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. Legal Post Blog 2. Legal Feeds 3. Lawyered Podcast 4. Meurrens on Immigration 5. Library Boy

Legal Post Blog
Canadians should brace for recession because odds are ‘not zero,’ says Stephen Poloz

Former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz sees recession conditions in many parts of the Canadian economy, as growth fails to keep pace with an increasing population. Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 6.4 per cent in June and ticked up again to 6.6 per cent in August. “These are close to around two percentage points above the low point,” Poloz said. “That’s a very decisive recession signal in most situations, many of our normal signals about recession are clouded because of what I mentioned earlier, which is the immigration numbers.” …

Legal Feeds
BC Court of Appeal raises cost of future care award to $55,000 in motor vehicle accident case

The Court of Appeal for British Columbia has set aside a 10-percent negative contingency applied to certain heads of damages awarded in a personal injury case and increased the award for cost of future care to $55,000. The appellant was a licensed optometrist in BC. In March 2016, he sustained injuries when the respondent’s vehicle struck his car from behind. Since the respondent admitted liability for the accident, the determination of damages was the primary issue at trial. …

Lawyered Podcast
94: Gender Equality Law (Pam Hrick) – September 4, 2024

This week, we’re chatting with Pam Hrick – the Executive Director of LEAF – about gender equality law and the progress that remains. Topics: Quebec’s Bill 21 and substantive gender equality; Saskatchewan’s school pronoun policy; and coercive control as a criminal offence. This program contains 30 minutes of substantive content for the Law Society of Ontario’s CPD requirements. …

Meurrens on Immigration
Procedural Fairness Where Credibility is an Issue

In an application to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC“) the burden is on the applicant to put forward a complete, convincing and unambiguous application which provides sufficient evidence to establish that the requirements of Canadian immigration legislation are met. Visa officers are not under an obligation to ask for additional information where the submitted material is insufficient. As well, as demonstrated by the decision in Omitogun v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2024 FC 719, visa officers are under no obligation to review an applicant’s previously submitted applications. …

Library Boy
Canadian Prison Law Conference: Rights, Remedies and Decarceration

The Canadian Prison Law Association is partnering with the Peter A. Allard School of Law to organize the Canadian Prison Law Conference: Rights, Remedies and Decarceration in Vancouver on October 4-6, 2024. The event will include topics such as “Indigenous self-determination and Indigenous justice practices, life sentences, solitary confinement in its many forms, enforcing human rights in places of detention, …

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