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Dec 28, 2020
5 min

Righting Rural Inequities in a Post-COVID Canada

Article | A country quiet has fallen on city streets around the world, while calls for social distancing have brought Canadians together ...

Dec 28, 2020
4 min

Fact Check: Municipal Role in COVID-19 Shelter Services

Article | A lively discussion has been playing out on social media about the role of our municipality in the delivery of shelter and supp...

Dec 28, 2020
7 min

Private interests, public forests, and political influence: what Fort Frances learned in 2019

This column originally appeared on NetNewsLedger on January 12, 2020. Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a 1985 indemnity...

Dec 28, 2020
5 min

Myth-Busting on Proposed Single-Use Products Bylaw

Several items which appeared in the Fort Frances Times and Daily Bulletin over the past week contained some misleading information about ...

Dec 28, 2020
4 min

Doug Ford’s confusing case against sex-ed

This column appeared in Xtra. | A legal ménage of gays, gag orders and government gaslighting may disclose the future of the Doug Ford go...

Dec 28, 2020
3 min

How will your resolution tip the scales in 2018?

This article originally appeared in the Fort Frances Times. | Resolution time strikes us at our most complacent and indisposed. It sneaks...

Dec 28, 2020
5 min

The case that comes after Trinity Western

This column appeared in Canadian Lawyer Magazine. | The Supreme Court of Canada is currently penning the final chapter in Trinity Western...

Dec 28, 2020
6 min

Memo to the SCC: There's more to Trinity Western than LGBTQ2 equality

It has been said that hard cases make bad laws. This is the jeopardy facing the Canadian legal profession in late November, when the Supr...

Dec 28, 2020
5 min

Ontario court refuses to lift corporate veil to enforce foreign judgment against Canadian subsidiary

This blog post was originally published by McCarthy Tétrault LLP. | In the latest chapter of the Yaiguaje v. Chevron litigation,[1] the O...

Dec 28, 2020
3 min

Is there a duty of device security? U.S. regulator fires warning shot

This blog post was originally published in CyberLex. | A complaint filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) against D-Link ...

Dec 28, 2020
3 min

Moving Justice Sector Modernization from Platitude to Practice

This column appeared in the newsletter of the Ontario Bar Association's Young Lawyers' Division | Recently I attended an event where a gr...

Dec 28, 2020
4 min

White House says AI impacts remain grey area

This blog post was originally published in CyberLex. | Earlier this month the Executive Office of the President’s National Science and Te...

Dec 28, 2020
4 min

Trinity Western grasps at hypocritical half-truths

This column was co-authored with Paul Jonathan Saguil and appeared in the Huffington Post. | John Carpay's condemnation of the Ontario Su...

Dec 28, 2020
7 min

Will U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Spokeo impact privacy damages in Canada?

This article was co-authored with Kirsten Thompson and originally appeared in CyberLex and the IP Osgoode blog. | The Spokeo decision’s r...

Dec 28, 2020
4 min

Regulators signal increasing interest in the Internet of Things

This article originally appeared in CyberLex. | The ‘Internet of Things’ (or IoT, which we have written about before) is generating fresh...

Dec 28, 2020
4 min

Court applies flexible approach to reformulating classes on G20 certification appeal

This article originally appeared in the Canadian Class Actions Monitor. | On April 6, 2016, the Ontario Court of Appeal (the “OCA”) relea...

Dec 28, 2020
7 min

Employee privacy trumps employer requirement for surnames on nametags

This article originally appeared in CyberLex. | What’s in a name? That which we call employee personal information, perhaps. Prairie Mont...

Dec 28, 2020
4 min

Nova Scotia court recognizes intrusion upon seclusion

This article was co-authored with Kirsten Thompson and originally appeared in CyberLex. | In the recent case of Hemeon v. South West Nova...

Dec 28, 2020
3 min

U.S. automakers take the wheel on cybersecurity – but can Canadian manufacturers hitch a ride?

This article originally appeared in CyberLex. | This summer, U.S. automakers pledged to ramp up motor vehicle cyber protection measures b...

Dec 28, 2020
5 min

TWU believers bear false witness

This column originally appeared in the Canadian Bar Association's National magazine and the Ontario Bar Association's JUST magazine. | In...

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