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Robotham v. WestJet Airlines | 2014 CarswellOnt 7043 | Ontario Superior Court of Justice

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Legal Wit — Bad Timing.

[The Defendant] may have seen the headline in today's Metro newspaper : "Gunplay Continues".

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Phillion v. Ontario (Attorney General) | 2014 CarswellOnt 10370 | Ontario Court of Appeal

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Legal Wit — Dangerous Combinations

Intuition and self certainty are a dangerous pair.

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With charity awareness techniques in the news (ice bucket challenge, anyone?), this C.E.D. post provides an overview of the law of charities and, in particular, the forms of charities as they apply to trusts, corporations, unincorporated organizations, as well as the classification of charities under the Income Tax Act.

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Informational Privacy and Anonymity | Text Messages as Excited Utterances

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Khadr v. Edmonton Institution | 2014 CarswellAlta 1182 | Alberta Court of Appeal

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Legal Wit — Is the Court Gullible?

The Defendant attempts to leave the impression that it is all the Plaintiff's fault the cheque was not honoured.

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Relocation under the Guidelines — Summary Procedure

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R. v. Vu | 2011 CarswellBC 3551 | Frankel J.A.

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Legal Wit — Was Romeo a Prowler?

…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.

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Ontario v. Rothmans Inc. | 2014 CarswellOnt 8352 | Ontario Superior Court of Justice

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