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407 ETR, Moloney, and the contested meaning of rehabilitation in Canada’s personal bankruptcy system
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Introduction: Every year, over one hundred thousand Canadians turn to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act for relief from their indebtedness. They require assistance handling debt loads that they have no realistic chance of ever repaying. Their debts may cause them other problems such as...
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2012
A litigator I used to work with had a way with metaphors. He once described a legal argument as being a “long arrow with a really short bow” — the implication being that, while impressive and even intimidating at first instance, the argument really did not “fly” and failed to advance the law in a...
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2000
Introduction: Socrates' admonition about excessive and inaccurate praise of love is more instructive today than ever. Unlike Kant's notion of good will, for example, love itself cannot be seen as an unqualified good, as something that shines purely and perfectly irrespective of the interests it...
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2009
This article examines the silencing of Aboriginal people in Canadian legal discourse. The continued colonization of Aboriginal people is represented in legal decisions which display how Aboriginal laws, evidence, and reasoning are barred from the judicial process. By relying on early precedent...
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1998
Introduction: This article is concerned with the extent to which one party has a common law duty to disclose information to another, either antecedent to or during the life of a commercial contract.' Though the general rule for contractual negotiations is that there is no duty of disclosure, such...
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2012
The author addresses two perennial problems in Canadian administrative law: the choice of a standard of review and the inconsistent application of the reasonableness standard. With these problems in mind, the Supreme Court of Canada in Dunsmuir set out to establish a 'principled framework that is...
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Dizzying Dialogue: Canadian Courts and the Continuing Justification of the Dispossession of Aboriginal Peoples
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Since Aboriginal rights have found protection within Canada's Constitution, a new relationship has emerged between Canada's Aboriginal Peoples and the Crown. This relationship is characterized by the need for \"reconciliation. \" In its growing jurisprudence, the Supreme Court of Canada applies...
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2003
This article analyzes the role of freedom of choice in the Canadian law of unjust enrichment. Courts must balance the plaintiff's interest in recovering a benefit, with which she did not freely part, against the defendant's interest in controlling the allocation of resources in his possession....