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- Appeal Watch: Executive Authority Trenches on Legislative Protections for Post-Secondary Student Associations in Canadian Federation of Students v Ontario
In Canadian Federation of Students v Ontario, 2021 ONCA 553 [CFS 2021], the Court of Appeal for Ontario (“the Court”) unanimously ruled that the Minister of Colleges and Universities cannot condition funding to post-secondary institutions on a student opt-out mechanism for “non-essential” ancillary … Read more »
- Appeal Watch: Consecutive Ineligible Parole Periods Deemed Unconstitutional in Attorney General of Quebec, et al. v. Alexandre Bissonnette
*TRIGGER WARNING: This post has descriptions of violence that may be triggering to some readers* Since the abolition of the death penalty, the highest sentence a judge can prescribe to a criminal offender is a life sentence with a 25-year parole ineligibility period. Where there are multiple murder … Read more »
- Southwind v Canada: Assessing Equitable Compensation for Taken Indigenous Land
In 1929, the creation of electrical power for Winnipeg, Manitoba resulted in the destruction of land, livelihood and community for a nearby Indigenous group. Nearly a century later, this government decision was the subject of a Supreme Court of Canada ruling. In Southwind v Canada, 2021 SCC 28 [Sout … Read more »
- Corner Brook (City) v Bailey: Interpreting Releases and Drafting Contracts
Justice Rowe of the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) stated that Corner Brook (City) v Bailey, 2021 SCC 29 [Corner Brook] is about “the proper approach to interpreting the scope of a release” (Corner Brook, para 1). In a unanimous decision, the SCC determined that the general principles of contract l … Read more »