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 Feeds 2. The Trauma-Informed Lawyer 3. Michael Geist 4. Double Aspect 5. Timely Disclosure

Legal Feeds
SCC affirms 7-2 that methods of medical treatment cannot be patented in Canada

Methods of medical treatment cannot be patented under Canadian law, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a split decision Friday, affirming Canada’s approach to medical patents for the past half-century. In a blow to Pharmascience Inc., however, the SCC said this principle does not entitle the Quebec-based pharmaceutical company to market a generic version of a Janssen Inc. drug by advising patients to use the latter company’s patented dosing regimens. According to the SCC, Janssen’s dosing regimens do not amount to a method of medical treatment. …

The Trauma-Informed Lawyer
Emotional Justice, Racial Healing and the Work We Must Do with Esther A. Armah

Esther Armah is a Ghanaian-British journalist, playwright, radio host, and creator of the Emotional Justice framework. She is the author of Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing. She joins this episode from Accra, Ghan…

Michael Geist
Why the Government’s Plan for a Social Media Ban in Bill C-34 Is Unconstitutional

The debate over the government’s proposed social media ban for under 16s has raised several difficult questions, including doubts about whether it will work, which services it will cover, and what risks to privacy mandating age verification could create. But beyond the operational questions is a more fundamental one: is the ban constitutional? Bill C-34 contains some signals that the government knows there are serious constitutional vulnerabilities, given the obvious implications for freedom of expression that come from blocking an entire cohort of Canadians from accessing information and expressing themselves on social media. The bill contains several provisions that are seemingly designed to act as safeguards that could be used to argue that the ban is proportionate. …

Double Aspect
Booking – My plan for a forthcoming book on constitutional interpretation in Canada

Some personal news, and of a happier varierty than in my last post (though it won’t be news to those who have seen my posts on Twitter and Bluesky): a couple of weeks ago I signed a contract for what will be my first monograph, to be published by Hart. The (provisional) title is Interpreting the Supreme Law of Canada: Meaning, Purpose, and Principle. The manuscript is due on June 1, 2027 and, if all goes to plan, publication should be in early-ish 2028. And in further news that that I haven’t yet spilled, …

Timely Disclosure
Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Bulletin

Sellers use auctions to create competitive tension in pursuit of better deal value, deal terms, and deal certainty. The sellers’ control over the auction’s timing and process also allows them to plan and deploy a target and market-specific auction strategy. …

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