An unnamed Palestinian official familiar with the mediation efforts expressed cautious optimism to the Reuters news agency

Israeli warplanes have attacked targets in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, after a rocket was launched towards the Ein Hashlosha kibbutz in Israel on Friday, the IDF has said.

The Israeli army said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, that the rocket fell in an area near the border fence between Israel and southern Gaza.

Ex-presidentas former communications director says Access Hollywood tape awas a crisisa for his campaign

Hope Hicks, Donald Trumpas 2016 campaign press secretary, broke into tears on Friday while testifying in the ex-presidentas New York criminal hush-money trial, hours after she described his complete control over the campaign.

Hicks, who cut a skittish figure in Judge Juan Merchanas courtroom, is a key prosecution witness. She described Trump campaign staffersa panic when a recording emerged in which Trump bragged about groping women. aThis was a crisisa for his presidential bid, she said, describing the sentiment among the campaign staff.

The man, Marc Shultz, posted multiple comments last October under two separate YouTube livestream videos

A California man has been charged with sending death threats to Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney who is overseeing the Georgia prosecution against Donald Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.

The man, Marc Shultz, suggested that Willis awill be killed like a doga in one of several comments he posted under two separate YouTube live streams, according to the US attorneyas office for the northern district of Georgia.

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Mikel Arteta is in his seat, black-clad and quite impassive. His childhood pal Andoni Iraola is in black too.

aLooking forward to your MBM for the game,a says Vaibhav Raghunandan, aas Iam stuck on a train from Amsterdam to Berlin which has been delayed by an hour due to some trouble on the track. (Not the first time Iave been on a train to Germany with a delay. Efficient = not.) Hoping for a sufficiently easy Arsenal win a love the Basque connection and the beautiful story, but this is about breaking a petrostateas hegemony.a

Actor brings force of Hollywood to trumpet Bidenas legislative record in briefing that both delighted and bemused journalists

aYou will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.a But enough about Washington. The Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who once saw off gangsters at a fictional spaceport, came to the US capital on Friday for a meeting with Joe Biden.

Quite why he was in the Oval Office, and what was talked about, remained something of a mystery. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Biden was riding high in the opinion polls but now, perhaps, he is in need of added star power.

Third-party hospitality packages are outlawed, yet agency part-owned by associates of Rafael Nadal and LeBron James promises access to top events as well as to stars

Members of the global super-rich are spending as much as $500,000 (APS400,000) on aultra-exclusivea packages for the Paris 2024 Olympics that promoters claim include meeting athletes, access to the athletesa village and athe chance to be part of the opening ceremonya.

GR8 Experience, an ainternational experience agencya part-owned by the business manager of the basketball star LeBron James and the PR manager of the tennis player Rafael Nadal, is selling Olympic packages that it claims include tickets to 14 events such as the menas 100m finals and the opening ceremony for $381,600.

Chinaas president arrives as EU anti-subsidy investigations and tensions over espionage, Ukraine and Taiwan continue

Chinaas president, Xi Jinping, is to visit Europe next week for the first time in five years, in a tour that will take in the unlikely trifecta of France, Hungary and Serbia.

The visit comes as China pushes to avoid a trade war with the EU, while attitudes towards Beijing in the bloc are hardening after multiple spying scandals and Chinaas ongoing support for Russia in the war in Ukraine.

Prime minister said there were acredible allegationsa that India was behind killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Canadian police have charged three members of an alleged hit team for their role in the assassination of the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the first arrests in a high-profile killing that officials believe was masterminded by India.

The arrests come nearly a year after the prominent activist was killed in the parking lot of the Guru Nanak Sikh gurdwara on the evening of 18 June in the city of Surrey, British Columbia. In what investigators previously described as a carefully orchestrated operation, two assailants fired about 50 bullets at Nijjar and escaped the area in a grey car.

Congress partyas Arun Reddy held over fake video of interior minister Amit Shah

Indian police have said they have arrested the social media chief of the countryas main opposition party over a doctored video widely shared during the ongoing national election.

Arun Reddy of the Congress party was detained late on Friday in connection with the edited footage, which falsely shows Indiaas powerful interior minister, Amit Shah, vowing in a campaign speech to end affirmative action policies for millions of poor and low-caste Indians.

