Sentences with phrase «canadian public the right»

The ATIA grants members of the Canadian public the right to request access to records held by federal government institutions subject to the Act.

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The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

At public speaking events in recent years, he's often opened by thanking organizers for inviting a Canadian banker to speak — «In most places right now in the world if you're a banker you don't even go out at nights.»

As far as some Canadian CEOs are concerned, the voting public made the right decision in electing another Conservative federal government over a Liberal one, according to a web poll conducted by COMPAS Inc..

But you're right that most of the group are probably CEOs (and if anyone had the time or inclination, they could probably go through the public disclosure documents of big Canadian companies and amass a pretty thorough database of which CEOs account for the bulk of the high income earners).

June 13, 2016 - CCGG Executive Director Stephen Erlichman was quoted in the National Post with regard to various REITs providing more rights to unitholders, as recommended in CCGG's policy on the Governance of Canadian REITs and Other Public Income Trusts.

The recent flurry of stories about Canada's copyright laxity (see below) suggests that the «rights holder» community is softening up the Canadian public for a strong dose of copyright medicine.

 This issue has a number of pieces on issues of inequality, including: Rising inequality is hurting our economy Labour rights, unions and the 99 % Canadian economy bleeding jobs; public sector cuts to intensify Recession and cuts hit Aboriginal and -LSB-...]

These stories of everyday - people - turned - human - rights - defenders, most of them Indigenous men and women of Mesoamerica, will undoubtedly provide the Canadian public with the so - far untold story about this highly - controversial Canadian economic development model.

This week, The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced that it had filed a human rights complaint against Canadian mainstay Air Canada, alleging «systemic discrimination and harassment» against its members.

Canadians also highlighted concerns around digital rights, corporate overreach, democratic accountability, healthcare and public services, the environment, labour issues, and the economy as reasons they opposed the deal.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

It was not to be found in the overtly public (dare I say American) ministry of marching for civil rights and peace, or in his commentaries and books on public culture; but rather it was the interpersonal, interior expeditions of a shared faith (a quintessential Canadian attribute born out of long, cold winters spent indoors).

Tenth Annual Canadian National Breastfeeding Seminar for Health Professionals: Protecting the Right to Breastfeed; Toronto ONT, June 1 - 2, 2000, sponsored by INFACT Canada, Humber College, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre, and Toronto Public Health.

Scientists working for the Canadian government have successfully negotiated a clause in their new contract that guarantees their right to speak to the public and the media about science and their research, without needing approval from their managers.

For instance, having an ISBN might make you eligible to receive annual payments under the Public Lending Right Program as compensation for free access to your book in Canadian public librPublic Lending Right Program as compensation for free access to your book in Canadian public librpublic libraries.

The Commissioner of Competition, the federal agency tasked with advocating for the rights of Canadian consumers, won their abuse of dominance case against the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) after fighting for years to have sales data made accessible to the public.

As a voice for Canadian investors, FAIR Canada provides information and education to the public, governments and regulators about investors» rights and protections in Canada's capital markets.

It was part of the inaugural exhibition of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights when it opened to the public in September 2014.

In recent years, they have worked with a collective of performers and musicians in the group My Barbarian, creating projects including «Gods of Canada,» a super-heroic paean to Canadian liberalism commissioned in 2005 by the Power Plant in Toronto, Ontario; «Pagan Rights,» a quirky California dreamscape celebrating opposition to the Christian Right performed in 2005 at the Evidence Room Theater and UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Participant, Inc., in New York, and the Drake Hotel in Toronto; «Squirrel Radio Action,» a public radio send - up commissioned in 2005 by Pacific Drift on NPR - affiliate KPCC; «Medieval Morality,» a site - specific play at Los Angeles» MAK Center Schindler House in 2004.

A pioneer of Conceptual art, the Los Angeles — based artist has worked with composer Sean Griffin to translate language from four influential speeches or manifestos into musical notation: Malcolm X's last public speech, made in 1965 in Detroit's Ford Auditorium; Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (1999), by Canadian Mohawk scholar and activist Taiaiake Alfred; «Indocumentalismo Manifesto — an Emerging Socio - Political Ideological Identity» (2010), by Raúl Alcaraz and Daniel Carrillo; and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, written by French activist and writer Olympe De Gouges in 1791.

«The Conservatives have spent millions of public dollars to push for a pipeline that will export Canadian jobs, trample First Nations rights undermine domestic industrial policy and is bad for the environment» said CEP National President Dave Coles.

Ten years ago the Canadian government launched a public inquiry to look into whether the actions of Canadian officials had contributed to the torture and other grave human rights violations that a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, had experienced while he was illegally imprisoned in Syria for a year in 2002 and 2003.

Canadian human rights legislation guarantees protection from discrimination in the provision of public services.

In addition, these requests were supported by representations that have been made during the past two years to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, by samplings of public opinion, and by recent legislative developments in several provinces.

In a 5 - 2 decision, the Court determined that the Public Service Essential Services Act («PSESA»), in restricting certain public sector workers» rights to strike, violated freedom of association rights under section 2 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights -LSPublic Service Essential Services Act («PSESA»), in restricting certain public sector workers» rights to strike, violated freedom of association rights under section 2 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights -LSpublic sector workers» rights to strike, violated freedom of association rights under section 2 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights -LSrights to strike, violated freedom of association rights under section 2 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights -LSrights under section 2 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights -LSRights -LSB-...]

