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

Intuition and self certainty are a dangerous pair.

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.

Informational Privacy and Anonymity | Text Messages as Excited Utterances

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

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

Relocation under the Guidelines — Summary Procedure

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

…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.

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

R. v. Pawlowski | 2014 CarswellAlta 1041 | Alberta Provincial Court

R. v. Dhillon | 2012 CarswellBC 1715 | Smith J.A. (Donald and Hinkson JJ.A. concurring)