Constitutional
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October 02, 2024
N.S. top judge has high praise for appeal court trip to Cape Breton
Nova Scotia’s Chief Justice is calling his appeal court’s historic sitting outside the province’s capital a “great success” — and a learning opportunity for those involved.
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September 27, 2024
Supreme Court rejects leave to appeal three decisions touching tax, labour and human rights
The Supreme Court of Canada this week effectively upheld lower court decisions in three significant business cases, dismissing leave to appeal rulings from the Federal Court of Appeal and courts of appeal in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.
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September 27, 2024
Court upholds dismissal of $1.5M defamation claim against employee in workplace racism case
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a $1.5 million defamation claim brought by a company against an employee who alleged in news reports that he was laid off as a reprisal for asking the company to involve the police in investigating racist threats he faced at the workplace.
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September 26, 2024
Nova Scotia appeal court takes trip to Cape Breton
Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal has left its nest in Halifax and hit the road in a bid to make itself more accessible to the public. For its first-ever venture away from the Halifax Law Courts building, the province’s highest court will sit in the Sydney area, on Cape Breton Island, for the week of Sept. 23.
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September 25, 2024
Class action seeks compensation for alleged abuse of Indigenous students at Alberta school
A proposed Alberta class action alleges that Indigenous students at a school in Bonnyville, Alta., were subjected to frequent physical, psychological and sexual abuse from September 1966 to June 1974.
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September 23, 2024
Federal Court rules Ottawa had no duty to consult in funding cut for Francophone jurists group
The Federal Court has ruled that the federal government was not obligated to consult an organization advocating for French-language access to justice before cutting its core funding under an Official Languages Action Plan.
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September 23, 2024
Appeal court examines police use of informant info in gun case
Ontario’s Court of Appeal has maintained the need for trial judges to consider the “totality” of circumstances when assessing the credibility of information provided by confidential informants in police investigations. At the centre of the Court of Appeal for Ontario's Sept. 4 ruling in R. v. Buffong, 2024 ONCA 660, sits Temaal Buffong, who was arrested at a bus station after police received a tip from a confidential informant that Buffong was carrying a loaded handgun.
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September 20, 2024
Federal Court upholds CRA decision denying Rebel News journalism tax credits; Rebel to appeal
The Federal Court has upheld a federal government decision denying journalism tax credits to the Rebel News based on a finding that it doesn’t produce enough original news content.
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September 20, 2024
New rules in Nova Scotia represent a ‘minimum practice’ for regulation of policing, academic says
Nova Scotia has outlined new policing standards for police services in the province, brought in as part of its response to recommendations from a commission set up to look into a violent 2020 shooting spree that led to the death of nearly two dozen people.
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September 19, 2024
Treasury Board president Anita Anand gets second Cabinet post as transport minister
Liberal MP Anita Anand, the president of the federal Treasury Board and former defence minister in the Liberal government, has taken on the additional post of minister of transportation.