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Every Hearing: One of the key recommendations in OBSTACLES, the need for changes to the Canadian Human Rights Act, was mentioned at every public hearing.

On July 31, 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada decided that proceedings under Canada's Income Tax Act (ITA) are administrative, not criminal, and a penalty imposed under it is not a «true penal consequence» — and the person on whom such a penalty is imposed doesn't get the protection of Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms» (section 11 (d)-RRB- guarantees of the presumption of innocence, proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and right to a fair and public hearing.

The Commissioner is an advocate for the privacy rights of Canadians and her powers include: Investigating complaints, conducting audits and pursuing court action under two federal laws - Privacy Act and Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA); Publicly reporting on the personal information - handling practices of public and private sector organizations; Supporting, undertaking and publishing research into privacy issues; and Promoting public awareness and understanding of privacy issues.

In fulfilling their mandates to protect the public, law societies have implemented an anti-money-laundering regime for members of the Canadian legal profession that respects the fundamental rights of all Canadians as affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada.»

The Top 25 Most Influential 2014 Always the most - read story of the year in Canadian Lawyer, the 2014 iteration celebrated some amazing lawyers in five categories: corporate - commercial law; changemakers; criminal and human rights law; government, associations, and non-profits including public inquiries and officers of Parliament; and the all - new world stage.

Through a recent tweet from Omar Ha - Redeye (@OmarHaRedeye), we learned that private member's Bill C - 304, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (protecting freedom) passed third reading in the House of Commons without much media coverage, public attention or debate from the opposition parties.

«As the Supreme Court of Canada has made clear, solicitor client privilege is a principle of fundamental justice and is a civil right of supreme importance in Canadian law,» Van Ommen said in a letter to Minister of Justice Jodi Wilson - Raybould and Minister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale.

On November 17, 2017, the B.C. Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC), the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — BC Office (CCPA - BC), the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS), the Poverty and Human Rights Centre, and West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (West Coast LEAF) made submissions to the government in support of a common vision for the BC Human Rights Commission (Commission).

Tamir is staff lawyer with the Samuelson - Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, where he conducts research and advocacy on various digital rights - related topics, with a focus on online privacy and anonymity, net neutrality, intellectual property, intermediary liability, spam, e-commerce, and consumer protection generally.

They've released an open letterSignatories include, Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada, Atlantic Provinces Library Association, BC Civil Liberties Association, BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association, BC Library Association, Colin Bennett, Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canadian Association of University Teachers, Canadian Federation of Students, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Canadian Library Association, CLUE: The Canadian Association for Open Source, Consumers Association of Canada, Electronic Frontier Canada, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FLORA.org, Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Marsha Hanen, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology at the University of Ottawa, Library Association of Alberta, Online Rights Canada, Ontario Library Association, Bruce Phillips, former Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Privaterra, Pubic Interest Advocacy Centre, Teresa Scassa, Director of the Law and Technology Institute and Associate Professor at Dalhousie Law School, Val Steeves, Professor, Faculty of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Paul Van Oorschot, Canada Research Chair in Network and Software Security, at Carleton University.

«In our view, the federation and the committee charged with approving new Canadian law degree programs must strike a balance between freedom of religion and equality, and give full consideration to its public interest mandate and to the values embodied in Canadian human rights laws,» wrote CBA president Robert Brun.

An initiative of the Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA) the CNA Freedom of Information Audit 2007 shows ``... persistent delays and misunderstandings in the very system that is designed to guarantee the public's right to information about government decisions.»

In conjunction with the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada's conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Montreal - based Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) asked polling firm SES Research to do a detailed survey of the attitudes of Canadians towards the Charter.

She had made three complaints to the Canadian Human Rights Commission against the Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat, Statistics Canada and the Public Service Commission of Canada.

This leaves Canadians vulnerable to strategic lawsuits against public participation through the privatization of fundamental civil and political rights in the judicial system.

Public pressure is a function of education, concerted action through civil society and the embarrassment of political leaders who are failing to protect the rights of Canadians.

While the original intent of section 7 as a whole is arguably irrelevant, the framer's intended meaning of «principles of fundamental justice» is surely relevant since the phrase had no «public» meaning at the time of its adoption, and, aside from its inclusion in the Canadian Bill of Rights, was not a familiar term of art.

I think Canadians take too much for granted, including that our country is inherently democratic and will remain so even if we loose the right to unionize, even if the government can mandate wages for striking workers, and even if we can be kicked out of public spaces for protesting (expressing an opinion).

The Canadian public has a right to an accessible standard of legal citation that will facilitate, not hinder their... [more]

The issue of balancing the right of the public to open courts with the right of an individual to privacy was tackled in 2003 in a discussion paper by the Canadian Judicial Council Judges Technology Advisory Committee (JTAC) titled «Open Courts, Electronic Access to Court Records, and Privacy».

In a democracy such as Canada, every Canadian citizen has the express right to disagree with public policy.

These libraries must be doing something right: the article reports that the Canadian Urban Libraries Council found that circulation and patron numbers increased in public libraries in cities with more than 100,000 people between 1996 and 2005.

I am hoping that the court «s role in this case will strike at the very existence of an absolute immunity under two guiding principles: equality under the law (especially when the alleged wrong has been committed by a person who should be held to the highest standards of conduct in exercising a public trust; and any infringement of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms constitutes «improper purpose» aimed at gaining a private collateral advantage.