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In Greig v Desjardins Financial Security Life Assurance Company, the British Columbia Supreme Court recently chastised another long term disability (LTD) provider for wrongfully denying benefits to an injured employee.
Mr. Greig was employed by a British Columbia school district and...
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Last week, we looked at the much anticipated Vavilov decision, in which the Supreme Court of Canada rewrote the analytical framework to be applied in judicial reviews of administrative decisions.
The Court applied this new framework in the second decision, Bell...
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The Supreme Court of Canada recently released three much anticipated administrative law decisions. This week we will look at the first decision. Next week we will discuss the other two. All three decisions relate to the “standard of review” applied...
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The Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) regulates the practice of law within the province. Recently it identified eight individuals and businesses that were misrepresenting themselves as lawyers.
The LSBC required them to sign written commitments stating that they won’t practice...
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What is the “right to be forgotten”? Does it exist in Canada?
This right arises from a 2014 decision of the European Union Court of Justice, commonly referred to as the “Google Spain” decision.
Google Spain Decision
The case arose from announcements published...
The B.C. Court of Appeal recently released a decision in which justice was done in a very sad case.
The case involved a woman named Ms. Tanious. Just before
starting a new job in 2005, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis...
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Don Cherry was notoriously loud, outspoken and colourful, both in what he said and in what he wore. He was a permanent fixture on the Canadian hockey scene.
That came to an end this past Monday, Remembrance Day 2019.
After making a...
There is a somewhat new kid on the insurance block in Canada.
Employment Practices Liability insurance, or EPL for short. It is more popular in the United States, but in recent years, has been making inroads in Canada.
In the United...
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Some believe that class sizes in Okanagan schools are rigidly limited to a certain number of students: 20 in kindergarten, 22 in grades 1-3, 28 in intermediate split classes, 30 in certain other classes, and so on. This is not...
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Last week, we began looking at the ongoing dispute between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and the B.C. government.
In 2011 and 2014, two British Columbia Supreme Court decisions sided with the BCTF. Both decisions held that the government’s attempts...
