Nuclear import/export licence applications now require more details, plus a new 6-year record-keeping obligation

Anyone applying for a licence to import or export controlled nuclear substances, equipment, or information must now provide additional details in their application: their CRA business number (if they have one), a Cana…

New penalty added for failing to keep nuclear import/export records under licence

The schedule of violations subject to administrative monetary penalties under nuclear safety rules has been updated. A new Category A penalty item now applies to anyone who fails to retain records related to imports o…

Several bird species reclassified between Threatened and Special Concern on Canada's species-at-risk lists

The federal species-at-risk schedules have been updated to move a number of bird species between protection categories. Bobolink, Barn Swallow, Canada Warbler, Eastern Whip-poor-will, Ferruginous Hawk, and Heron fanni…

Federal government formally receives COSEWIC risk assessments for seven bird species, including Canada Warbler

The federal government has formally acknowledged receipt of wildlife risk assessments completed by COSEWIC for seven bird species. One species — the Short-eared Owl — is assessed as Threatened. Five species (Bobolink,…

Federal government acknowledges COSEWIC risk assessments for Basking Shark and 14 other aquatic species

The federal government has formally acknowledged receiving new wildlife risk assessments from COSEWIC covering 15 fish species across Canadian waters. Six species have been assessed as Endangered (including Porbeagle…

Annual parliamentary reports from Canada's nuclear and energy regulators are discontinued

The federal government has ordered that two annual reports previously required to be tabled in Parliament are discontinued: the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's annual report and the Canada Energy Regulator Board…

Ontario updates administrative penalty rules for resource recovery and tire management contraventions

Ontario has revised the administrative penalty framework that applies to businesses operating under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act. The $1 million per-contravention cap structure (previously in subsect…

Producer responsibility organizations must now report detailed cost and pricing data for hazardous and special products programs

Producer responsibility organizations (PROs) that manage hazardous and special products (HSP) programs on behalf of producers must now include detailed financial information in their annual reports. Required new discl…

Blue box producer responsibility organizations must now report detailed cost and pricing data in annual reports

Producer responsibility organizations (PROs) operating under Ontario's blue box program must now include four new categories of financial information in their annual reports: total costs related to producer agreements…

Producer responsibility organizations for electronics must now report detailed cost data — but that data stays confidential

Organizations that manage electronics recycling obligations on behalf of producers (called producer responsibility organizations, or PROs) must now include four new items in their annual reports: total costs incurred…

Battery PROs must now report detailed cost data annually, with a one-time catch-up report due by end of 2026

Producer responsibility organizations (PROs) operating in the Ontario battery recycling program must now include four new items in their annual April 30 report: total program costs, cost-per-tonne figures for both col…

Ontario tire producers face higher management targets, new Northern Ontario collection quotas, and stricter site-substitution rules

Tire producers and producer responsibility organizations (PROs) in Ontario face several major changes to how they must collect and manage used tires. The management target—the share of a producer's average supply weig…

Accountability provisions of Canada's child care law now have a confirmed force date

Sections 9 to 15 of the Canada Early Learning and Child Care Act — which cover accountability and oversight mechanisms — have been given a confirmed coming-into-force date by order in council. These provisions were pr…

Ontario teacher certification rules updated to recognize four-semester programs and gender-neutral language

The regulation governing teacher qualifications in Ontario is being amended in two main ways. First, a new category called a 'four-semester program of professional education' is introduced to cover teacher education p…

Indigenous Institutes added as permitted teacher education providers; transitional accreditation rules clarified

The regulation now recognises entities authorised under the Indigenous Institutes Act, 2017 to offer programs of professional education leading to a diploma, certificate or degree as "permitted institutions" that can…

Part of Ontario's student-achievement law now in force, amending the Education Act

A specific section of the Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026 (Schedule 2, section 8) has been officially proclaimed into force by the Ontario government, meaning it now has legal effect. Proclamation is the s…

School board member honorarium rules shifted from Act to ministerial regulation

The detailed honorarium provisions that previously appeared directly in the Education Act — including the board's discretion to set its own honorarium amounts, extra pay for chairs and vice-chairs, and public consulta…

New rules set response and review timelines for Canada's High Risk Child Sex Offender Database

These new regulations establish two key operational timelines for the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database. First, once an application to have information added or corrected is received, a decision must be made withi…

Atlantic lobster fishing area boundary map updated and one seasonal close-time entry repealed

The consolidated map coordinates for Part V of the Lobster Fishing Areas schedule have been replaced with a fully detailed, point-by-point coordinate table (43 named points with North American Datum of 1927 reference)…

Broiler hatching egg production quotas reset to 2026 limits, with 2027 limits published but not yet in force

The active quota schedule has been updated to set the maximum number of broiler hatching eggs that can be marketed interprovincially or exported from each signatory province for the 2026 calendar year. Ontario's limit…

Speed limit zone boundaries updated on Hwys 403, 404, 406, QEW, 407 East, 412, 418 and QEW Link

Several stretches of Ontario provincial highways have had their speed-limit zone boundaries redefined. On Hwy 403, the Mississauga-to-Oakville reduced-speed segment is renumbered and its description clarified; on Hwy…

Canada adds five Iranian organizations and five individuals to Iran sanctions list

Canada's Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations have been expanded to add five Iranian entities and five individuals to the sanctions schedules. The newly listed organizations are SATRA (Iranian Audiovisual Medi…

Ontario brings new residential tenancy rules into force under Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act

Specific provisions of Ontario's Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025 that amend the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 have now been officially proclaimed — meaning they become legally binding law on the stated co…

Specific rental-housing provisions of the 2023 Homebuyers/Tenants Act are now active

Sections 3 and 5 of Schedule 7 of the Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 have been proclaimed into force, meaning these particular amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 are now legally operat…

Specific residential tenancy rule changes from Ontario's 2025 building-speed law will take effect in September 2026

A set of provisions from Schedule 12 of the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025 that amend the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 have been officially proclaimed and will come into force on a fixed future date. Pr…

Two provisions of the 2023 Homebuyers/Tenants Act affecting residential tenancy law are now in force

Specific sections of the Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 — Schedule 7, section 4 and section 11(2) — have been officially proclaimed into force, meaning they are now active law. Proclamation is the st…

Landlords must use the official N4 form when giving notice to end a tenancy for unpaid rent

A new regulation sets out that any notice a landlord gives to end a tenancy because a tenant has not paid rent must use the specific form called

Several new tenancy rules on rent, eviction and co-op housing are now in force

Changes to the regulation under Ontario's Residential Tenancies Act bring a set of previously announced provisions into the consolidated text, removing their "future commencement" notices and making them active rules.…

Ontario residential tenancy law updated: shorter non-payment notice, tighter eviction postponement rules, and new tenant hearing requirements

Several provisions of Ontario's residential tenancy law have been consolidated from previously announced future amendments into the active text of the law. For non-payment of rent, landlords can now give a termination…