The National Assembly passed loi 142 in the early morning Tuesday, legislating 175,000 Quebecers back to work and ending the province’s week-old construction strike. The bill establishes a 1.8 per cent wage increase, short of…
On May 12, 2017, in Regional Health Authority (Vitalité Health Network) v Godin,[1] the Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick issued a permanent injunction enjoining anti-abortion activists from demonstrating within Chaleur Regional Hospital’s property lines….
A government bill sponsored by federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is on the cusp of amending the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) to include gender identity and expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination. The Standing…
Ontario’s top court issued a withering verdict in R v Sliwka this week, calling Justice Susanne Goodman to task for failing to provide reasons for her acquittal of Stanislaw Sliwka, who stood accused of repeated…
The revised Executive Order of President Trump “speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination,” was how Chief Justice Gregory of the Fourth Circuit Court of…
On Monday, May 22, 2017, the United States Supreme Court released their decision striking down two congressional districts, District 1 and 12, in North Carolina for being racially discriminatory. The majority concluded that North Carolina’s districting concentrated…
A report released on May 23 by the Ontario legislature calls for sweeping changes to all facets of employment in the province as part of its review of the Employment Standards Act (“ESA”). At 420 pages—and accompanied…
On May 10, 2017 United States’ Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, issued a memo for all federal prosecutors, instituting a new policy on how charges are to be laid and sentencing is to be approached. The…
Quebec’s Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la Jeunesse (CDPDJ) has asserted that some disabled people in the province are subject to discriminatory penalties on their pension benefits that should…
On April 25th, the SCC heard the last appeal in the matter of James Cody v. Her Majesty the Queen. Cody appealed as of right from the Newfoundland Court of Appeal’s (NLCA) reversal of the…
