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 Appeals Monitor 2. Librarian of Things 3. SOQUIJ | Le Blogue 4. The Every Lawyer 5. Meurrens on Immigration

Canadian Appeals Monitor
The Court of Appeal for Ontario Clarifies When Interlocutory Orders Can Be Appealed with a Final Order

In Heegsma v. Hamilton (City), the Court of Appeal for Ontario confirmed that parties can appeal interlocutory orders together with a final order if the issues are inextricably linked. Heegsma seems to expand the circumstances in which a party may await the outcome of a proceeding on the merits before seeking to appeal interlocutory orders, in particular interlocutory orders concerning the exclusion of evidence. The Court of Appeal’s decision has potential implications for litigation strategy, particularly in proceedings by way of application. …

Librarian of Things
How I use Zotero + OpenRefine + QuickStatements to create Scholia profiles from Wikidata

INTRODUCTION Wikidata, a knowledge base for structured linked data, provides an open platform for curating scholarly communication data. Because all elements in a Wikidata entry are linked to defining elements and metadata, other web systems can harvest and display the data in meaningful ways. Thus, Wikidata has the capacity to serve as the data source for faculty profiles. Scholia is an example of how third-party tools can leverage the power of Wikidata to provide faculty profiles and bibliographic, data-driven visualizations. …

SOQUIJ | Le Blogue
Refus d’un employeur de réaffecter une travailleuse enceinte à des tâches sécuritaires

Si un employeur refuse d’affecter une travailleuse enceinte à des tâches ne comportant pas de danger pour l’enfant à naître ou pour elle-même, de sorte qu’elle est retirée du travail et reçoit une indemnité de remplacement du revenu (IRR), s’agit-il d’une sanction au sens de l’article 227 de la Loi sur la santé et la sécurité du travail (LSST)? Dans Ville de Québec c. Ouellet, la Cour d’appel a récemment confirmé que le Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT) avait l’obligation d’examiner les motifs d’un tel refus avant de conclure qu’il ne pouvait être assimilé à une sanction imposée à la travailleuse. …

The Every Lawyer
Legislative Reconciliation – Naiomi Metallic on Legislating Indigenous Self-government in Child Welfare

An in-depth look at Bill C-92, an Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, with Professor Naiomi Metallic, which turns into a broader discussion on legislative reconciliation and the ‘braiding together’ of existing legal orders. For those interested in advocacy, Prof. Metallic also makes the case for academia as THE place to change the law, and with it, society. …

Meurrens on Immigration
Responding to Procedural Fairness Letters

Where an applicant submits a complete application, but an immigration officer nonetheless has concerns regarding the merits of it, the immigration officer will often provide a fairness letter to the applicant. This requirement has arisen from Federal Court of Canada jurisprudence which provides that the duty of procedural fairness can require that an applicant be given an opportunity to respond to a decision maker’s concerns when those concerns go beyond simply whether the legislation or related requirements are met on the face of the application. When, for example, the applicant may be unaware of the existence or the basis of the concern, procedural fairness may require prior notice of the concern before a decision is made so that the applicant has an opportunity to try to disabuse the officer of the concern. …

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