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. Global Workplace Insider 2. Vancouver Immigration Law Blog 3. Le Blogue du CRL 4. Canadian Appeals Monitor 5. The Treasurer’s Blog

Global Workplace Insider
La Cour suprême du Canada tranche : les cadres ne pourront se syndiquer au Québec

Le 19 avril dernier, la Cour suprême du Canada a rendu une décision fort attendue en matière de syndicalisation des cadres. Dans l’arrêt Société des casinos du Québec inc. c. Association des cadres de la Société des casinos du Québec[1], la Cour suprême juge que l’exclusion d’une association de cadres de premier niveau du régime du Code du travail du Québec est constitutionnelle et qu’ils n’ont dès lors pas le droit de syndiquer. Il s’agit d’une décision favorable pour les employeurs en ce qu’une décision contraire aurait pu élargir de façon considérable le droit à la syndicalisation au pays. …

Vancouver Immigration Law Blog
The DADM’s Noticeable Silence: Clarifying the Human Role in the Canadian Government’s Hybrid Decision-Making Systems [Law 432.D – Op-Ed 2]

This is part 2 of a two-part series sharing Op-Eds I wrote for my Law 432.D course titled “Accountable Computer Systems.” This blog will likely go up on the course website in the near future but as I am hoping to speak to and reference things I have written for a presentations coming up, I am sharing here, first. This blog discusses the hot topic of ‘humans in the loop’ for automated decision-making systems [ADM]. As you will see from this Op-Ed, I am quite critical of our current Canadian Government self-regulatory regime’s treatment of this concept. …

Le Blogue du CRL
Intact Compagnie d’assurance c. Lavoie, 2024 QCCA 427

ASSURANCE : L’assuré intimé, dont la défense est entièrement couverte par certains assureurs, ne possède pas l’intérêt juridique requis pour présenter une demande de type Wellington afin de forcer la compagnie d’assurance appelante à le défendre et à partager les frais de cette défense avec ces autres assureurs. …

Canadian Appeals Monitor
2024 Canadian Federal Budget Commentary – Tax Initiatives

The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, tabled the Liberal government’s federal budget on April 16, 2024. Fairness for Every Generation (Budget 2024) details the government’s tax measures on a host of items affecting Canadian businesses and their owners, including: …

The Treasurer’s Blog
Equity Advisory Group seeking new members

The Law Society of Ontario is inviting lawyers, paralegals, law students, paralegal students, licensing candidates and representatives of legal organizations and associations to apply for membership in the Equity Advisory Group. The Equity Advisory Group (EAG) represents the diverse interests of lawyers and paralegals who identify as a member of one or more equity-seeking groups. …

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