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Tuesdays in June are OBA Pub Nights!

  • June 16, 2014
  • YLD Central Executive

Cheers to Tuesdays! Come join the YLD at the OBA Pub Nights on Tuesdays in June for an opportunity to meet and establish connections with both young and experienced lawyers, expand your network of contacts and develop and enhance life, legal and career skills.

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Butting Out Smokers from the Workplace

  • May 23, 2014
  • Danielle T. Gauer

The Ontario Human Rights Code aims to ensure that everyone has a right to equal treatment with respect to services, goods and facilities, without discrimination because of disability. Although the medical community recognizes that smoking is in fact an addiction similar to alcohol and drug dependencies, which have both been found to be disabilities within the meaning of the Code, the case law is divided on the legal issue of addiction to nicotine.

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Cruise Ship Liability and the Canadian Plaintiff

  • May 13, 2014
  • Danielle T. Gauer

This article discusses the conflict of laws issues that surround cruise ship liability. In the United States cruise ship personal injury litigation has grown to become a specialized practice area with the maritime law field. Canadians are no stranger to the growing popularity of cruise ship travel. Therefore, it is important to understand the complex legal issues that exist in pursuing litigation for injury suffered at sea.

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Roadkill or Sacred Cow?: Defining 'Reputation' in 21st Century Defamation Law

  • April 29, 2014
  • Mark A.B. Donald

It's bound to be an exciting summer not only for the Liberal Party of Canada, but also for defamation law: in the space of two weeks, the Grits initiated not one, but two high-profile defamation actions. Putting aside politics, each action offers to Ontario courts an opportunity to engage with the concept of “reputation” in modern Canadian society. In this article, Mark A.B. Donald discusses how these two actions might further define how "reputation" impacts the law of defamation.

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18 Years!?! 18 Years?!? Revisiting Kanye West’s "Gold Digger" and the Law on Child Support

  • April 29, 2014
  • Andrew Sudano

Despite Kanye West's assertion that "18 years" is the de facto end of childhood, the law regarding child support under the Divorce Act and Federal Child Support Guidelines indicates that a parent’s obligation to support their child may extend beyond the age of 18. In this article, Andrew Sudano discusses ongoing child support obligations in cases involving an older "child of the marriage".

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Lean In Panel Discussion

  • April 07, 2014
  • Vivene Salmon

Vivene Salmon highlights a Panel Discussion on the book Lean In, authored by Sheryl Sandberg.

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