Sentences with phrase «canadian society in general»

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The Canadian Space Agency, for its part, also has a mandate to transfer its research and breakthroughs back to Canada and society in general.

Because of the high and ever - increasing prevalance of food allergies in Canada (7 % among the general population, and > 10 % of one - year olds), the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) considers allergy prevention a key health goal.

The CMA code «is more focused on the physician's relationship with the patient and the medical community, so it is in general more individualistic than the [Canadian military's], which recognizes from the start the social role of the military and its responsibility towards society,» Rochon and Williams - Jones argue.

As part of this project, CFHS conducted a general population survey of Canadians, as well as a multi-stakeholder survey of animal care organizations, receiving data from municipalities, veterinarians, humane societies and SPCAs, rescue organizations, trap - neuter - return groups, spay / neuter groups and other organizations across Canada that help to house or care for unwanted, abandoned, stray and feral cats in Canada.

Experts say the biting unanimous decision in Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society preventing the closure of North America's only safe - injection site for drug addicts has implications for the challenge to Canadian adult prostitution laws that is working its way through the courts.

«The authority of the judiciary in any democratic society rests on public confidence and public confidence can not exist in the absence of displaying the highest norms of conduct and ethical principles for judges,» says Norman Sabourin, executive director and senior general counsel for the Canadian Judicial Council.

Opponents to the policy and proposed legislation, both in the federal and provincial realm, believe that they go against, in Ontario attorney general Madeleine Meilleur's words, «deeply held views on equality and tolerance for the religious beliefs of everyone in our society,» and are «inconsistent with Canadian values of inclusion and diversity.»

Canadian society, in general, may take issue with particular decisions but as a whole appears to respect the judicial system (although most would probably like it to be more transparent, particularly the process for choosing new judges at almost every level of court).

Bernard LLP is also a leader in the provision of continuing legal education to members of the insurance and maritime industries and legal profession, locally, nationally and internationally, though the Canadian Journal of Insurance Law (as General Editor), Insurance Brokers Association of B.C. (seminars and articles in B.C. Broker magazine), chairing and presenting seminars for Canadian Defence Lawyers, Insurance Institutes of B.C., Northern and Southern Alberta, Canadian Maritime Law Association, the Vancouver Maritime Arbitrators Association, Canadian Institute, Defence Research Institute (U.S., including articles in For The Defence magazine), Canadian Bar Association and Continuing Legal Education Society of B.C., and U.B.C. Law School.

Lawyers, and particularly general counsel, have an important role to play in promoting accountability of Canadian mining companies, said Senator Romeo Dallaire and NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar, who spoke at the Law Society of Upper Canada last night.

Volunteer Lawyer Services is a pro bono legal services program that was initiated in 1995 as a joint initiative of the Canadian Bar Association, Alberta Branch, the Law Society of Alberta, the United Way of Calgary and Area and the Association of General Counsel of Alberta to assist registered charities and not - for - profit organizations who would otherwise not be able to receive these services due to a lack of financial resources.

Rogers, CEO, Stewart McKelvey Montreal: Yves Fortier, chairman emeritus, Ogilvy Renault LLP Toronto: Clay Horner, partner, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Toronto: Paul Copeland, human rights lawyer and former Law Society of Upper Canada bencher Ottawa: Eugene Meehan, partner, Lang Michener LLP and former Canadian Bar Association president Edmonton: Anne McLellan, former attorney general of Canada, now counsel with Bennett Jones LLP and special faculty member at University of Alberta In - house counsel: Melissa Kennedy, general counsel, corporate secretary, and senior vice president corporate affairs, Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan Legal academia: Ian Holloway, dean, University of Western Ontario law school Internal

Critical feminist interrogation of the Canadian Bar Association's Code of Professional Conduct and the Law Society of Upper Canada's Rules of Professional Conduct reveals that lawyers» general right to refuse providing services to clients who can not pay results in adverse discrimination against a group protected by Ontario's Human Rights Code.

Law societies, with law schools, should create a research facility at CanLII, that enables the general practitioner and the lawyer in a remote area, to provide as good a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms argument as any lawyer, anywhere.

There are significant opportunities for Canadian advocates for parents to use the academic research revealed by the conference to promote equal parenting, to advocate the for a Canadian resolution similar to that of the Council of Europe, and to show how equal shared parenting is being successfully implemented in various countries to the benefit of children, parents and society in general.