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 more than 80 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. Welcome to the Food Court 2. BC Provincial Court eNews 3. Risk Management & Crisis Response 4. Canadian Appeals Monitor 5. The Lean Law Firm

Welcome to the Food Court
Health Canada Seeks to Modernize the Lists of Permitted Food Additives

As with any other ingredient, food additives are regulated in Canada under the Food and Drug Regulations (FDRs), and the watchful eye of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Health Canada. Permitted food additives are outlined in the Lists of Permitted Food Additives, which highlight the ingredients a food additive is permitted in or upon, the maximum level of use, and sometimes the permitted source, the purpose of use, or the maximum residue levels. Recognizing that these Lists require modernization, though, to “address barriers to innovation for the food industry” …

BC Provincial Court eNews
It’s the 20th anniversary of the Drug Treatment Court of Vancouver!

On December 4, 2001, the Provincial Court of BC launched Canada’s second drug treatment court. The Drug Treatment Court of Vancouver (DTCV) is a specialized court that uses a problem-solving approach to the criminal process for people who commit offences to support addiction to drugs such as cocaine, heroin, fentanyl or other opiates, and crystal methamphetamine. …

Risk Management & Crisis Response
Ontario Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce elicits potential enforcement changes in proposed Capital Markets Act

The draft of Ontario’s proposed Capital Markets Act includes several recommendations designed to modernize and enhance the OSC’s enforcement powers. In their blog, Osler’s Lawrence E. Ritchie, Sarah Firestone, Jayne Cooke and Zoe Sebastien review some of the notable ways the draft could help to update the province’s capital markets regulatory framework. …

Canadian Appeals Monitor
BC Court of Appeal Confirms Application of Statutory Interpretation Principles in Reasonableness Review, Including Admissibility of Extrinsic Evidence

In English v Richmond (City), 2021 BCCA 442, Justices Frankel and DeWitt-Van Oosten of the British Columbia Court of Appeal (the “BCCA”) considered an appeal from an order requiring the issuance of a building permit for a cannabis greenhouse on land within the provincially regulated Agricultural Land Reserve (“ALR”). ..

The Lean Law Firm
E114: You’ve Worked Hard This Year, Celebrate With Lawyer Bingo!

The end of the year often brings mixed emotions. There’s the excitement of holidays and some well-earned time off. On the other, there’s anxiety that another year has passed. Did you accomplish what you set out to do? Have you made plans for next year? And it’s 2021, so we can’t forget the added stress of a new Covid outbreak. …

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