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June 26, 2024
New public trustee announced for Northwest Territories
R.J. Simpson, the Northwest Territories minister of Justice, announced the appointment of Erin Wagner as the new public trustee of the Northwest Territories. According to a June 25 news release, Wagner’s appointment was effective June 17, 2024.
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June 26, 2024
Legal aid clinic granted intervener status in judicial challenge of law society tribunal ruling
An Ontario court has added a children and youth legal aid clinic as an intervener in the provincial law society’s challenge of a tribunal finding that an applicant for admission to the bar was of good character despite his acknowledging he sexually abused minors, including his own child, in the past.
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June 26, 2024
Importance of social media governance in age of AI | Connie L. Braun and Juliana Saxberg
We are in an era where tweets and other social media messaging very quickly shape public opinion. Hashtags spark movements, campaigns and protests.
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June 25, 2024
Gowling announces new head of litigation group
A recent news release from Gowling WLG announced that Nicolas Kluge had been appointed the new leader of the firm’s commercial litigation group in Canada.
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June 25, 2024
3 judicial appointments announced for Quebec
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani announced in a June 25 press release three judicial appointments in Quebec: Jonathan Coulombe, Justin Roberge and Antoine Aylwin.
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June 24, 2024
Judicial appointment announced for Alberta
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani announced in a June 24 press release the appointment of Karan M. Shaner as a justice of appeal of the Court of Appeal of Alberta in Edmonton.
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June 24, 2024
Judicial appointment in Northwest Territories announced
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani announced in a June 24 press release the appointment of Annie Piché as a judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife.
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June 21, 2024
Public school boards are bound by Charter; tribunals’ Charter rulings reviewed for correctness: SCC
In an important Charter and standard of review case, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that labour arbitrators and other administrative tribunals “should play a primary role” in deciding Charter issues within their bailiwicks — which Charter determinations courts should review on a “correctness” rather than “reasonableness” standard — and that the Charter applies to Ontario public school boards, thereby protecting board employees’ reasonable expectations of privacy in their workplaces and shielding employees from unreasonable search or seizure by their employers.
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June 21, 2024
The Friday Brief: Managing Editor’s must-read items from this week
Here are my picks for the top stories we published this week.
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June 21, 2024
Do vegan weiners pass muster? | Marcel Strigberger
I suppose you’re all wondering about Joey Chestnut? No doubt. Chestnut is the world’s fastest eating hot dog champ. He holds the Guinness record for downing 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Unfortunately Nathan’s Famous hot dogs has banned him from competing in the Coney Island annual July 4th contest. The reason is he apparently signed a deal with Impossible Foods, which makes vegan hot dogs. Nathan’s cites a conflict of interest, and this position is supported by, and I am not making this up, the MLE, to wit the Major League Eating organization which overseas competitive eating events.