Dennis Jacob and two other members of the Aroland First Nation were driving along a road used by Kimberly Clark for its forestry operations. It was nighttime when they shot at what they thought was a moose. It turned out to be a decoy and provincial officers charged them for night hunting and for discharging […]
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") issued a decisive ruling that clarifies once and for all that the interest paid on a mortgage taken out to purchase a principal residence cannot be tax deductible under any circumstances (unless part of the house is used for business purposes.)
On November 13, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") heard Judy Ann Craig’s appeal of a judgment rendered against her by the British Columbia Court of Appeal ("BCCA"). Ms. Craig’s appeal was heard alongside R c Ouellette, 2004 CanLII 26616 (QCCQ) and R v KT Nguyen; R v NT Nguyen, 2007 BCCA 474, but […]
The Supreme Court's decision last March in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9 was widely recognized as a watershed event in Supreme Court jurisprudence. Indeed, even for those not steeped in administrative law, Dunsmuir appreciably changed the optics of judicial review; the court not only eschewed the much maligned 'patent unreasonableness' standard of review, […]