First OHS Fatal Negligence Conviction
A new positive duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm was added to the Criminal Code in 2004 under Bill C-45. Transpavé Inc. is the first company to be convincted under these new…
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Athens Petitions PSC to Add Sparta to Entities
The city-state of Athens has petitioned Public Safety Canada to add Sparta to it’s list of terrorist entities. The list can be found under the Criminal Code, as enabled by the Anti-Terrorism Act. 83.05 (1)…
Defending Liebeck v. McDonald’s
The scope of negligence in tort law expands and contracts over time. One of the landmark cases in product liability, Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants, has received much criticism as a frivolous lawsuit, and has been…
Planning, not Stressing, over your Career
As law students progress through their second semester of school, they invariably worry about obtaining a summer job after their first year. Andre Bacchus, former Acting Director of the Career Development Office at Osgoode Hall…
Crack Tax “Unfair” to Pushers
Gov. Spitzer of New York has proposed a state tax on drug dealers that would exempt from criminal prosecution. An agreement of confidentiality would also be issued to the dealer, …none of the information may…
MIT: Intro to Copyright Law (US)
Massacussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has a free open course available on Introduction to Copyright Law. Although the course content has an American focus, there are considerable implications between intellectual property and NAFTA. The course…
Regional Discrimination in Immigration
Wait times are up. And no, we’re not talking about health care. Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis reports that applications for immigrations have increased by 20 per cent since 2004. But what’s worse is that the…
Break Your Mother’s Back
In Canada, We Get to See them All…
Some good old Canadian national pride, to the beat of none other than Stomping Tom Connors‘ Cross Canada. This was a submission to the My Canada Video Contest, which closed at the end of last…
When the System Fails, Can Justice Prevail?
Four RCMP officers died in the tragic shootout in the Town of Mayerthorpe, Alberta, the greatest one-day loss in over 100 years. On March 3, 2005, James Roszko retaliated to a property seizure for growing…
Accessibility Issues at Queen’s Park
Corey Davidson, a Public Administration and Governance student at Ryerson University, shared with us some concerns about accessibility at Queen’s Park: A Clear Message While on a tour of Queen’s Park today, I noticed that…
Practicing Attorneys Don’t Make that Kind of Money
The Wall Street Journal blog interviewed Kirsten Wolf, what they describe as a law-school “naysayer.” They asked her how she liked law school, and although she liked the intellectual aspects of it, she disliked the…