Texas Democrat says he and his also accused wife are innocent amid claims they took money from Azerbaijan and Mexican bank

The US justice department on Friday accused the Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, of accepting about $600,000 in bribes in exchange for influencing policy in favor of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank.

The Cuellars had made their first appearance before a federal magistrate judge in Houston by the afternoon, but it was not clear how they pleaded. Earlier, the congressman, who has represented a swath of Texasas border with Mexico in the US House since 2005, issued a statement denying unspecified aallegationsa against him.

The seaside tourist community, like the southern state as a whole, has seen huge demographic change since 2020

The area around Wilmington, North Carolina, was once rock-ribbed Republican red. No longer. Itas contested territory in what may be the most contested state in the country this year.

Donald Trump had planned a rally in Wilmington earlier this month but was rained out at the last moment. Trump promised to return with a bigger and better rally later. Joe Biden visited Wilmington on Thursday, after a detour to Charlotte to meet with the families of four law enforcement officers killed on Monday while serving an arrest warrant. It was his second visit to North Carolina this year and is unlikely to be his last.

While semesters at other schools speed toward a violent close, several universities have sought a more amicable solution

For about a week, the cluster of tents raised by students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, stood in solidarity with Palestinian civilians in Gaza and with students protesting at other campuses across the US.

Then, on Tuesday, the tents quietly vanished from the grassy quad at the heart of campus. There were no riot-gear-clad crackdowns from police and no assaults from masked groups to spur disbandment. Instead, Brown chose a different path: it negotiated.

The emergence of trillions of cicadas is under way in parts of the US a what should you do when theyare around, and what on earth are azombiea cicadas?

The cicadas are arriving. The periodic emergence of trillions of cicadas, on a scale not seen in several hundred years, is under way in parts of the US, with several states reporting the orange-eyed insects are bursting from their underground dormancy.

Cicadas have started arriving earlier than expected in Illinois, a cicada hotspot this year, while there are reports of swarms emerging in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, along with some other states.

For two years, a viral joke mocking the singeras dancing threatened to overshadow her record-breaking success a but the laser-focused star had the last laugh. And now she has her sights set on building a media empire

The London hotel room is huge, with a grand piano in one corner. In the middle is a stash of crisps, nuts and drinks, laid out as if we were in a high-end store. And on a sofa I can just about make out Dua Lipa, lost in the vastness. She could be a top footballer a red hair tied back, fresh-faced, wearing black tracksuit bottoms and a striped top. Iam trying to think what club it is. Barcelona?

She laughs. aNo, I designed it. Itas merch.a I look closely. On the front, it says Training Season a the title of the second single from her forthcoming album, Radical Optimism. Ah, that makes sense; she is playing for FC Dua Lipa. Over the next hour, Lipa makes it clear that sheas a devoted fan of FC Dua Lipa, gives her all to it, and can only see it growing exponentially. Something I wouldnat dare to disagree with.

At 84, The Handmaidas Tale author is as outspoken as ever. She talks about aging, culture wars - and why athe orange guya canat be allowed back into the White House

aIam the great sage on top of the mountain,a Margaret Atwood says with a smile, on a video call from her home in Toronto. aIf youave lived to a certain age people think you know something because they havenat got�there yet.a

At 84, most writers could be forgiven for taking it easy, but especially Atwood, after a tumultuous few years that�have seen The Handmaidas Tale become a hit TV series; the publication of its long-awaited sequel The Testaments, joint winner of the Booker prize in 2019; and the death of her partner of nearly 50 years, novelist Graeme Gibson. He died of a stroke two days after the UK launch of the novel, and Atwood, with typical grit, carried on with the tour.

I love intercourse a so why has it been so long since I actually had any?

I first had sex when I was 16; I have since had quite a few people inside my body. Some were more welcome than others a like the surgeon who removed my inflamed appendix, and that incredibly hot Dutch photographer in a Utrecht Airbnb, to whom I would have given my appendix, had he asked. Others have only penetrated me with their words or in my fantasies. Some of the experiences feel unreal, like the guy who referred to himself as aBig Mikea and claimed that he was moving to Finland the next day, despite there being no packed moving boxes or suitcases in his house. I�wouldnat be able to pick him out of a lineup today.

