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Graham v. Vandersloot, 2012 ONCA 60 deals with the propriety an adjournment sought on the start of trial. The broad lesson is, generally, such adjournments will be granted. The Court writes: [5]              Adjournment decisions are highly discretionary and appellate courts are rightly reluctant to interfere with them.  Laskin J.A. succinctly summarized the operative

A little latter-day nausea for those of us who used to be “lovin’ it.” [H/t msanthropics]

That was Adolf Hitler in 1939, who had found a model for his own policies of mass extermination. He was explaining that the genocide of the Armenians would become, as one of his latter-day French followers once claimed of the Holocaust, a footnote of history. France recently passed legislation making

Study shows that a substantial majority — 73 per cent — of Kamloops area residents surveyed would like CBC to establish a local radio station to cover community affairs.

R. v. Hirsekorn, 2012 ABCA 21 deals with whether the application of a legal test to specific facts can give rise to an error of law. The Court holds it can — an important point for appeal purposes: [14] I do not agree with the respondent that the second question

This is something for all those North Americans who find it strange to see “pain” rhyme with “again” in some English poetry. Language is a living thing, and, strangely, I find this explanation of what Shakespeare’s actors might have sounded like during his lifetime frequently easier to understand than British

February. WFDS