When should judges grant police access to a media company’s communications with a source? What if that source is suspected of engaging in terrorist activity? In R v Vice Media Canada Inc., 2018 SCC 53 [Vice] the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) balanced the interests of the media and the state in creating a new […]
The British Columbia Court of Appeal ("BCCA") case KBA Canada, Inc v Supreme Graphics Limited, 2014 BCCA 117, was released this past March. The judgment reversed the decision of the lower court, with part of the courts’ analysis revealing contrasting opinions on the role of equity in determining the priority of a security interest that […]
In High Tower Homes Corporation v Stevens, 2014 ONCA 911, the Court of Appeal for Ontario applied numerous contract law topics in disposing of an appeal regarding an agreement of purchase and sale in relation to two properties.
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” – Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in “What Publicity Can Do,” Harper’s Weekly, 1913. In an environment that views public accountability with a healthy dose of skepticism, Parliament has advanced the Access to Information Act (the “Act”) to foster government transparency. In the pharmaceutical […]