Frustration of Employment Contracts and Wrongful Dismissal

The Library of Parliament recently released its legislative summary of Bill C-27, the First Nations Financial Transparency Act:"The proposed legislation, which applies to over 600 First Nations communities defined as 'Indian bands' under the Indian Act, provides a legislative basis for the preparati... more »

At the Court  is a biweekly feature profiling appeals that are scheduled to be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada. R v DC and R v Mabior: Revising Cuerrier? The Supreme Court will be revisiting the highly contentious Cuerrier decision on February 8 when it hears R v DC and R v Mabior together. [. more »

How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work from the Jan 21, 2012 online New York Times Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device wa... more »

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The above image was taken from the BC Government Website where they recently launched a “budget calculator” permitting the public to play around with various tax revenues and expenditures.  The calculator is far from complete, however, leaving many expenses out of bounds.  One expense... more »

The School of HRM at York, my home school, has grown from a few professors to 13 full-time faculty in the past few years.  Now we are hiring two positions they call here Sessional Assistant Professors.  These are primarily teaching posts.  The successful applicant will teach a course load of 3.0,... more »

Here are the leading legal headlines for Friday, January 27, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter : Costa passengers offered $14,460 for ruined cruise, trauma India's 30-Year-Old Divorce Ends Rogers uses charter claim to fight truth-in-advertising law. - Montreal Gazette Police dog attack sparks Vanc... more »

On August 15, 2011, I blogged on the decision of Hennessy J. in Makarchuk v. Makarchuk, 2011 ONSC 4633 (CanLII).  There, the court found that a separation agreement did not preclude the surviving spouse from benefitting under the deceased’s will. On Monday this week, the Ontario Court of... more »

The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. (excellent analysis from Benkler and Downes) and elsewhere (mounting Canadian concern that Bill C-11 could be amended to adopt SOPA-like rules), but it is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that has captured increasing atten... more »

PDF version: CCS is now a CDM Project Activity   Decision commented on: Decision -/CMP.7 Modalities and procedures for carbon dioxide capture and storage in geological formations as clean development mechanism project activities - adopted in December 2011. The 17th United Nations Climate Change Co... more »

Mahnaz Jan Ali est étudiante dans le cadre du cours DRT 6929O. Profitant de la lumière internationale jetée sur les questions de technologie autant par l'affaire Megaupload que par la proposition SOPA, la Commissaire européenne chargée de la Justice et des Droits fondamentaux, Viviane Reding, t... more »

Two U.S. lawyers have reported to us that they’ve been contacted by the purported David Yamaguchi of China Manufacturing Supply Group with regards to retaining their services to collect on a breach of a license agreement. It is nearly identical to the Andrew Kazuyuki and Dan Nagasakii emails lawye... more »

I linked earlier today to the important case of US v Jones (US Supreme Court says cops need a warrant to GPS track a vehicle). It's an important case, but I think it is worth noting Justice Sotomayor calls the "third party doctrine" into question. It is an aside and not the opinion of the Court, but... more »

Today, we warmly welcome Colleen Getz — evaluator for the previous phase of our distance mediation service — as she follows up on an earlier post in which she discussed the environmental benefits of meeting with the help of technology: We humans have a bad habit of creating new problems in our... more »

On October 15th of last year Arbitrator Joseph Carrier denied a production request that sought a variety of records relating to a resident of a facility for young offenders. The request was made before a hearing of a discharge grievance. The employer terminated the grievor based on evidence provided... more »

BCLA's Library Technicians & Assistants Interest Group, or LTAIG, has published their 2011 salary survey for library technicians.Some key metrics:81% were from BC, but 7 provinces or territories are represented;59% had completed the 2-yr LIT college diploma;Langara and UFV graduates dominated (4... more »

♬ I wouldn’t settle for nothing I couldn’t settle for that I’d rather settle for something I don’t believe in than listen to anymore of your chit chat…♬ Lyrics music and recorded by the Headstones.   On January 17, Dr. Frank Fowlie, a Fellow with the Centre for... more »

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Gordon Hirabayashi, a former sociology prof and chair at the University of Alberta. Professor Hirabayashi was one of three Japanese Americans to defy internment during WWII. At the time, his curfew... more »

For those of you looking for learning opportunities in the New Year, I have managed to update my Seminars page which details the courses that I am scheduled to teach for the Manitoba Human Rights Commission in 2012.  In addition, if you click on the link I’ve provided on my Seminars page to t... more »

In Fan v. Chana, 2009 BCSC 1127, an infant Plaintiff went to trial and was awarded damages for her injuries in the amount of approximately $32,000 and, in the usual fashion, was entitled to costs…... more »

On December 16, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated decision in Copthorne Holdings Ltd. v. Canada, in which the Court considered the General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) for the fourth time. In contrast to its previous GAAR decision in Lipson, the Court arrived at a unanimo... more »

A few weeks ago I attended SLA Toronto's event Start It Up!  The event was hosted by Helen Kula at the MaRS Discovery District where she works as a Senior Information Specialist in the Market Intelligence group. Four local vendors presented their technologies, all in the area of infor... more »

Don't just be a googler. The wonderful 3 Geeks and a Law Blog has a great post today about 10 things you can do with the Wolfram-Alpha search engine.I have written about Wolfram Alpha and time sheets, others at Slaw.ca have written about using the site for generating passwords, and one Slawyer was b... more »

[This article was originally published on www.SLAW.ca in September, 2011] We have been watching the ascent of social media in legal marketing for a few years now. Law blogs, once considered a frivolity suitable only for the technogeek outliers at the fringe of the law firm, are now recognized as le... more »