Itâs time to decide what Christmas books to read this holiday season! The holiday season is upon us once again. I like to theme my reading, so every year I pick a Christmas book to read for the month of December. This year, as I was contemplating which Christmas book to read for 2023, I [â¦]
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WOOP is a research-based method you can start applying right away to achieve your goals. WOOP is an acronym that stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan. Itâs a method for achieving goals, setting preferences, and changing habits that is based on 20 years of sccientific research in the science of motivation. The WOOP method was [â¦]
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You can increase your happiness by applying practices from the science of happiness. I came across an online course from Yale Universityâan Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticutâon âThe Science of Well-Beingâ. Itâs taught by Professor Laurie Santos, and it became the most popular class ever taught at Yale. I took the course [â¦]
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Although often overshadowed by the Ancient Greeks, the Ancient Romans also had a rich culture and produced many must-read books. As Iave mentioned before on this blog, one of my goals in life is to be well-read. Iâm making a list of the books I feel that I need to read to achieve that goal, [â¦]
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What do you do when you want to travel, but canât? People love to travel for many reasons. Here are some of them: We crave knew experiences. We may have read, or heard, of a place that sounds like it would be fantastic to visit. We want to discover new ways of doing things and [â¦]
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You need unwavering commitment to achieve your goals. A while back I wrote a post on Ten Must-Watch TED Talks for lifelong learners. One of the talks that I highlighted in that post was by Connor Grooms. Grooms is a young man who learned to speak Spanish in a month. In his talk, Grooms explains [â¦]
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Being able to cope during hard times, such as these, is an invaluable skill. Life moves in cycles. Sometimes weare up, and sometimes weare down. The upcycles are great, but the downcycles can be difficult to deal with. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, humanity is currently going through a downcycle. This makes the question, aWhatas the [â¦]
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There are plenty of ways to have fun even if you have to stay at home. Itâs mid-March, and the world finds itself in the throes of a pandemic. If thereâs one thing that most experts agree on when it comes to the best way to stay safe from the COVID-19 virus, itâs that we [â¦]
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Stop self-sabotaging your learning efforts. Iam a weightlifter. One of the most difficult weightlifting exercises to perform properlyaif not the most difficultais the barbell back squat. This is for several physical reasons, including the following: In order to squat properly you must have good flexibility and mobility. This includes ankle mobility, hamstring mobility, hip mobility, [â¦]
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Stop waiting to be picked. Pick yourself. Author, marketing expert, and entrepreneur Seth Godin explains that weare taught since we were kids to wait to be picked. When we want something, we wait to get permission from those who are in a position of authority: the Human Resources Director, the publisher, the record label manager, [â¦]
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Through technology, counsel can now utilize a variety of demonstrative aids . . . [more]
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We have both written previously on myths and stereotypes about intimate partner violence (IPV), one of the most common of which is that women make false or exaggerated claims of violence to gain an advantage in family law disputes (see here and here). In KMN v SZM, 2024 BCCA 70 (CanLII), the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) recognized the existence of this myth and the need for courts to avoid making assumptions that perpetuate it, holding that it is . . . [more]
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This week the randomly selected blogs are 1.A Dooreyas Workplace Law Blog 2. Lash Condo Law 3. Canadian Appeals Monitor 4. Family LLB 5. Avoid a Claim
Dooreyas Workplace Law Blog
SCC: Exclusion of Managers from Labour Legislation Not a Charter Violation
The Supreme Court of Canada released a much anticipated but under the radar . . . [more]
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PANAL (DROIT) : La juge de premiA"re instance nâa pas errA(c) en dA(c)terminant que la caractA(c)ristique dominante de la poupA(c)e en silicone que possA(c)dait lâaccusA(c) est une reprA(c)sentation des organes sexuels et de la rA(c)gion anale dâune enfant dans un but sexuel, ce qui constitue du matA(c)riel de pornographie juvA(c)nile . . . [more]
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INTRODUCTION
Webber Academy (or athe schoola), a private educational institution in Alberta, defined itself as non-denominational: it did not engage in any overt religious practice (with one possible and qualified exception). Yet, after two Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC) decisions, two Queenas Bench (as it then was) (QB) judgements, two Court of Appeal (CA) rulings and two denial of leaves to appeal by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), it was held to have discriminated without justification against two Muslim students whom it prohibited from engaging, on school property, in overt prayers. How did this happen? And what does it . . . [more]
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Written by Daniel Standing, LL.B., Content Editor, First Reference Inc.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia rendered a decision (2024 BCSC 55 (CanLII)) on judicial review which looked at the employerâs choice to implement a COVID-19 vaccination policy, and whether, under the Labour Relations Code, it was obligated to enter into discussions with the union first. The case provides employers with insight into the difficulty of overturning a tribunalâs decision.
