March 2026

Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 388

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Crypto Criminals, Poop Avengers, and the World’s Most Expensive Photograph

Welcome back to Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, where the legal news is stranger than fiction and the criminals are somehow getting dumber yet more ambitious and successful at the same time. This week, we are going full crypto. Not because cryptocurrency is inherently weird (though let’s be honest, it kind of is) but because the people using it apparently never got the memo that “anonymous” does not mean “unstoppable.”

Buckle up.

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My Face is Not a Public Commodity – Clearview AI Loses Legal Challenge

In a digital world where we share photos of our lives daily, a recent landmark court decision in British Columbia has just set a huge legal boundary: just because your photo is online doesn’t mean it’s public property for any company to use.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal recently delivered its judgment in Clearview AI Inc. v. British Columbia (Information and Privacy Commissioner), a case with massive implications for our digital privacy.

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Foreign Buyer’s Tax: Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t!

Welcome to “Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t!”

In this episode, Kyla Lee from Acumen Law Corporation examines a case involving British Columbia’s foreign buyers tax. The province imposed an additional property transfer tax on foreign purchasers in response to the housing crisis, with the goal of prioritizing housing for Canadian residents. The challenge arose when a noncitizen incorporated a Canadian company to purchase property, arguing that because a corporation is a legal person and the company was Canadian, the foreign buyers tax should not apply. The Court of Appeal rejected that argument and upheld the application of the tax. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the appeal.

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