More on Ontario Ombudsman
Ombudsman urges career college crackdown The press-release. Our previous post on Ontario Ombudsman is here.
Administrative Law
Return of the Sock Puppets
Ontario PC Leader Tom Hudak is expected to campaign on disbanding the Ontario Human Rights Commission, so we’ll probably hear a lot more about them in the coming months. And all the familiar figures will…
Ontario Ombudsman
The office of Ontario Ombudsman is on Twitter and Facebook. The Ombudsman is a pretty unique independent oversight officer accountable directly to the provincial legislature. He investigates people’s complaints under the authority granted by the…
My Day with George Galloway
George Galloway, the controversial British MP scheduled to speak in Canada this week, and parties supporting him, sought an injunction at the Federal Court today. Although I don’t agree with everything Mr. Galloway says, his…
Law 101 for Health Care Professionals
Fourth post in a series on the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference. Elyse Sunshine of Gardiner Roberts provided health care professionals the basics of the regulatory scheme governing the health sector in Ontario.
Dr. Sarita Verma at the Health Law Conference
First post in a series on the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference. Dr. Sarita Verma, Deputy Dean of Graduate Postgraduate education at UofT Medicine, is a family physician who originally trained as a lawyer…
First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference
The First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference is being held this morning at UofT law. The session is being broadcasted live to viewers across the world. Notes from the session can be found below. Dr….
Maisonneuve Article Online
We’ve mentioned several times now the piece by Pearl Eliadis on Human Rights Commissions in the Montreal magazine Maisonneuve. The article is now available online.
Public speech has real consequences
Available online at The Star Phoenix Consequences of public speech real Kashif Ahmed, Special to the StarPhoenix Friday, November 14, 2008 The recent decision by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal to dismiss a complaint…
Obama Win Might be a Boon for Law Firms
Carolyn Elefant thinks that some law firms are going to see a major increase in business as a result of this week’s election. Obama is expected to increase regulation in a number of areas, including…
Closure to the Free Speech Debate?
We are fairly confident that many of our readers are well aware that the CIC v. Maclean’s case has been officially closed (at least at this point in time; an appeal is still a legal…
Pearl Eliadis Defends Human Rights Commissions
With the recent decision of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in the popularly known Maclean’s Magazine case looming in the midst, and with its final pronouncement sure to rehash frenzied and vociferous chatter over…