The following article appeared in the Toronto Sun on August 18, 2017. Visit the original article.
They were aspiring ballet dancers who travelled from Toronto and cities across Canada to realize their dreams at the renowned Royal Winnipeg Ballet School.
But in a proposed $185 million class action lawsuit filed by Sarah Doucet of Toronto on behalf of her fellow underage students, she alleges they were coerced into posing for lurid photos by teacher Bruce Monk who then sold their images online without their knowledge or consent.
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a decision expunging the trademark of a competitor of Times Group Corporation (Times Group) and granting a permanent injunction restraining the competitor from using the word “Time” from marketing real estate to Toronto’s Chinese-Canadian community.
Amnesty International welcomed the official announcement today from Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould that settlement has been reached with respect to Omar Khadr’s lawsuit. Mr. Khadr has received compensation and an apology from the Canadian government for the troubling role that Canadian officials played in the serious human rights violations he experienced while held by US forces at Guantánamo Bay between 2002 and 2012.
The following article appeared in the The Canadian Press on March 27, 2017. Two Toronto law firms have launched a Canada-wide class-action lawsuit against the manufacturers of implantable defibrillators that can fail with little or no warning because of potentially defective batteries. About 8,000 Canadians were implanted with the cardiac defibrillators with the brand names Fortify, Fortify Assura, Fortify Assura MP, Unify, Unify Assura, or Unify Quadra, which were manufactured between January 2010 and May 23, 2015. Those made after that period are not affected by the defect.
The judge in a lawsuit against the RCMP has called the national police force’s treatment of plaintiff Sgt. Peter Merrifield “outrageous” and has chastised the force for its lack of credibility and forthrightness in defending the case. “The defendants had a reckless disregard of causing the plaintiff to suffer emotional distress,” wrote Judge Mary Vallee in her 176-page ruling. She awarded Merrifield $41,000 in lost wages for delayed advancement, and $100,000 in general damages for “harassment and intentional infliction of mental suffering.”
