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Workplace Violence

On June 15, 2010, the Bill 168 amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act come into force.  The amendments require virtually all Ontario employers to conduct a violence risk assessment and to implement policies to address workplace harassment and violence.  This is something that all employers need to be aware of.   The requirements

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End of an era

For the past 11 years our firm has hired Articling Students.  These are men and women who have finished their law degrees, completed the required Law Society seminars and/or exams depending on when they graduated Law School and spent 12 or 10 months with our firm, depending on the Law Society requirements at the time

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Spring Cleaning

It is the time of year again when we start sending out our corporate maintenance reminder letters.  And as such, I thought it would be appropriate to cover that issue here.   Various provincial and federal statutes require that corporations meet basic requirements in terms of annual record keeping and reporting.   In addition to

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The Law has a sense of humour – honest !

April Fools Day is almost upon us and as tempting as it is to prank our Blog, I think that April Fools jokes are probably best left to my personal, rather than professional life (my family is hereby on notice of potential pranks and warned that any pranks played on the writer of this blog

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Landlord Liability for Tenant Damages

A recent Court of Appeal case affirming an earlier Supreme Court decision, provides some interesting, and possibly surpirsing, commentary on the allocation of risk in commercial leases.   In 1044589 Ontario Inc. carrying on business as Nantucket Business Centre v AB Autorama Ltd. the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled on the liability for damages that resulted from

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