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The CBA Immigration Law Section is accepting nominations for its Founders’ Award. This award recognizes an exceptional law student or junior lawyer and a future leader of our Section. The successful candidate will be recognized at our National Immigration Law Conference in April 2018.

The next cohort of the Business Leadership Program for In-House Counsel begins its journey in May 2018 in Toronto. Apply today and jumpstart your career!

CBA International Initiatives played host in September to a delegation from the Vietnam Ministry of Justice, part of the CBA’s National Legislative Development project, which supports the implementation of a legislative reform taking place in Vietnam.

The Department of Canadian Heritage is now seeking applications from persons willing to serve as members of one of the two independent expert panels for the CCP – one for official language rights and one for human rights.

Modernizing air transportation: Tariffs, complaints and the definition of Canadian

Is a smartphone more like a letter or a briefcase?

The CBA Air and Space Law Section sent a submission on Regulatory Modernization for Air Transportation to the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA). The submission was prepared in response to the CTA’s Discussion Paper on Modernizing Regulation for Air Transport.

The CBA intervened in Iggillis Holdings Inc. v Canada (National Revenue) at the Federal Court of Appeal in Edmonton. Mark Tonkovich, Jacques Bernier, and Stephanie Dewey of Baker McKenzie appeared for the CBA in this matter of common interest privilege.

Former President René Basque travelled to Rome in September to attend a conference of international bar association leaders on privacy and security.

Does your Section have a conference planned for this fall? Check this list to find out.