Background
The workplace was a provincially run rapid transit company. The Court considered a unionâs petition for judicial review of a decision by the British Columbia Labour . . . [more]
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While weare all aware that there are substantive differences between Canadian law and the law of other jurisdictions, itas much easier to forget that the practice of law varies just as much from nation to nation. Thereas more than one way to do almost anything, and the Canadian legal system is founded on a very specific set of choices, norms, and traditions.
Upon arriving in Canada from her native Australia, and despite her . . . [more]
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The Facts
The Calgary City Police were investigating fraud in online liquor sales and came across a payment processor who processed the suspect transactions. . . . [more]
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PANAL (DROIT) : Dans le cadre de lâaffaire du meurtre de Guylaine Potvin, le tribunal dA(c)clare recevable le tA(c)moignage dâune biologiste judiciaire A titre de tA(c)moin expert concernant lâutilisation du nouvel outil dâenquAate dA(c)signA(c) comme le A<
IntitulA(c) :A R. c. Grenon, 2024 QCCS 551
Juridiction . . . [more]
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Written by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD, Content Editor, First Reference Inc.
In January 2024, a British Columbia labour arbitrator had no hesitation concluding that an employee, who was the grievor accusing a female colleague of sexual harassment in this case, was actually the one who was sexually harassing the female colleague. Simply put, the arbitrator found that the grievorâs evidence was not credible, the female colleagueâs account was credible and consistent with the evidence, and the female colleague did not do what the employee accused her of. As a result, the labour arbitrator agreed with the employer that . . . [more]
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Afsana Gibson-Chowdhury is the founder of Gibson Chowdhury, Clear Collaborative Mediation and a renowned advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion among legal, dispute resolution and . . . [more]
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Last week, I was asked to provide a peer-review of an article submission to a law journal.
After reviewing it thoroughly, I began to suspect that at least some of the content may have been AI-generated.
What Gives?
First off, there were at least two citations that led to dead ends. By now we all know this is a dead give away.
Second, there was little to no language linking paragraphs together. So there might have been two or three paragraphs written on a distinctive topic, but no language to alert the reader that a new topic was about to . . . [more]
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This week the randomly selected blogs are 1.A PierreRoy & AssociA(c)s 2. IFLS at Osgoode 3. Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada 4. Barry Sookmant 5. Meurrens on Immigration
PierreRoy & AssociA(c)s
ResponsabilitA(c)s daadministrateurs daentreprise : ce que vous devez savoir
Si vous Aates laadministrateur daune entreprise aux prises avec des difficultA(c)s financiA"res, vous . . . [more]
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PANAL (DROIT) : Dans une affaire de violence conjugale et postconjugale, la juge de premiA"re instance a commis 2A erreurs de principe en omettant dâA(c)valuer correctement le risque que lâimposition dâune peine avec sursis A lâaccusA(c) poserait pour la collectivitA(c); une peine dâemprisonnement de 6A mois est substituA(c)e aux 10A . . . [more]
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On April 4, 2024, the Alberta Court of Appeal released its decision in Altius Royalty Corporation v Alberta, 2024 ABCA 105 (CanLII).
The appellants own a royalty interest in a coal mine. In 2014 they acquired royalty interests in the Genesee coal mine. This coal fuels the Genesee power plant in Alberta.
By 2012 federal performance standards, the end of life of the three coal-fired plants was determined to be 2039, 2044 and 2055 (para 3).
They claim their interest was constructively expropriated (paras 2 and 5) when the government of Canada amended the regulations to require the . . . [more]
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