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2 months ago | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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Amid a growing wave of lawsuits against producers, Canadian companies have a deadline to report on the presence of PFAS in their supply chains
It’s not a bandwagon until B.C. gets on board.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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In-depth
Experts say we’re not going to see the same surge at the border as in the past, but Canada faces some hard immigration choices over the next four years
There has been no shortage of grim headlines about Donald Trump’s plans for undocumented migrants in the United States — the threats to send families to internment camps, deport 12 million undocumented people and put an end to temporary protected status (TPS) for refugees in peril.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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Those who want fossil fuel companies to pony up encouraged by proposal requiring tobacco giants to provide provinces, territories and smokers billions in compensation
The bills are coming due. Over the past 15 years, Canada's annual cost of insurance claims related to extreme weather events has risen to nearly $2 billion. That’s up from between $250 million and $400 million from 1983 to 2008.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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At the end of October, the province will permit advance requests for an assisted death
In early September, after the Quebec government announced that it would start granting advance requests for medical assistance in dying, journalists asked Patrick Michel, the province’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions, whether it was acting outside the law.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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What to watch for and avoid to keep from getting caught up in a money laundering scheme
Nobody loves spam. Lawyers — who sometimes receive spam of the career-ending kind — have reasons to hate it more than most.
“Lawyers get these pitches all the time.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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Judiciary
Supreme Court Justice Mahmud Jamal’s decision to recuse himself from a hearing on Quebec’s secularism law has raised questions
There are two ways to look at Supreme Court Justice Mahmud Jamal’s decision to recuse himself from the court’s hearing of a legal challenge of Quebec’s Bill 21.
As political science professor Emmett Macfarlane pointed out in a recent post, one is reassuring, the other is alarming.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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A group of Canadian school boards is suing the platforms, accusing them of designing addictive products that harm kids and disrupt learning
The plaintiffs clearly thought it was worth a try. After a series of coordinated attacks by the terrorist group ISIS claimed the lives of nearly 130 people in Paris in 2015, the family of one of the victims — 23-year-old American student Nohemi Gonzalez — sued Google, YouTube’s parent company.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
Law Hot topics Observers say the fighting over the federal government’s legislative tweaks is undermining investor confidence and hurting the country When the Supreme Court of Canada released its advisory opinion on the constitutionality of the federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA) in October 2023, it expressed a fond hope that the provinces and Ottawa could learn to work together “harmoniously” to “exercise their respective powers over the environment.” Eight months later, nobody’s holding...
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May 21, 2024 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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As large, amorphous groups with no single unifying objective overtake traditional pickets-and-bullhorn events, is a new legal framework needed to deal with them?
The nature of large-scale public protests in Canada and throughout the developed world seems to be changing.
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May 7, 2024 | 
nationalmagazine.ca | Doug Beazley
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The first-of-its-kind negotiated deal with British Columbia recognizes the Haida’s Aboriginal title to all of terrestrial Haida Gwaii.
The James Bay and Northern Quebec agreement, the first of Canada’s first modern land claim agreement and treaty, runs to nearly 500 pages, single-spaced.
