Questions tagged [canada]
For questions specific to Canada as a whole, or that span multiple provincial and territorial jurisdictions.
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Does Canada Have A Law Against Automatic Software Updates?
The Windows 10 1909 November setup license agreement has a provision which seems to suggest Microsoft must provide Canadians with the ability to entirely disable updates. Is there such a law?
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Negligent supervision in a Canadian graduate university program - legal remedy?
The Faculty of Graduate Studies handbook at my Canadian university provides clear guidelines for what supervisors and committees are expected to do. The supervisor in question has been delinquent with ...
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What would happen if you can't pay because your credit card stopped working? [duplicate]
I'm interested in situations were you pay after you use or consume something (like eating at a restaurant or renting something). What would happen if your credit card stops working before you pay?
In ...
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Can an employee be effectivley fired by making their work really bad?
To my understanding
An employer is allowed to reduce an employees wage without reason
An employer can cancel or reschedule shifts without reason or send an employee home without pay
Canada is not ...
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Are recorded conversations regarded as legally binding contracts?
Situation: there is a cell phone account in my sister's name. However, she does not use any of the lines, and she does not pay for it (payment comes out of my personal credit card automatically). I ...
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Meaning of “costs throughout to” in a court case?
A judge said, "I would therefore dismiss the appeal with costs throughout to the respondent."
Excuse my simple post here. I looked for an answer on google, but could not find any. I would like to ...
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Bailiff refuses to go to court
I am the plaintiff in a case (small claims court Quebec) I hired a bailiff to carry out an execution of judgement he did and seized some property from the defendant. Now the defendant is trying to ...
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Must employer pay extra for entire weekend of working on a holiday or just day?
I sometimes work Sundays. There is a holiday on Monday, it's Thanksgiving. Where I live we get paid extra for working a holiday. Should I get paid extra for working this Sunday? I'm guessing I know ...
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Stealing my property back?
So my sister has a few of my clothes and some personal items that she borrowed from me . She claims I gave her the personal items and I never gave her any of it . I’ve asked multiple times for it back ...
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How much time is allocated for analyzing case law during a trial
In a rather simple trial (driving infringement, penal court - NOT criminal), how much time is allocated to each party to analyze each others case law?
Is it expected to be done during the hearing, ...
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Is there something in littigation for when a party isn't honestly trying to resolve the issue
I had taken my ex-landlord to court and am considering taking him again. He is a very dishonest person. Since court is a formal process, I don't know how to say this.
For example we reached a ...
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What steps should be taken in order to legalise and sell medical software?
So I thought about an idea for a medical software and I made just for fun. It wasn't that good but it was much better than what I'd expected to get. Fast forward a couple months, I made the software a ...
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What is a court order? How is it different than a settlement?
I had brought a case against my ex-landlord. One of the claims was he wouldn't return some property of mine. In the settlement agreement, he said he would make available for pickup my property. He did ...
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Can you sue a person for time spent taking them to court?
I know legal proceedings can be time consuming and stressful. Can a plaintiff sue the defendant for the time and energy involved? Would they need to show something, for example taking time off work to ...
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What laws would be broken if a university professor accepted money in exchange for better grades?
Suppose a student in an ordinary university offered $100 to his professor (or Teaching Assistant) in exchange for a five percentage point improvement in his grade. Suppose the professor/TA accepted it ...
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Do parent's have an obligation to pay for university expenses after divorce?
In Canada/Ontario, if parents are divorced, do the parents' obligations to contribute to a child's university education expenses change based on their relationship?
I'm looking at 2 cases, one where ...
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If party doesn't do what's agreed in settlement, can you sue again or is enforcement the only option?
I filed a dispute with the Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT). A settlement was reached. Two terms of the settlement were
the defendant will make available my property for me to pickup
parties agree ...
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Can an employer reprimand an employee for posting negative reviews on social media?
If an employee posts on social media that a company is bad to work for, can they get fired or reprimanded for it? What if they gave specific examples, like how the employer reduced their wage without ...
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How inherited Property Assets Split in a Divorce in Ontario, Canada
I cannot find any detains on how Ontario law Deals with the splitting of assets in a divorce. I am specifically interested in if their are any exemptions to inherited family property (a farm owned by ...
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Must employer give 2 weeks work if work is shift work and employee gave notice
I work for a company that periodically asks employees what their availability is and assigns shifts based on that. The calendar with the shift information is about at it's end and a new one hasn't ...
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Quoting a case law if original decision cannot be found
Decision X was taken long ago and is not accessible online to the public. There are several (> 10) recent decisions that describe and quote X, and they are available online to the public.
Is it ...
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How to say “ entangled parking space”?
As an official translator, I need to be loyal to the text in such a manner that no words are omitted. In translation of title deeds there’s a section which specifies the metes and bounds of the ...
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Read written testimony instead of witnessing
I am defending myself in a penal case (driving infringement; not a criminal case).
At time of the events, I gave to the police a very detailed written testimony, which is now part of the proof.
For ...
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Canada Elections Climate Change and God
I just saw this BBC news article.
Canada election: Charities warned against climate change ads
Canada's election watchdog has warned environmentalists that saying climate change is real could ...
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Can the court order my retired father, who is a single father, to make more money (Canadian Law) (revised to anonymous) [closed]
(I'm sorry about deleting and re-posting the question, there are family details and the site was attaching my real name. I'm reposting using an email address that isn't linked to me.)
