Does Canada Even Want You?

lawiscool | Civil Rights, Humour, Immigration Law, Labour & Employment Law | 27th March - 2008

Steve Sailer, a Conservative American journalist, found out the hard way that we don’t.
He completed the Citizenship and Immigration Canada Self-Assessment Worksheet in 2001 and scored 61 points. The passing mark for consideration of an interview is 60.
(The current passing mark is 67) >>> […]

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Nursing Union Wins Battle for Healthcare

lawiscool | Health Law, Labour & Employment Law, Politics | 24th March - 2008

In a Supreme Court of B.C. ruling released this weekend, British Columbia Nurses’ Union v. Attorney General of British Columbia, nurses have won the latest fight against two-tier healthcare.
The British Columbia Nursing Union (BCNU) filed a suit against the provincial attorney general and Medical Services Commission for allowing the expansion of private […]

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Legally Rude - Jerks of the Web

Although we’ve discussed briefly boundaries that bloggers often cross, in addition to libel and slander, lawyers are not immune from offensive behaviour either.
ABC Nightline covered a story of a 24 year-old Boston lawyer who was not satisfied with a job offer they had received. A flame war ensued.
But strangely enough one of the […]

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Pay Equity, and the New Glass Ceiling

Omar Ha-Redeye | Civil Rights, Labour & Employment Law, Law Career | 7th March - 2008

CLC Report
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day, and in commemoration the Canadian Labour Congress released a report on gender equity in the workforce with some surprising findings,
Strikingly, the pay gap has grown rather than narrowed even as women have become more highly educated than men, and even as most women have decided to have fewer children, […]

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Age Discrimination - Against the Young

Ageism, or discrimination in the workplace against seniors, is a well known issue in Western societies facing an older Baby Boomer population.
But the Times Online reports a case of age discrimination against a teenager.
Toronto lawyer Gary Wise says,
As mandatory retirement laws in the West fall by the wayside, will the practice of age-discrimination against the […]

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Careers in Labour Law

A panel of experts spoke at the University of Western Ontario on careers in labour law on Feb. 14, 2008.

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