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. Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog 2. Canadian Privacy Law Blog OK 3. Know How 4. The Docket 5. ABlawg.ca

Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog
More Details on the UFCW-UBER Agreement

In this January 2022 post, I discussed the breaking news that UFCW and UBER Canada had reached some sort of secret deal that involved UBER recognizing UFCW as a representative of UBER drivers in Canada in exchange for UFCW supporting UBER’s lobbying efforts to obtain a watered-down version of legislative employment standards that it calls Flexible Work+. At that time, little was known about the agreement beyond what the parties themselves had publicly disclosed on their websites. In my 2022 post, I set out some of the legal issues that could arise from an agreement like this. The most interesting legal issue I thought related to the fact that, at the time this UFCW-UBER agreement was announced, another union (CUPW) was actively engaged in an organizing campaign of the UBER drivers. …

Canadian Privacy Law Blog OK
Important new Ontario court decision on privilege in incident response documentation

The Ontario divisional court has just released a decision, LifeLabs LP v. Information and Privacy Commr. (Ontario), 2024 ONSC 2194, that should grab the attention of Canadian lawyers who work in cyber incident response. I don’t know whether it will be appealed, but the logic of the decision is pretty sound. But I expect this isn’t over. In a nutshell, after a significant ransomware incident, LifeLabs was assisted by well-known cybersecurity and forensic consultants for the investigation, remediation and negotiation with the ransomware bad guys. …

Know How
House of Bills: May 6-9, 2024

Good morning and welcome to this (impressively punctual!) edition of the House of Bills legislative summary for the May 6-9 session. Click to see the Bill activity that occurred within this time frame: Bill 162, Get It Done Act, 2024, Third Reading vote, carried on division (May 8, 2024) …

The Docket
The Zameer Acquittal

So, episode 141 – a new record. But you know that right? Because you subscribe to the show and have already rated and reviewed the podcast – right? You should. Buckle up for a extra long episode dissecting the acquittal of of Umar Zameer in the death of Toronto police officer Jeffrey Northrup. We take a deep dive into the bail decision, the completely offside comments by politicians, and why the Crown proceeded with a case that was doomed to fail. …

ABlawg.ca
You Shall Not Pass Go: The End of Monopoly (and Self-Governance) for BC Lawyers

What is the difference between a dairy farmer and a lawyer? The most obvious answer might be that one produces a good that has social value, while the other one is a lawyer. A more nuanced answer might be that while Canadian dairy farmers have been extraordinarily successful (or rather notorious) in maintaining their regulation protected monopoly, lawyers, at least in British Columbia, are on the precipice of losing theirs. The object of this short post is to offer some preliminary observations on the BC government’s Bill 21, the proposed new Legal Professions Act, which will do away with the Law Society of BC. …

_________________________

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