Apple Doesn’t Call Maps App Most ‘Powerful Mapping Service Ever’ Anymore
Oh dear: Story It goes without saying: Apple’s Maps app has been a bit of a disaster since its launch with iOS 6 earlier this month. Although Tim Cook said…
James C Morton
Canadian Internet Provider Rogers Experiencing Major, Prolonged Outage [Update: It’s Back!]
Canadian wireless and internet provider Rogers is currently experiencing a widespread, continued outage of services on both its cellular and cable home internet data networks, according to various user reports.…
Nunavut, RCMP target unsafe gun storage after dozens of firearm incidents
Guns are a necessary tool in the North — but as in the South they are tools that need to be respected: IQALUIT, Nunavut – RCMP and the Nunavut government…
Proof of possession
R. v. Brar (G.), 2008 MBQB 133, 234 Man.R. (2d) 1, is a concise statement of the law of proof of possession: Central to all three charges is the issue…
Joint submissions on sentence
R. v. Milijanovic, 2012 ONCA 647 is a useful source for the principle that a court may reject a joint submission but not because it is close to inappropriate: We…
How "equal" are the homeless?
Oh irony! A new statue in downtown Toronto says all people are equal under Law. What do I see below the statue? An elderly homeless man. How equal is he?
What did the snail say when he hitched a ride on the turtle’s back?
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thank heavens, we are a little safer from cheese smugglers
It seems I was wrong and the “tough on crime” program is working! Story here A Canadian police officer was among three people charged as the country’s authorities announced they…
Publication ban proper to protect identity of bullied person however nonidentifying information to be made public
A.B. v. Bragg Communications Inc., 2012 SCC 46 was just released. The Supreme Court upholds publication bans insofar as they protect the identity of people subjected to bullying on the…
Supreme Court to rule on Facebook privacy case today!
A Nova Scotia teenager who wants to sue the people she alleges bullied her on Facebook will find out Thursday whether she’ll get to keep her name and details of…
The Supreme Court has reached too far
Last week the Supreme Court ruled an ad hoc group of existing and former sex-trade workers has the right to challenge Canada’s anti-prostitution laws on constitutional grounds. At first blush…
Judges must consider the trial evidence in its entirety
Judges must consider all the evidence at trial – they do not have to recite it all in their reasons but they must consider it. See today’s decision in R.…
Interpreting Commercial Documents
Bank of Montreal v. Barber Glass Industries Inc., 2012 ONCA 630 has a brief but useful passage on the interpretation on commercial agreements: Negotiated commercial documents are to be interpreted…
Appellant review of discretionary decisions
Hinke v. Thermal Energy International Inc., 2012 ONCA 635 provides: Absent a conclusion that the motion judge was clearly wrong or made an error in law, this court will not…