack.com/p/major-new-...

What's happening to our Charter right to privacy online?

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Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social · Jun 8

They would let police:

-Get subscriber info (your name, IP address, location) from ISPs on reasonable suspicion

-Demand info from Gmail, iCloud, Instagram — without a warrant

-Compel platforms to build tools for direct access to our data