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. Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog 2. Sunday Night Administrative Review 3. Global Workplace Insider 4. Eloise Gratton 5. ReconciliAction YEG

Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog
Study Review – Female Contact Sport Athletes Suffer More Concussions With Worse Outcomes Than Men

A recent study was published in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine reviewing recent studies addressing female concussion rates and outcomes compared to males. In the article, titled Concussion in Female Athletes of Contact Sports – A Scoping Review, the authors reviewed 22 studies on the subject published in recent years. In short they found …

Sunday Night Administrative Review
Issue #154: October 6, 2024

Context: Democracy Watch applied for judicial review of a report by the Conflict of Interest Ethics Commissioner, which concluded that PM Trudeau did not violate the Conflict of Interest Act [COIA] when he participated in two decisions involving WE Charity. The applicants had a hurdle to overcome: s.66 of the COIA contains a privative clause barring review (except on grounds listed in the Federal Courts Act). …

Global Workplace Insider
The new Employment Rights Bill: What does it mean for employers?

On 10 October, the Government published the Employment Rights Bill 2024 (the Bill). The Bill contains significant reforms to employment rights and has been hailed as being a “once in a generation” change to the employment rights of workers. Its aim is to “deliver economic security and growth to businesses, workers and communities across the UK”. There are 28 individual employment reforms contained in the Bill and further detail on many of these will be provided through regulations. …

Eloise Gratton
CAI 2023-2024 Annual Activity and Management Report

The Commission d’accès à l’information (CAI) which is the privacy regulator in Québec recently released its 2023-2024 Annual Activity and Management Report. The following information may be of interest: The CAI’s primary focus for privacy sector compliance has been on handling complaints related to access and rectification requests. Between April 2023 and March 2024, the CAI received 503 complaints regarding access and rectification requests and addressed 377 of them. …

ReconciliAction YEG
“Attainable Justice”: R v Skibicki and Murdered Indigenous Women

n a recent Manitoba case, Jeremy Skibicki was convicted of having killed four Indigenous women on July 11, 2024. [1] The Crown proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Skibicki murdered Buffalo Woman, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and Rebecca Contois. [2] The victims’ friends and family attended the trial everyday, and Justice Joyal acknowledged the impact of the prosecution on Manitobans. …

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