…the Crown may have proved all the elements of this offence, including the mens rea contained in the words "loiter or prowl," but Parliament has recognized that those words have elastic qualities and may, after an explanation advanced by the accused, lose their pejorative meaning.

In Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare famously wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

It is a favourite pastime of almost all Canadian drivers to complain about the driving exhibited by all other Canadian drivers.

When one removes the rhetorical salt, pepper, and hot spices of conclusory adjectives of wrongdoing and moral turpitude, [the plaintiff]'s cause of action for fraud can be distilled to … constituent elements of material fact                  Holley v.

I cannot help but comment that the courts as public institutions are already bursting at the seams with all manner of claims.

A cottage, a camp, a cabin, a country house, a ranch: these are the different names given to second homes across Canada.

If a voyage aboard the Love Boat is at the top of the happiness scale in seafaring surely the North Atlantic on a trawler during the winter months must be very near, if not precisely at, the bottom.

… copyright law does not require novelty in order to find a work original.

The situation presented is almost Kafkaesque, and may well be one which will leave non-lawyers and lawyers like shaking their heads (in disbelief).

All professionals rightly seek to build a name for themselves and inspire confidence in their firms.

The Dickensian character, Mr.

"Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.