Monday’s Mix

Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award­-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from sixty recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible.

This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. PierreRoy & Associés  2. Canadian Securities Law 3. Henry J. Chang’s Canada-US Immigration Blog  4. The Court  5. BC Injury Law and ICBC Claims Blog

PierreRoy & Associés
Déclarer faillite dans le cours d’une proposition de consommateur

Question : Je suis présentement en proposition de consommateur, mais ma situation a changé et mes revenus ont diminué. Faire mes paiements mensuels est de plus en plus difficile et je ne crois pas pouvoir compléter ma proposition. Est-ce que je peux convertir ma proposition de consommateur en faillite? Que puis-je faire? Réponse : Oui, durant votre proposition de consommateur il est possible de déclarer faillite….

Canadian Securities Law
CSA publish 2013-2014 continuous disclosure review

The continuous disclosure review program consisted of 221 full and 770 issue-oriented reviews of reporting issuers. Ultimately, 37% of the reviews resulted in issuers being required to make prospective changes by way of enhancements in future filings, 14% of the reviews resulted in issuers being required to amend or re-file certain disclosure documents, 16% of the reviews resulted in issuers being alerted to areas where disclosure enhancements should be considered…

Henry J. Chang’s Canada-US Immigration Blog
Canadian Government Announces Changes to Temporary Foreign Worker Program

On June 20, 2014, the Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development, and Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced significant changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Prior to these changes, there were essentially two categories of temporary foreign workers – those who required a Labour Market Opinion (“LMO”) and those who were LMO-exempt. The purpose of the LMO was to assess whether issuance of a work permit to the foreign national would have a neutral or positive effect on the Canadian labour market….

The Court
Revisiting Aboriginal Title Part III: SCC Clarification in Tsilhqot’in Nation v British Columbia

On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada released Tsilhqot’in Nation v British Columbia, 2014 SCC 44. This important case, the conclusion of a 30-year legal dispute, now represents the latest and most comprehensive statement of the law of Aboriginal title in Canada. It is also the first successful Aboriginal title claim. By recognizing and affirming the Tsilqot’in Nation’s title to over 1700 square kilometres of territory, the Supreme Court has given full effect to the words of section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. …

BC Injury Law and ICBC Claims Blog
$70,000 Non-Pecuniary Assessment for Chronic Soft Tissue Injuries Perpetuated by Stress

Reasons for judgement were released today addressing damages for lingering soft tissue injuries compounded by pre-existing emotional distress. In today’s case (Adkin v. Grant) the Plaintiff was involved in a 2010 rear end collision. She was 66 at the time of the crash and 69 at the time of trial. She suffered a variety of soft tissue injuries and some of her symptoms continued to the time of trial. A perpetuating factor for this was pre-existing emotional distress which exacerbated her symptoms. …

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*Randomness here is created by Random.org and its list randomizing function.