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Case Comment: Blacklock’s Reporter v. Canadian Vintners Association 2015 CanLII 65885 (ON SCSM)

One of the joys of copyright law is its tendency to produce unexpected and controversial decisions. Blacklock’s Reporter v Canadian Vintners Association, an October 16, 2015, judgement from Ontario Small Claims Court, qualifies on both counts.
One of the joys of copyright law is its tendency to produce unexpected and controversial decisions. Blacklock’s Reporter v Canadian Vintners Association, an October 16, 2015, judgement from Ontario Small Claims Court, qualifies on both counts.

November 30, 2015
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Signing vs. Ratifying: Unpacking the Canadian Government Position on the TPP

Michael Geist*The official release of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a global trade agreement between 12 countries including Canada, the United States, and Japan, has generated considerable confusion over where the Trudeau government stands on the deal. The TPP was concluded several weeks before the October election and the Liberals wer...
Michael Geist*The official release of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a global trade agreement between 12 countries including Canada, the United States, and Japan, has generated considerable confusion over where the Trudeau government stan...

November 23, 2015
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Regulating “Psychosurgery” in the 21st Century

Jennifer Chandler*Psychosurgery has a bad name for a good reason.  It is often associated with the mid-20th century prefrontal leucotomy (or lobotomy).  This procedure garnered its inventor, Egon Moniz, the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949, and it went on to be applied to thousands of people around the world.  In its heyday, the best kno...
Jennifer Chandler*Psychosurgery has a bad name for a good reason.  It is often associated with the mid-20th century prefrontal leucotomy (or lobotomy).  This procedure garnered its inventor, Egon Moniz, the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949, and...

November 16, 2015
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Constitutional Issues Complicate the Trans-Pacific Partnership

As the law stands today, an international treaty can’t give the federal government power to change the constitutional division of powers.
As the law stands today, an international treaty can’t give the federal government power to change the constitutional division of powers.

November 9, 2015
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Drones in Canada: Who Can Regulate What? Or, Why Potatoes might be Good for Drone Regulation

Canada’s Drone Rules Canada has been an early adopter of flexible regulations for limited commercial drone operations. The Canadian Aviation Regulations require all commercial Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV, or “drone”) operators to obtain special permission from Transport Canada before their respective flights. But, in 2014, Transport Canada carved out an exception to this requirement to allow some...
Canada’s Drone Rules Canada has been an early adopter of flexible regulations for limited commercial drone operations. The Canadian Aviation Regulations require all commercial Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV, or “drone”) operators to obtain special permission from Transport Canada before their respecti...

November 5, 2015