There’s a lot at stake in a professional discipline hearing including, years of education and experience working in the field, reputation, licencing privileges and the ability to earn a livelihood. This is one area of law where jurisdictional issues, statutory interpretation and administrative law principles should be pushed to the absolute limit in defence of […]
The Respondent in this matter alleges he was denied a chaffeur’s driving permit on the basis of his pagan beliefs and “BDSM” lifestyle. On a human rights complaint, the human rights tribunal determined that as a jurisdictional matter, it was not clear that a “BDSM lifestyle” was not incuded in the definition of sexual orientation. […]
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I note that the City of North Vancouver will be holding an information meeting on May 24, 2007, relating to Mosquito Creek bank subsidence. There was an article in the North Shore News last week about the City’s response and handling of the matter. I understand that the City is pointing the finger at home […]
The term “Dooced” refers to termination for work related blogging and was coined by Heather Armstrong after she was fired for blogging about her work and co-workers. Other cases of fired bloggers include Delta Airlines flight attendant Ellen Simonetti writing “Queen of the Sky Blog” and Sparks Tribune reporter Tom Darby writing “Tom Uses His […]