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. Susan On The Soapbox 2. Borderlines Podcast 3. Excess Copyright 4. Legal Feeds 5. Civil Resolution Tribunal blog

Susan On The Soapbox
Happy Labour Day

Yesterday Premier Danielle Smith issued a statement celebrating Alberta Day—a non-stat holiday created by her predecessor Jason Kenney to commemorate the day Alberta became a province—without once mentioning Confederation.Today the UCP government went one better. It issued a Happy Labour Day statement without once mentioning unions. …

Borderlines Podcast
#123 – Spousal Sponsorship Interviews and Appeals, with Raj Sharma

This episode is a historical deep dive on Order in Council PC 1911-1324, an Order in Council from 1911 which stated that for a period of one year black people would not be permitted to immigrate in Canada because the Canadian government deemed them unsuitable to Canada’s climate. I am re-uploading the episode to fix some audio issues and also to add more context on areas that people had questions about. …

Excess Copyright
Fictional, Fulsome, and/or False Fulminations Of And About Blacklock’s

Blacklock’s has announced that it will appeal Justice Roy’s decision of May 31, 2024 in 1395804 Ontario Ltd. (Blacklock’s Reporter) v. Canada (Attorney General), 2024 FC 829 (CanLII). See my recent blog about this here. Here is Blacklock’s Notice of Appeal dated August 30, 2024. This was a very lucid decision about the licit use of a password by a government employee who was just doing her job. The decision carefully balanced the provisions of the Copyright Act dealing with technological protection measures and fair dealing. It must be remembered at all times that, according to no less than the Supreme Court of Canada: ….

Legal Feeds
BC Supreme Court refuses to strike privacy claims of union official

The Supreme Court of British Columbia recently allowed a plaintiff’s claims for privacy breaches under the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection Act to proceed on the basis that these claims were not bound to fail. The plaintiff in this case served as an elected senior steward of a trade union for over a decade. After she lost her bid for re-election, she sued the union, its executive board, and an unnamed individual responsible for leaking a certain report. …

Civil Resolution Tribunal blog
CRT Key Statistics – August 2024

Do you like data? We do! Here’s our monthly report of key statistics. If there’s information you would like to see added to our monthly reports, please contact us. We will consider including it. “Open” includes disputes in screening, negotiation and facilitation, on hold, decision preparation, and adjudication. “Closed” includes withdrawn claims, disputes resolved by agreement, the CRT refused to issue a Dispute Notice, disputes resolved by default or final decision, and other reasons for closure. …

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