I am torn between two different versions of that story. In one, I was twentysomething, wild, confident and single. I met a hot guy in a bar and we went back to his place. He read me some of his poems, I elegantly undressed and we had sex. Twice. The next day, when I was deliciously hungover, I revelled in the fact that we didnat even exchange phone numbers, as if I was in Sex and the City.

Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset a| Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? Thereas only one way to find out: ask a believer

I am a conspiracy theorist. I believe that groups of people conspire secretly against our interests to line their pockets, cover their backs or achieve political goals. By this definition I suspect you are, too. We see evidence of these conspiracies every day. We see them in the Horizon scandal, in which the Post Office kept prosecuting innocent operators. We see them in the governmentas use of a aVIPa lane for procuring PPE from friends and donors at extortionate prices. We see them in the Windrush scandal, in which people were denied their legal rights and unlawfully deported by the UK government. In the Cambridge Analytica scandal: a secretive micro-targeting campaign likely to have influenced the Brexit vote. In the Panama Papers and the Pandora Papers, showing how the ultra-rich hide their money from taxes and legal scrutiny.

All these are conspiracies in the true sense: hidden machinations that advance particular interests while causing harm to others. A theory is a rational explanation, subject to disproof. If you accept these scandals are the result of hidden machinations, which they evidently are, you are a conspiracy theorist.

Scott, 26, a teacher, meets Maria, 30, a freelance graphic designer

What were you hoping for?
Small plates and big chat.

For 30 years, Brian McNeill hunted the worldas second-biggest fish from small boats off the wild west coast of Ireland. Now the species has made a recovery so rapid it has astounded scientists

The ambush was simple. A spotter on a hill would scan the sea and when he saw the big black fins approach, he would shout down to the boatmen. They would ready their nets and quickly row out to the kill zone.

When a shark got tangled in the mesh, Brian McNeill would wait a minute or two while it struggled, then steady himself and raise his harpoon. This was the crucial moment. The creature would be diving and thrashing, desperate to escape. If the blade hit the gills blood would spurt, clouding the water. The trick was to hit a small spot between the vertebrae.

Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom

Traditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in India, Iran and Pakistan.

For millennia, Parsi communities have traditionally disposed of their dead in structures called dakhma, or atowers of silencea. These circular, elevated edifices are designed to prevent the soil, and the sacred elements of earth, fire and water, from being contaminated by corpses.

Consequences of sharing nude images and subsequent threat of blackmail can be devastating. Talk to your child, say experts

aIam naked on cam now Iall call you. Answer the call donat be shy.a

The teenage boy did as he was told by the girl he had been chatting with over social media. The next message was chilling: aIf you donat want to get into trouble, you better listen. Iave enough to destroy you.a

Protests are part of nationwide movement pushing universities to divest from businesses that support the war in Gaza

As the sun rose on a campus littered with wreckage, pro-Palestine protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles, were still facing off with lines of riot cops and chanting aWeare not leaving!a

Police had cleared UCLAas student encampment in a late-night operation, and arrested at least 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators early on Thursday morning . The schoolas student newspaper said ahundredsa had been arrested, including students and faculty.

Tourists delighted as pinnipeds congregate at cityas Pier 39, apparently attracted by feast of anchovies

More than 1,000 sea lions have gathered at San Franciscoas Pier 39 this spring, the largest herd in at least 15 years.

Mounds of floppy, delightfully ungraceful marine mammals have plopped themselves on to rafts along the cityas pier, displaying themselves to the thousands of tourists who pass by the area each day.

Researchers visited the Chicago Cafe to find out if itas really 121 years old a and entered a chop suey parlor filled with memories

On a warm morning in March, a group of researchers entered an unassuming chop suey parlor in the Sacramento suburbs for a rare field trip.

The six history enthusiasts affiliated with the University of California, Davis, had gathered at the Chicago Cafe in Woodland, California, with one goal in mind: to determine the exact age of what may be the oldest Chinese restaurant in the country.

Workers removed remnants of the Gaza encampment while pieces of plywood painted with aWe love you Gazaa lay about

At the University of California in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, staff were picking up the pieces after two nights of violence that shocked the urban campus.

A loader heaved the remnants of the Gaza protest encampment that law enforcement had forcefully cleared early in the morning into a large grey dumpster. Pieces of plywood spray-painted with aWe love you Gazaa and aACABa (aall cops are bastardsa) still lay about.