My father was ...
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What happens if parties do not honour a settlement agreement?
Say a settlement agreement was reached where a shopper sued a grocery store over food that gave her food poisoning. If the terms of the settlement agreement were
grocery store shall pay shopper $100
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Does the Residential Tenancies Act apply when renting a room in a multi-bedroom apartment'
I've read through the Nova Scotia Residential Tenancies Act, and my understanding is that if an individual rents a room from the Lease Holder of a multi-bedroom apartment (and the leasee is also ...
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What happens if someone knowingly accepts a contract with some invalid terms?
A dispute arose between me and my ex-landlord. Before any litigation, I told him the things I expected that he wasn't doing. His response was to agree to do them, provided I would agree to various ...
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Have there ever been any cases where someone sued their government for not delivering their passport in a reasonable amount of time?
I am wondering if there have been any cases in Canada that were heard before a court or tribunal, or even if there was any informal dispute that was discussed in any media. Surely many people in the ...
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Can a party demand you not record their phone call?
To my understanding call recording is legal in Canada, even if the other person isn't aware of it. I am going through arbitration, and someone I spoke with said "there is to be no recording of this or ...
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Legal liability for theft of credit card information left in my care with no contract?
Suppose your neighbor asks you to babysit their cat.
The neighbor has to run an errand so they leave it with me.
Someone else breaks into my house and steals the cat, along with its diamond necklace.
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Best way to provide video of landlord doing something he lied about not doing? [closed]
I lived in a rental home where my landlord lived in the same building. The landlord had this notion he could "immediate evict" anyone. He told me if I wasn't out he would replace the locks and remove ...
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Misleading food labelling
What to do if you were violently ill from a product from a huge establishment that had a lone, large green label on the front of the product saying “vegan”, only to find once consuming, it contained ...
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Airline ignoring Montreal Convention [closed]
I flew with Finnair from Moscow to Montreal. My luggage got delayed by 3 days. As per Montreal Convention, I can spend up to 1,131 SDR on necessities as my luggage is missing and the airline is ...
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When is it ilegal to carry opened alcohol in public?
I heard it's technically illegal to have an alcoholic beverage that is not in the same state it was sold in, in public. Does this mean
if a single can of beer is missing from a six pack it is illegal?...
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Immigrating to Canada from the UK - sponsored by a spouse or skilled worker?
My Canadian fiancée is currently living with me here in the UK on a 2 year Tier 5 Working Holiday Visa. We are getting married towards the end of that visa's validity (in Canada). We are currently ...
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Make money with a service that depends on third-party software
I play this video game which is developed by a small company. This game is great but it does not allow online multiplayer, you must play with other people on the same console. Recently, I learned that ...
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When is something considered theft vs free?
My job was to promote something in a grocery store. I happened to cross paths with someone from the bakery and they asked if I wanted a pizza to draw interest in my permission. I said ok. After the ...
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In general should court documents not be disclosed?
I am in Canada and have brought a dispute to the Civil Resolution Tribunal. The defendant has replied. He claims that there are several people (who I know) who are prepared to corroborate his side of ...
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As a website owner, what's my legal requirement to ask for SIN number
We have a job recruitment system that we installed which includes a public website where people can apply for jobs directly on the internet. One of the fields is SIN number that displays by default. ...
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Assets, acquisitions, and creditors
Been doing a lot of research in a few separate fields of law, and I'm trying to understand how the peices combine in the following presenting what legal tools to solve the matter.
Scenario:
If a ...
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Filing a lien if a client is unable to pay
Is it possible to file a lien on the work done as part of the contract if the client is unable to pay for it.
For example, if a contractor writes software for a client, and the client makes no ...
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When is something inadmissible as evidence because it's considered a negotiation?
To my understanding anything can be used as evidence unless a specific law prohibits it. When is negotiating inadmissible as evidence?
My (ex)landlord demanded I move out immediately. I told him I ...
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When can a contract require the agreenment of another contract?
I have seen several contracts that have terms such as "by accepting this offer you agree to sign a NDA/Non-Compete/Anti-harassment/Etc". How can this be fair prior to even seeing the NDA?
I work for ...
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Fraud if a director lies about being unable to pay
Context: Canadian Law; contractor; fraud
Would it be considered fraudulence on behalf of the director (specifically CEO) of a company if they were to lie about being unable to pay a contractor, but ...
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Work for hire as a contractor without payment, can you withhold IP?
Context: Canadian law; contract work; software IP
If a contractor signs a work for hire agreement at the outset of a project and agrees that all work done for a company is the company's IP, can the ...
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Is it bad to have communication with opposing party outside of court?
I started a claim against someone. The level of court does not require lawyers. The defendant rejected all my claims through the court, but contacted me by email saying he wishes to meet in person to ...
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What is the minimum time an employer must give before cancelling work?
I do sporadic work for a company. I had a shift scheduled for over a month. I messaged my manager the day before asking if there's anything else I needed to know. She told me the shift was cancelled. ...
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How to determine which court to apply to when parties are in different areas?
I am considering taking an employer to court. It would be regarding whether or not I'm a contractor or employee (and thus entitled to different benefits).
I am not sure which court I would apply to. ...
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In Canada can employer force employees not to discuss wage?
In Canada can an employer require its employees not to discuss wages (either internal or external of the company)? What if the employee signed a confidentiality agreement where they agreed not to ...
