Justicia for Migrant Workers and the Industrial Accidents Victims Group of Ontario Receive Intervener Status at Supreme Court of Canada: For the first time in Canadian legal history, arguments relating to the plight of Canada’s…
Yesterday, Michael Ignatieff stated that pay equity is “a basic human right” and blasted the Conservatives who “[…] very clearly used their 2009 budget to impose their ideological opposition to pay equity for Canadian women.”…
Nanny wins landmark suit after Star investigation A foreign caregiver brought to Canada with a job offer from a “ghost employer” has been awarded $10,000 in damages in what is believed to be the first…
Even though B.C. passed back-to-work legislation for paramedics and dispatches in Nov., the ongoing dispute with the labour could still affect the Vancouver Olympics. The Canadian Press reports: Ambulance Paramedics of B.C. president John Strohmaier…
Nathalie Blanchard of Bromont, Quebec, has been on sick leave for a year and a half for long-term chronic depression. The 29-year-old woman had her benefits cut by IBM after she posted pictures on Facebook…
Yesterday at 00:01, the London Transit Commission went on strike for the first time in almost 30 years. Â The local 741 Amalgamated Transit Union and the City of London are, depending on who you talk…
Image From National Post via WattUpWithThat? In the public policy debates over climate change, critics of strong action to mitigate global warming have often described proponents as “religious zealotsâ€, and vice-versa. Moreover, since the concern…
Tony Wilson, of Boughton in Vancouver, wrote in this week’s issue of Lawyer’s Weekly, Reputation matters… But it’s not just companies and trade-mark owners who have reputations to protect. We all do, and these days,…
Western Law hosted a forum on pension reform this past Thursday, featuring community leaders, legal academics, and practitioners. Pension Plan Basics Prof. Robert Brown of the University of Waterloo explained some of the basics behind…
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