Students across the US are forging bonds in the face of brutal power structures. You might say theyave already won

Teaching an undergraduate class on democracy at Princeton Universityas School of Public and International Affairs this semester has felt urgent and clarifying. In the classroom, weave been looking at backsliding and the slow corrosion of democratic norms in so-called democratic countries. Meanwhile, whatas been happening outside the classroom in more than 120 universities around the US and the world tells us a more ominous story about democracy.

For two weeks, we focused on the United States; there were lively discussions on political polarization, January 6 and the threat posed by supporters of Donald Trump, as well as how robust or fragile US democracy currently is. Looking at each democracy involved criticism of the state. In the class on Israel, we examined, among other areas, controversial proposed judicial reforms, as well as the incarceration of Palestinian minors held in administrative detention, as examples where democratic values might be defined as absent.

I get advice about my age on social media (not all of it friendly), but Iam sanguine about life without youthful anxieties

How old is old? That depends on how old you are, for as you age you will nudge that number upwards. A recent German study asked people over the age of 40 that same question eight times over a period of 25 years, and it found aolda gets older as we age. Of course it does. Would Paul McCartney, fit at 81A3/4, choose 64 now as the time head need feeding? Jumpina Jack Flash at 80 is as lithe and frisky as ever, but only a halfway Dorian Grey, young in limb, but a face as raddled as that portrait: is Mick Jagger old yet?

I am 77: I and my friends contemplate our age all the time. How old are we, exactly? I can feel like Methuselah, mentioning to some bright young spark that the first election I covered as an Observer reporter was 1970, or that I remember the old kingas funeral, or that I had a dollas ration book (sweet rationing lasted until 1953), or how the great smog of London of 1952 that killed 4,000 knocked me down with bronchitis, inhaling Friarsa Balsam under a towel. Thatas old, isnat it?

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

The scenes in Florida of frantic and overcrowded clinics are a grim preview of the future that apro-lifersa want for women

A Womanas Choice, an abortion clinic in Jacksonville, usually sees somewhere between 10 and 15 patients a day. But last week, they extended their hours. On Monday, they scheduled somewhere between 70 and 80 patients, according to the Washington Post. The president of one reproductive health center spoke of warning her incoming patients about the scenes they would encounter at Floridaas abortion clinics. aWeare telling them, aHey, itas going to be busy,aa said Kelly Flynn.

For some, a deadline loomed after an anxious period of trying to scrape together the funding for the care they need: one doctor recalled calling patients who had delayed their appointments a in most cases because they hadnat been able to secure enough money for the procedure yet a and reminding them that they donat have much more time. For other women, a sudden realization led to a last-minute scramble. aOne patient this morning told me that she had just gone for a regular doctoras appointment last week and found out she was pregnant,a a clinician told the Florida news radio station WOKV.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

In 1985, Columbia students occupied campus to push for divestment from South Africa. Five months later, the university cut ties to the apartheid regime after years of dragging its feet

As three former 1980s student leaders at Columbia University, we applaud the courage and conviction of Palestine solidarity student activists in the eye of the storm. Despite the recent arrest of more than 100 protesters, they insist: aDisclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!a

We defend their right to protest and affirm the righteousness of their demands: an end to Israelas genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and to the complicity of the US government and institutions in its apartheid and ethnic cleansing. The international court of justiceas recent ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians makes divestment a legal, not just ethical, obligation.

Each Friday, we share the latest job listings from Slaw Jobs, which features employment opportunities from across the country. Find out more about these positions by following the links below, or learn how you can use Slaw JobsA to gain valuable exposure for your job ads, while supporting the great Canadian legal commentary at Slaw.ca.

Current postings on Slaw Jobs:

• Staff Lawyer | Westbank, BC
  (BC First Nations Justice Council)
• Director of Policing, Oversight and Accountability | Head Office in Westbank or any Indigenous Justice Centre, Canada
  (BC First Nations Justice Council)
• Family LawyerA (Full-time) | Chilliwack, BC
  (Waterstone Law

. . . [more]

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Many law firms are successful by accident.

Anyone who knows anything about traditional law firm structures knows they are perilously fragile. It doesnat take much to bring them down.

