Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction Steve Moore grew up in Thornhill, Ontario. After graduating high school in 2001, he played hockey with Harvard University for a few years. In the 2003-04 season, he broke through to sign with the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL), playing defense on the third and fourth lines. In a game on […]
Post-Employment Legal Obligations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction As with most relationships, employment relationships end. This may be by mutual parting, the employee quitting, or the employee being dismissed. The end of a relationship can mean that a few legal obligations continue. In this article, we briefly discuss the three principal post-employment obligations of workers. 1. Confidentiality Agreements Employees often come into […]
Casey Hill and the Church of Scientology
Reading Time: 4 minutes Freedom of speech, like the other fundamental freedoms, is freedom under the law, and over the years the law has maintained a balance between, on the one hand, the right of the individual … whether he is in public life or not, to his unsullied reputation if he deserves it, and on the other hand […]
Online Resources for Dispute Resolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Maybe it’s a dispute between neighbours. Or a conflict at work. Or a change to child custody arrangements. Tempers flare, things escalate and the next thing you know you’re headed for court. Regardless of your legal problem, once you’ve entered the court system, things become much more complex and you may have much less control […]
Anti-spam Law May Snare Charities
Reading Time: 4 minutes Those of us who work for charities are probably as accustomed as anyone to getting unsolicited emails asking for funding or other support. Even in the occasional cases where these requests are genuine, rather than scams or trickery, the sender often hasn’t taken the time to even check if what’s being sought is within the […]
Getting Your Security Deposit Back
Reading Time: 2 minutes You’ve moved all of your stuff out of the place you were renting, you handed your keys back to the landlord, and you completed the last inspection of the property. A few weeks go by, and you realize that you haven’t received your security deposit back from your landlord. What should you do? As a […]
Standing Up for Your Rights
Reading Time: 5 minutes Standing is a legal principle that addresses who is entitled to bring a case before the court for a decision. Although standing (in a legal sense) may sound like a technical legal issue, it is very important to rights litigation in Canada. After the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) was passed in 1982, […]
Protection and Prosecution: Falling at Work
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction Just before Christmas 2009, Mr. Murgappa Naiker died instantly after falling 18.5 feet from an open bucket while de-icing an airplane at the Calgary airport. He was not wearing his safety harness. He had 17 years experience as a de-icing ramp agent and had completed updated safety training two months earlier. His employer, Servisair, […]
The Supreme Court Changes Direction: Disability and Discrimination
Reading Time: 3 minutes The case law on disability and discrimination has had its highs and lows over the past decade and a half. A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, Moore v British Columbia (Education) 2012 SCC 61 (“Moore”), provides hope for those with disabilities, particularly learning disabilities, and their families. First, it should be noted […]
Relocation Advisory Guidelines – an idea whose time has come?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Law professor Nicholas Bala of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, took a close look at 750 Canadian cases1 where one parent asked for the court’s permission to move a child against the other parent’s wishes. Even though mobility cases seem ‘rule-less’ and the decisions give the impression of being arbitrary, he did identify 13 patterns […]
