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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…
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Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Cop corruption case revived Today the dramatic and costly case against the Toronto drug squad officers see-saws yet again when prosecutors try to revive charges thrown out by a judge in 2008. The charges were…
Canadian Options for American Protectionism
Mitch Potter of the Star reported this week on the increase in protectionism in the U.S., A small army of Canadian diplomats fanned out across Washington today in a full-court press to “contain the contagion”…
Online Privacy: The Noose Tightens
The scholars, captains of industry and champions of justice who compose Law is Cool‘s readership will have long since scoured their online social networks for photos or other items tending to compromise their integrity —…
Sysomos Has Your Info, and Has Some Interesting Results
Yesterday, Nicole Baute of the Toronto Star covered a new social networking analysis company, Sysomos. The Canadian company gathers data from Twitter, Facebook, and 30 million blogs. Yes, 30 million. It’s a new start-up by…
Toronto is Canada’s Safest City?
Below is a rather ironic screenshot from the front page of the Toronto Star’s website just after the release of a report claiming that my beloved Toronto is the safest metropolitan area in Canada. Note…