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Cambridge Analytica has been all over the news for the past couple of weeks.

BC’s Intimate Images Protection Act (“IIPA”) gives recourse to individuals who experience the non-consensual sharing of their intimate images.

In Price v. Top Line Roofing, Top Line laid off two of its oldest journeymen, Mr. Price, who was 53 and a colleague, who was in his 60s.

In Sateri (Shanghai) Management Limited v. Vinall, 2017 BCSC 491, the B.C. Supreme Court summed up the law governing how far a departing employee can go in effectively assisting a new employer, ...

Most employers know the value of having written employment agreements in place for their non-union or excluded employees, particularly when it comes to setting out obligations relating to termination.

In a recent decision of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT – 2016 – 00642, issued on March 1, 2016), the Tribunal provided some guidance as to what conduct could establish a claim.

On November 17, 2020, the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, tabled Bill C-11, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020 (the "Act")...

In Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario v. York Region District School Board, 2022 ONCA 476, the Ontario Court of Appeal held that a school principal and the school board...

The B.C. Supreme Court's decision in Alsip v. Top Rollshutters Inc. (c.o.b. Talius), 2015 BCSC 1166 serves as a cautionary tale to employers when they are preparing employment contracts.

In 1991, Michael Jackson's hit single, "Black or White", topped the Billboard Hot 100 just three weeks after its release.

The legalization of cannabis has and will continue to affect a great number of things in our country — from policing to residential leasing to the air quality at the Santa Claus parade

The Accessible British Columbia Act (the "Act") received royal assent on June 17, 2021.

In Styles v. Alberta Investment Management Corporation, 2017 ABCA 1, the Alberta Court of Appeal (the "Court") reversed a lower court decision that had awarded a dismissed employee...

On March 9, 2023 and as summarized in a previous article, the Provincial Government of British Columbia passed Bill 2, which recognizes National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ("NDTR") on September 30th...

Corporation of the Township of Langley -and- Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 403, BCLRB No. B117/2017 (leave for reconsideration denied in No. B151/2017) is part of a series of decisions...

A recent BC Supreme Court decision, Thoma v. Schaefer Elevator Components Inc., 2019 BCSC 100, reviewed the impact of a written employment agreement and the employer's past practice of applying it.

Sadly, it is far too common that we hear of news headlines involving professional athletes charged or convicted of assaulting their partners or spouses...