Dark patterns are a Canadian legal problem now

4:03 p.m.Claude responded: A puppet on strings — a visual metaphor for manipulation through deceptive design patterns.A puppet on strings; a visual metaphor for manipulation through deceptive design patterns.

Canada’s privacy regulator reviewed 145 Canadian sites in 2024. Ninety-nine percent had at least one dark pattern. Here is what the OPC found and five things to audit on your own.

3 Canadian typefaces every designer should know

Illustrated portraits of Canadian type designers Carl Dair, Rod McDonald, and Raymond Larabie

Three homegrown Canadian typefaces, three different stories. One set a constitution. One became a design-industry standard. One rewired what a national typeface is supposed to do.

What Bill C-34 would change for Canadians online

A child looks down at a smartphone held in both hands.

Canada introduced Bill C-34 on June 10. It would bar children under 16 from social media accounts, require platforms to design for child safety, and regulate AI chatbots for the first time.

Where Canada’s privacy law stands

A bespectacled robot reads a worn book labeled 2000, ignoring the digital symbols floating around it.

Canada’s federal privacy law was written in 2000. Three bills to replace it died in 2025. Your data is still governed by rules that predate the smartphone.