The Complete Brief
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March 21, 2025
The Friday Brief: Editor-In-Chief's must-read items from this week
Here are my picks for the top stories we published this week.
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March 21, 2025
Feds to crack down on fraudulent chicken imports to protect farmers, consumers
The federal government is taking steps to crack down on the fraudulent misclassification of broiler chicken imports as spent fowl, a practice aimed at avoiding duties and taxes.
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March 21, 2025
SCC upholds 9-0 conviction for indecent assault committed against a young child
Underscoring that adults’ intentional sexual contact with children is a crime, regardless of who physically initiates the contact, the Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously affirmed the indecent assault conviction of a babysitter who induced a five-year-old’s oral contact with what he falsely told her was his “ice-cream” maker.
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March 21, 2025
More on LSO salary controversy | Gary S. Joseph
On March 20, 2025, the Law Society of Ontario treasurer released a statement addressing concerns with the controversy that has arisen around the salary increase granted to the former CEO by the now departed former treasurer. He invited members to provide thoughts and feedback to what appears to be an internal LSO email address. The treasurer addresses the issue of transparency in his statement. In that context I prefer to offer my thoughts in a more transparent form — that is, the legal media.
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March 21, 2025
Attention Walmart shoplifters | Marcel Strigberger
“My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime” — The Mikado
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March 21, 2025
Civil liberties groups say proposed B.C. tariff law ‘power grab’ that raises ‘spectre of monarchy’
A number of civil liberties organizations are raising alarm bells over B.C.’s recently-proposed legislation to deal with the tariff threat coming from the United States, saying it will give the province extraordinary powers to override current laws while raising the spectre of a 16th-century English king famous for his relationships with his six wives.
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March 21, 2025
Two new partners at Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson
Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson (NST) has added Emily Hansen and James Parker as partners at its British Columbia-based firm.
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March 21, 2025
Quebec legislative proposal to create Unified Family Tribunal panned by experts
In its latest effort to revamp family law, Quebec introduced a bill that lays the groundwork to establish a unified family court to curb delays, simplify proceedings, and handle the majority of family legal proceedings, with an eye towards eventually stripping Superior Court of family matters, an undertaking family law experts have panned as ill-conceived and riddled with shortcomings as it is currently drafted.
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March 21, 2025
Ontario law society treasurer pledges change in light of CEO pay controversy
The treasurer of Ontario’s law society has introduced an action plan to reform governance and administrative processes surrounding executive compensation after a controversy over a salary increase for its former CEO.
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March 21, 2025
Saskatchewan investing in community safety via policing, staffing, border security
As part of its 2025-26 budget, Saskatchewan is investing more than $800 million in the areas of policing, prisons, public safety and border security. According to a March 19 news release, the investment will include $679.4 million for the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety; $118.9 million for the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA); and $8.8 million for the Saskatchewan Firearms Office (SFO).