Up until this latest debacleathe 2024 collapse of Minden GrossaCanadaas highest-profile law firm failures were Heenan Blaikie in 2014, Goodman and Carr in 2007, and Holden Day Wilson in 1996.

Canadian law firms are not alone in this plight. For exampleaand this is only a small samplingalawyer exits and merger failure brought down U.S.-based Stroock & Stroock & Lavan at the end . . . [more]

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When a party fails to abide by an interlocutory court order, there can be several consequences. For instance in Ontario, Rule 60.12 of the Rules of Civil Procedure states that “…the court may, in addition to any other sanction provided by these rules, (a) stay the partyas proceeding; (b) dismiss the partyas proceeding or strike out the partyas defence; or (c) make such other order as is just.”

In the recent case, Buduchnist Credit Union Limited v. 2321197 Ontario Inc., 2024 ONCA 57 at para 53, the Ontario Court of Appeal reaffirms that the court’s discretion to respond . . . [more]

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Everyone is the poet of their memories. … But like the best poems, they’re also never really finished because they gain new meaning as time reveals them in different lights.

Richard Hell

The resolution of disputes does not always depend on the memories of parties or witnesses, but when credibility is at issue the memories of actions can be a critical part of resolving disputes. The more we learn about how memories are formed, and more importantly, how they are retained, the more we should have real concerns about the ability of decision-makers to assess credibility of testimony of events . . . [more]

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It stated that if you wake up with the sun, you are still asleep. However if you awaken the sun, then you are truly awake.

I had to read it a few times to actually understand itas meaning, but then I realized that what this means, is that the way our day develops is completely up to us.

If we set an intention for the day to unfold in a calm and peaceful manner, knowing that we are fully capable of dealing with whatever challenges may arise, . . . [more]

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One way of forcing Google to return only the words you are searching for is to put quotation marks around the words or phrases you want. Another way is to use Googleas verbatim option.

To use the verbatim option, go to the Tools option on the Google search page. Click on All Results and then select Verbatim. . . . [more]

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This week the randomly selected blogs are 1.A Global Workplace Insider 2. Vancouver Immigration Law Blog 3. Le Blogue du CRL 4.A Canadian Appeals Monitor 5. The Treasureras Blog

Global Workplace Insider
La Cour suprAame du Canada tranche : les cadres ne pourront se syndiquer au QuA(c)bec

Le 19 avril dernier, la Cour suprAame du . . . [more]

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PANAL (DROIT) : L’appel de la dA(c)claration de dA(c)linquant dangereux prononcA(c)e A l’endroit de l’accusA(c) est rejetA(c), et ce, bien que le juge de premiA"re instance ait mal A(c)noncA(c) l’A(c)tat du droit et que la structure du jugement de dA(c)termination de la peine soit critiquable; la Cour n’y voit aucune . . . [more]

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Big Data. Edited by Benoit Leclerc & Jesse Cale. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. 148 p. Includes illustrations, bibliographic references, and index. Criminology at the Edge series. ISBN 9781138492783 (hardcover) $136.00; ISBN 9781032336992 (softcover) $42.36; ISBN 9781351029704 (eBook) $42.36.

Reviewed by Matthew Renaud
Law Librarian,
E.K. Williams Law Library, University of Manitoba . . . [more]

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The British Columbia legal professionas leading organizations (the Law Society, the Canadian Bar Associationas BC branch, and the Trial Lawyersa Association of BC) strongly oppose Bill 21, with the . . . [more]

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Through technology, counsel can now utilize a variety of demonstrative aids . . . [more]

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We have both written previously on myths and stereotypes about intimate partner violence (IPV), one of the most common of which is that women make false or exaggerated claims of violence to gain an advantage in family law disputes (see here and here). In KMN v SZM, 2024 BCCA 70 (CanLII), the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) recognized the existence of this myth and the need for courts to avoid making assumptions that perpetuate it, holding that it is . . . [more]

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This week the randomly selected blogs are 1.A Dooreyas Workplace Law Blog 2. Lash Condo Law 3. Canadian Appeals Monitor 4. Family LLB 5. Avoid a Claim

Dooreyas Workplace Law Blog
SCC: Exclusion of Managers from Labour Legislation Not a Charter Violation

The Supreme Court of Canada released a much anticipated but under the radar . . . [more]

