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. Le Blogue du CRL 2. Barry Sookman 3. The Lean Law Firm 4. Legal Post Blog 5. OsgoodePD Blog

Le Blogue du CRL
Répit-Ressource de l’Est de Montréal c. Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, 2025 QCCA 1306

TRAVAIL : La Cour du Québec n’a pas erré en concluant qu’un employeur avait contrevenu à l’article 41.1 L.N.T. en versant une somme additionnelle aux salariés qui étaient disponibles 30 heures et plus par semaine, la disponibilité d’un salarié faisant intrinsèquement partie de son statut d’emploi. 2025EXPT-2084** Intitulé : Répit-Ressource de l’Est de Montréal c. Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, 2025 QCCA 1306 Juridiction : Cour d’appel (C.A.), Montréal Décision de : …

Barry Sookman
Technology Law Updates from the CAN-TECH Conference

I was pleased to speak on October 24 at the Canadian Technology Law Association (CAN-TECH) Fall Conference in Toronto. CAN-TECH is the national association representing Canadian technology lawyers. I participated in a panel alongside Catherine Lovrics (Marks & Clerk LLP) and Jenna Wilson (Wilson Lue LLP), moderated by Lisa Wallace (WeirFoulds LLP).My talk was a follow up and update to my annual Toronto Computers Lawyers Group “Year in Review” of technology law talk. My talk covered a wide range of topics with a special focus on artificial intelligence, technology and online contracting, privacy and copyright. …

The Lean Law Firm
E249: ClioCon 2025 – How AI Is Redefining the Future of Legal Work (Part 1)

The 2025 Clio Conference in Boston made one thing abundantly clear: we’re standing on the threshold of a new era in legal practice. You’re probably thinking, “sure, I’ve heard that before,” and you’re right. You have. This time, however, the message felt different. The keynotes and sessions focused heavily on AI opportunities and solutions…yet the problems people shared with us at our booth remained, for the most part, entirely human. …

Legal Post Blog
Boardroom boot camp: a three-part series on solving Canada’s productivity woes, one workplace at a time

Walk into almost any Canadian workplace today, public or private, corporate or not-for-profit, and you will encounter the same invisible contagion: a quiet, polite, bureaucratic mediocrity. No one says it out loud, but everyone feels it. Meetings multiply. Decisions stall. Deadlines slip. Excuses flourish. And those responsible for the failure rarely face consequences. It is not inflation, technology or foreign competition that poses the greatest risk to Canadian prosperity. It is the erosion of accountability. …

OsgoodePD Blog
New OsgoodePD courses fill a gap in municipal law education

Two brand new OsgoodePD programs will fill a longstanding gap in the continuing education offering available to municipal law professionals. Jason Reynar, one of three program directors for the OsgoodePD’s Foundations in Municipal Law and Governance and the Osgoode Certificate in Municipal Law and Governance, earned an LLM with a specialization in municipal law early in his career, but says the lack of other dedicated programs is a common topic of conversation whenever he gets together with colleagues in the field. …

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