Friday, September 27, 2019 @ 10:36 AM
Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2019 @ 7:08 PM
The Supreme Court of Canada has provided its first guidance on how to apply a 2017 law protecting journalists’ confidential sources in a ruling which reaffirms unanimously that courts can only order disclosure of such sources “as a last resort.” ... [read more]
Friday, September 27, 2019 @ 11:41 AM
Newfoundland’s government has taken a “strong step backward” in transparency, accountability and people’s right to access information by barring the province’s privacy watchdog from reviewing documents deemed confidential due to solicitor-client privilege, says an expert. ... [read more]
Friday, September 27, 2019 @ 9:03 AM
The Ontario government’s move to allow community housing providers to turn away prospective tenants who have been evicted from housing for committing a crime is raising alarm bells for lawyers and academics, who call the new policy disturbing and “terrible.” ... [read more]
Thursday, September 26, 2019 @ 5:33 PM
Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2019 @ 12:38 AM
In its first judgment on Crown copyright, the Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously upheld the summary dismissal of a breach of copyright class action launched in 2007 by Ontario’s land surveyors, whose plans of survey filed with the provincial land registry system are being sold online by a commercial database, on Ontario’s behalf, without payment to the surveyor-creators. ... [read more]
Thursday, September 26, 2019 @ 11:31 AM
A man in British Columbia has been acquitted of sexual assault after arguing he was asleep at the time and unaware of what he was doing, a condition sometimes described as “sexsomnia.” The incident in question occurred in December 2012, in which the man had sex with his female partner over her objections. ... [read more]
First Nations and the business of cannabis | Pamela Palmater