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PANAL (DROIT) : La juge de premiA"re instance n’a pas errA(c) en dA(c)terminant que la caractA(c)ristique dominante de la poupA(c)e en silicone que possA(c)dait l’accusA(c) est une reprA(c)sentation des organes sexuels et de la rA(c)gion anale d’une enfant dans un but sexuel, ce qui constitue du matA(c)riel de pornographie juvA(c)nile . . . [more]

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Because McMurtry . . . [more]

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Current postings on Slaw Jobs:

• Director of Policing, Oversight and Accountability | Head Office in Westbank or any Indigenous Justice Centre, Canada
  (BC First Nations Justice Council)
• Family LawyerA (Full-time) | Chilliwack, BC
  (Waterstone Law Group LLP)
• AccountantA (Full-time) | Chilliwack, BC
  (Waterstone Law Group

. . . [more]

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INTRODUCTION

Webber Academy (or athe schoola), a private educational institution in Alberta, defined itself as non-denominational: it did not engage in any overt religious practice (with one possible and qualified exception). Yet, after two Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) decisions, two Queenas Bench (as it then was) (QB) judgements, two Court of Appeal (CA) rulings and two denial of leaves to appeal by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), it was held to have discriminated without justification against two Muslim students whom it prohibited from engaging, on school property, in overt prayers. How did this happen? And what does it . . . [more]

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Written by Daniel Standing, LL.B., Content Editor, First Reference Inc.

The Supreme Court of British Columbia rendered a decision (2024 BCSC 55 (CanLII)) on judicial review which looked at the employer’s choice to implement a COVID-19 vaccination policy, and whether, under the Labour Relations Code, it was obligated to enter into discussions with the union first. The case provides employers with insight into the difficulty of overturning a tribunal’s decision.

Background

The workplace was a provincially run rapid transit company. The Court considered a union’s petition for judicial review of a decision by the British Columbia Labour . . . [more]

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While weare all aware that there are substantive differences between Canadian law and the law of other jurisdictions, itas much easier to forget that the practice of law varies just as much from nation to nation. Thereas more than one way to do almost anything, and the Canadian legal system is founded on a very specific set of choices, norms, and traditions.

Upon arriving in Canada from her native Australia, and despite her . . . [more]

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The Facts

The Calgary City Police were investigating fraud in online liquor sales and came across a payment processor who processed the suspect transactions. . . . [more]

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PANAL (DROIT) : Dans le cadre de l’affaire du meurtre de Guylaine Potvin, le tribunal dA(c)clare recevable le tA(c)moignage d’une biologiste judiciaire A titre de tA(c)moin expert concernant l’utilisation du nouvel outil d’enquAate dA(c)signA(c) comme le A<> et ses rA(c)sultats.

IntitulA(c) :A R. c. Grenon, 2024 QCCS 551
Juridiction . . . [more]

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Written by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, Content Editor, First Reference Inc.

In January 2024, a British Columbia labour arbitrator had no hesitation concluding that an employee, who was the grievor accusing a female colleague of sexual harassment in this case, was actually the one who was sexually harassing the female colleague. Simply put, the arbitrator found that the grievor’s evidence was not credible, the female colleague’s account was credible and consistent with the evidence, and the female colleague did not do what the employee accused her of. As a result, the labour arbitrator agreed with the employer that . . . [more]

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Afsana Gibson-Chowdhury is the founder of Gibson Chowdhury, Clear Collaborative Mediation and a renowned advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion among legal, dispute resolution and . . . [more]

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Last week, I was asked to provide a peer-review of an article submission to a law journal.

After reviewing it thoroughly, I began to suspect that at least some of the content may have been AI-generated.

What Gives?

First off, there were at least two citations that led to dead ends. By now we all know this is a dead give away.

Second, there was little to no language linking paragraphs together. So there might have been two or three paragraphs written on a distinctive topic, but no language to alert the reader that a new topic was about to . . . [more]

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This week the randomly selected blogs are 1.A PierreRoy & AssociA(c)s 2. IFLS at Osgoode 3. Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada 4. Barry Sookmant 5. Meurrens on Immigration

PierreRoy & AssociA(c)s
ResponsabilitA(c)s daadministrateurs daentreprise : ce que vous devez savoir

Si vous Aates laadministrateur daune entreprise aux prises avec des difficultA(c)s financiA"res, vous . . . [more]

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