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Dec 11, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Marcelo Osorio Rodriguez |Marcelo D. Rodríguez |Andrew Martin |Jordan Furlong |Amy Salyzyn
If you glance at the news, it feels as if the world is on fire—both literally and figuratively. Climate change wreaks havoc across continents, pandemics challenge our healthcare systems, wars and conflicts displace millions, and the erosion of democratic principles shakes trust in institutions worldwide. At the same time, misinformation spreads faster than facts, nationalism competes with global cooperation, and the international community often seems paralyzed by political gridlock.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Andrew Martin |Jordan Furlong |Amy Salyzyn |Mark Hunter
PREFACE This is the second part of a post placing LEAF’s recent report, What It Takes: Establishing a Gender-Based Violence Accountability Mechanism in Canada (“What It Takes” or “LEAF report)” on gender-based violence (GBV) in the context of historical efforts to address GBV (albeit fragmentary references) and more recent developments: the 2021 Joint Declaration for a Canada Free of Gender-Based Violence, signed by Canada, the provinces and the territories, leading to the 2022 National...
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Andrew Martin |Jordan Furlong |Amy Salyzyn |Mark Hunter
As a person who articled and practiced with a provincial government, and now teaches at a law school that defines itself in part by “the Weldon tradition of unselfish public service”, I encourage my students to consider a career of legal practice in the public service – but to do so with their eyes open.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Amy Salyzyn |Mark Hunter
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. National Magazine 2. Risk Management & Crisis Response 3. Reconciliation Syllabus 4. Labour Pains 5.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Amy Salyzyn |Mark Hunter
People-centered approaches have quickly become the norm in access to justice. By the term norm I mean essentially the same thing as the use of the term in sociology, a widely accepted expectation or rule of behaviour – a way of doing things. People-centricity has escaped the fate of becoming either a mot du jour or a term widely accepted but deemed nothing new, greeted with the assertion; We have always done that. We just didn’t have a name for it.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Amy Salyzyn |Mark Hunter |Susannah Tredwell
Each month, we tell you which three English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For this past month, the three most-consulted English-language decisions were:1.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Amy Salyzyn |Mark Hunter |Susannah Tredwell
In 2022, Justice Mandhane introduced the tort of family violence to address the injuries committed during the course of a marriage. A year later, in 2023, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned this new tort in the decision Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia, 2023 ONCA 476. This matter is now being appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. In the article “’Weaponizing’ The Tort of Family Violence?
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Amy Salyzyn |Mark Hunter |Susannah Tredwell
In law firms, lawyers are everything. They do everything: They are the owners of the firm, and they’re also its officers and directors, but they’re also its managers and supervisors, and wait, they’re its workers too, and they set all the rules and make the policies and create the culture. The only thing lawyers don’t do in law firms is the stuff they consider beneath them, the clerical and support work.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Amy Salyzyn |Mark Hunter |Susannah Tredwell
Canadian courts are concerned about AI. They are concerned that litigants may misuse AI and attempt to introduce fake cases or deepfake evidence into court proceedings. They are also concerned about AI potentially usurping judges’ decision-making role and thereby undermining the proper administration of justice.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Catherine Morris |Amelia Landenberger |Susannah Tredwell |Amy Salyzyn
Before J.D. Vance, we had our own cat lady, Twiss—an unapologetic lover of cats and Cats. Twiss, along with a cast of other lovable characters and a fantastic script inspired by the great Shakespearean actress Seana McKenna, is set to take the stage at the Palmerston Public Library Theatre (Toronto) from October 25-27. Watching Seana McKenna Watch Paint Dry is exactly what it sounds like—the title doesn’t mislead. A group of people attend a play to watch Seana McKenna watch paint dry. And why not?
